Right royal barney over Brisbane’s ‘spare heir’

A BRISBANE public servant who believes he is Prince Charles’ love child claims he was suspended from his job in “retaliation” for questions over his royal bloodline.

Simon Dorante-Day pictured leaving the Supreme Court, Brisbane, last week. Picture: AAP/Josh Woning

A BRISBANE public servant who believes he is Prince Charles’ love child claims he was suspended from his job in “retaliation” for questions over his royal bloodline.

Caboolture man Simon Dorante-Day has asked the Supreme Court to review his suspension on June 1, alleging in documents that it was “retaliation” for “the question of … (his) paternity”.

The 50-year-old has appeared in women’s magazines claiming to be the illegitimate son of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

In a letter suspending him from duty as a “technical project officer” with the state’s Public Safety Business Agency, he was told that it was for telling his boss “that he needed to be careful” and was “under scrutiny by authorities”.

He has asked the court to block “any further investigation” of him by the “Queensland Fixated Threat Assess­ment Centre”.

The letter from the general manager of human resources Kurt Marsden to Mr Dorante-Day says the PSBA has received a complaint about Mr Dorante-Day’s alleged “inappropriate workplace behaviour”.

“You have demonstrated threatening behaviour towards your superior by indicating that he was under scrutiny by authorities and that he needed to be careful,” Mr Marsden wrote in the letter, filed in court.

“You have raised your voice on several occasions against your supervisor where other employees were able to hear,” the letter states.

“You have shown disregard and disrespect to your supervisor and other employees.

“Until this matter is resolved, I have decided that you should not remain in your ­current workplace, as I hold concerns about the welfare of other employees,” Mr Marsden states.

Mr Dorante-Day complained to the Crime and Corruption Commission in January alleging that two of his bosses took credit for his work in a report outlining the design for a Cairns and Townsville Microwave Network Project. Mr Dorante-Day states in his application to the court that his two bosses “changed the author of the document” in order to “gain them respect for the design work and idea”.

Mr Dorante-Day said that his grandmother worked for Queen Elizabeth and told him on her deathbed he was the child of Charles and Camilla, and had been adopted aged 18 months.