Prince Edward is denying those London tabloid reports that he is planning to get married, and he has asked reporters and photographers to back off.

The 29-year-old prince made his appeal for more privacy in letters to newspaper editors.There has been widespread speculation that Edward would soon announce his engagement to public relations executive Sophie Rhys-Jones, 28.

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"I am taking this unusual step of writing to you directly in the hope of stopping your reporters and photographers from destroying that part of my life that I am entitled to regard as private and, more importantly, Sophie's life," the prince wrote.

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