Brisbane man claiming to be Prince Charles’ love child denies threatening boss

A Brisbane public servant who believes he is the love child of the heir apparent to the British throne has denied telling his boss “to be careful” because “royal authorities” were watching him and he may “go over” a cliff in a car.

A BRISBANE public servant who believes he is the love child of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, claims he has been targeted by another public servant out of hatred for Camilla and affection for Princess Diana.

Caboolture man Simon Dorante-Day, 50, is in the Supreme Court in Brisbane today for a hearing in relation to his 10-month suspension from the state’s Public Safety Business Agency (PSBA).

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Mr Dorante-Day told the court that it was possible that the PSBA complaints manager Margaret Patane had “come after” him “with a cannon” because of his royal parentage.

Simon Dorante-Day has claimed to be the secret son of Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla.

“It is possible that the royal issue is at the root of this, how do I know that Ms Patane is not a Diana lover and a Camilla hater?” Mr Dorante-Day asked Justice Debra Mullins.

“This is what I have copped as (SIC) being Camilla’s illegitimate son,” he said.

“I cop all the things they like to do her, and the fact that she is despised and publicly blamed for all this, I get it from the Diana supporters,” Mr Dorante-Day said.

“Now if I was to go to Ms Patane’s home what would I find, Diana cups?” he asked.

Justice Mullins told Mr Dorante-Day she thought he was “going off track”.

“This is off-track,” she told him.

Court documents state that Ms Patane asked one of Dorante-Day’s superiors in March last year to demand he “immediately desist from mentioning his workplace, the Queensland police service and the “emergency services” in any future dealings with the media”.

He told the court that he had been verbally “attacked” at work ever since he told New Idea magazine that his grandmother worked for Queen Elizabeth and she told him on her deathbed that he was the child of Charles and Camilla, and had been adopted aged 18 months.

He told the publication that he had “support” from “all the emergency services up in Queensland” in his quest to establish his royal parentage.

Mr Dorante-Day has sued Kurt Marsden, the executive director of the Public Service Commission, in the Supreme Court in a bid to return to his job as a “principal technical officer” working on radio communications at an emergency services communications infrastructure development centre in Hamilton.

In earlier submissions, Mr Dorante-Day denied telling his boss “to be careful” because “royal authorities” were watching him.

Mr Dorante-Day has been accused of telling his boss Shane Wootten on May 11 last year in a phone call that if Mr Wootten “continued with victimisation, he was getting into a driverless car heading for a cliff, and would go over the cliff.”

Mr Dorante-Day was suspended from his job on June 1 last year for the alleged remarks.

In court today Mr Dorante-Day said he only told Mr Wootten that “he was being watched by his boss” and not the British royal family.

Mr Dorante-Day claimed in court today that a lengthy night-time phone call to Buckingham Palace that had ended at 4am had triggered some of the workplace tension at his Hamilton office because he slept in and didn't go to work.

“The royal issue has been an issue in the workplace,” Mr Dorante-Day told the court.

Shortly before lunchtime today, Justice Mullins reserved her decision.