December 10, 2010

ROYAL ATTACK PROMPTS QUESTIONS ON UK SECURITY

LONDON -- It was a wrong-place, wrong-time brush with danger: Protesting students - some chanting "Off with their heads!" - attacked Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they rode in their vintage Rolls-Royce to a charity event at a London theater.

 
There was no quick answer Friday, amid scathing criticism from security experts and calls for officials to be fired The royal couple were unharmed but visibly shaken Thursday after the angry protesters, pumped up by earlier scuffles with police, surrounded their luxurious dark limo, smashing a rear window and splashing it with white paint He said the royal couple should have taken a different route to the theater, or waited until the streets were safe and clear of protesters, or simply sent their regrets and canceled.
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