Amid boos, a man was detained by the police. “This country was built on the blood of slaves,” he yelled.
King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, were attacked with eggs this Wednesday at noon during their visit to medieval York in Great Britain, by a lone protester, what right away he was detained by the police.
“This country was built on the blood of slavery,” the protester shouted from the crowd, as the sovereigns descended from their Bentley bordeaux to greet the subjects.
The royal couple had been received by the city leaders when three eggs flew through the air, one after another, without hitting the target. One of the projectiles fell centimeters from the shoe of the sovereign, who looked confused from where the attack came from.
It was three eggs that flew. Charles III looked at the floor, asked something of the leaders who were receiving him and continued his walk. An officer guarding him said he had to move fast to protect himself.
Television cameras recorded the moment three eggs crashed to the ground, right next to where Charles III and Camilla were shaking hands with a group of citizens in the Micklegate Bar area of York.
Four police officers detained the protester, covered him with their bodies, and then transferred him to a stopped police car. He was a young man with long hair, a dark jacket and an earring.
People began to sing “God save the King” and “Shame on you” when the assailant was taken into custody, who was still screaming.
Charles III continued with his ceremony to receive the keys to the city of York from its authorities. The last visit to that city had been made by Queen Elizabeth II, her mother, in 2012.
Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
This time they came to inaugurate a statue of the deceased sovereign, the first to be installed since her death. With the queen consort in a green topcoat and black gloves and the king in his gray suit with white stripes, the royal couple continued their tour.
no background contemporaries in Great Britain of an attack with eggs to a sovereign. It is the first case of an attack on the King and Queen of the United Kingdom in their country. But not outside.
In 2001 in Latvia, a girl attacked the then Prince Charles when he was protesting against the war and in Sydney in 1994 they fired two thunder bullets.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were egged on in Dresden, Germany, in 1992. A city that had been completely destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II. They were also whistled by the crowd as a protest as he entered the cathedral.
Last month, two “Just Stop Oil” activists had thrown two chocolate cakes in the face of the wax figure of King Charles III at London’s Madame Tussauds museum, with the slogan that the British Government “stop the new oil and gas licences.
“The science is clear, the demand is simple: stop new oil and gas licences,” the activists proclaimed as they threw the cakes at the sculpture, which is surrounded by those of other members of the British royal family.
Eight months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III and Camilla will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on Saturday May 6, Buckingham Palace said.
The coronation will be in charge of the Archbishop of Canterbury because it is a solemn religious celebration, where the king is enthroned, blessed and consecrated. By that date, the king will have turned 74 and will be the oldest sovereign to come to the throne in Britain.
Paris, correspondent