Trigger warning: The following article mentions suicide.
As with most royal tours, his visit was a strategic one and not just for fun.
The structure couldn’t handle the pressure, and the floor collapsed.
This was, however, a PR stunt.
The encounter instantly gave Charles the sex appeal his PR team thought he lacked.
The queen was greeting members of the public when 17-year-old Christopher John Lewis tried to shoot her.
The truth was that Lewis had tried to assassinate the queen.
Lucky for her majesty, he had shoddy aim.
To make matters worse, the prince didn’t exactly accept responsibility for the comment.
Yeah, that happened.
My eyes are round," Shea added.
Tact is one thing the prince lacked on this trip.
Then there was the couple’s 1992 tour, which made their marital troubles all the more evident.
“Their eyes never met.
There was no physical contact.
It was as if they were two strangers,” royal correspondent James Whittaker revealed via theMirror.
“They arrived in Korea with orders to present the image of a loving couple.
Instead, stony-faced, they ignored each other, not even exchanging a look,” Whittaker added.
This, Powell calls “a poignant statement of her isolation.”
Anne fell more gracefully than most we have to give her that.
“No, don’t do that, thank you.
Grabbing me round my… (inaudible) won’t help.
I’m perfectly capable of getting myself up,” Anne was heard saying.
It doesn’t appear to have been inappropriate in any way, however.
An “ancient” practice?
When the documentary was released, this bit of info really got people talking.
Royal experts criticized the couple for not engaging with the press during this tour, specifically Prince Harry.
Given the circumstances, one can’t really blame Harry for giving the press the cold shoulder.
The couple went about their public engagements amid protests and widespread criticism aimed at the monarchy.
Some claimed that all the royal couple managed to achieve was to remind people of colonialism.
Photographs of children reaching out toward Catherine and William from behind a chainlink fence especially raised some eyebrows.
