No egg hit Charles, and he was taken away by the supervisors. (File)
London:
A 21-year-old man was fined Friday after admitting to throwing an egg at King Charles III during a royal walk last year.
Harry May, 21, of Luton, north London, was fined £100 ($122) and had to pay £85 costs after pleading guilty to a public order offence.
The way King Charles didn’t even break a sweat for that egg-throwing man is my reward.😂😂The Royal Family is made up of things stronger than politicians, thats what sure. There will always be a , so
pic.twitter.com/aKcbuWYtm4– Canellecitadelle (@Canellelabelle) November 9, 2022
The incident happened as Charles, 74, was in Luton on December 6 to meet community leaders and inaugurate a new Sikh temple.
Prosecutor Jason Seetal said the egg thrown by May fell near Charles as he chatted with locals.
He said May told police he threw it because “he believed that the king visiting a town like Luton, an area of poverty and deprivation, was a bad place”.
“No matter what disagreement you have with someone, the solution is not to throw bullets at them,” Chief Justice Paul Goldspring told Mrs May during a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
The judge said he accepted that May did not attempt to throw the egg at the king but said the attack was “planned” and “targeted” on Charles.
The attack comes less than a month after eggs were thrown at Charles and his wife Camilla in York City, northern England, in November.
No egg hit Charles, and he was taken away by the supervisors.
Police arrested the alleged attacker, 23-year-old college student Patrick Thelwell.
He was later released on bail on the condition that he not bring the eggs in public except when shopping.
Thelwell will appear in court in York in northern England next Friday.
Charles became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September. She was buried after a state funeral and 10 days of national mourning.
But there was some protest against the hereditary principle of the monarchy by which Charles assumed the position of head of state.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and was automatically generated from the aggregate feed.)
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