Reporter Matt Wilkinson hands over the poison pen letters about the Duchess of Cornwall, inset, to Trowbridge police (30473/2)CHIPPENHAM NEWS: SICK hate mail sent to the Chippenham News has been handed over to help police investigate threats made against the Duchess of Cornwall.

Camilla and husband Prince Charles have received almost 1,000 poison pen letters opposing the royal wedding.

Many were posted to the Duchess's home in Reybridge near Lacock, Highgrove in Gloucestershire and Clarence House in London.

Some of the more threatening and personal letters were passed on to police.

On Wednesday, the Chippenham News submitted the anti-Camilla hate mail it received to Trowbridge police.

A police spokesman said: "Wiltshire Police confirms that they are investigating the sending of inappropriate mail through the post to HRH the Duchess of Cornwall.

"The investigation is on-going and as a consequence it is inappropriate to comment any further."

The spokesman said police were "grateful" to receive the letters from us.

One letter we received accused the Duchess of being "revolting" while another referred to her as "destroying the Prince's marriage".

Another letter said: "Parker Bowles is nothing more than an old **********, attention seeking, spoilt, childish with a huge ego on the biggest ego trip, knowing she can easily manipulate her toy boy the Prince of Wales."

An unsigned letter, allegedly from a registrar, said "she lacks morals and decency".

A further vindictive letter posted to the Chippenham News said: "Is Mrs Parker Bowles going to prove she is the greedy, manipulative, attention seeking ***** who tortured and tormented a royal princess in order to replace her and enjoy the limelight, privileges, money and luxury of monarchy."

Chippenham News editor, Andy Sambidge chose not to print the letters as we believed the correspondents' names and addresses were fakes.

The nine letters were posted from Chippenham, Corsham, Trowbridge, Tetbury and Weston-super-Mare.

In the two months since the royal engagement was announced 908 hate mail letters were sent to Camilla Parker Bowles from around the country.

But a spokesman for the Duchess and Prince said a vast majority in their postbag of 25,000 letters were supportive of the marriage.

Spokesman Amanda Foster said: "We are never going to get 100 per cent support. People are entitled to their opinion and write in to us on a regular basis.

"Let's just say the minority of our postbag are just not as positive and in this situation having 95 or 99 per cent being supportive, is very positive."