Prince Charles and Camilla were driving through the streets of London when an angry crowd attacked the car in which they were riding. Shocked and terrified, Camilla was stunned.
Prince Charles and Camilla Car Attacked
Student protesters are taking to the streets in London because of tuition hikes. Not only is tuition going up at universities, but it is also set to triple. Protests have been on going, but today, the bill passed and became law when Parliament voted for the increase.
Protesters became unruly, and desperate when they heard the news.  It was a terrifying scene, and must be terribly out of control for the crowds to even get close to the Prince and Camilla.
This looks like a scene from middle ages, and not modern day London. Parliament passed the bill into law today, and immediately drew reaction from students who would be affected. The crowd threw paint at the Prince's car.
How were they able to get so near? Neither the Prince nor Camilla was injured, but also they were deeply upset. Can you imagine the driver?
With video of the attack, protesters will be made to pay for an attack on the royal family, but this very troubling as all over the world economies are suffering. You can kind of see the protesters point, as the Prince rides by in his Rolls Royce, and students may not get the chance to go to a university that would draw an angry reaction.
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Comments: 19
It was the same in all the other protests in the last few weeks.
Funny thing is, isn't it Parliament that makes all those decisions... with the Prime Minister leading them. The Queen isn't really in the loop of approving things.
I think if there is resentment it's how much the royal family owns and gets paid each year to attend functions and wave to their subjects.
The irony in it, is that from what I understand the royal family is more German than English... and changed their name to Windsor after the Windsor Castle to give themselves a non Germanic last name.
It was one way to keep people from invading each other when the "rulers" intermarried... But when others replaced the "ruling family" it all made no difference. Amazing to me that the "blue bloods" would rather have their children marry the children of foreign rulers, than their "commoners" or subjects...
The way of the Monarchy is going to fall by the wayside at one point. And as much as Camilia so desired to marry Charles, I wonder if she is rethinking her quest to one day be crowned Queen.
Its true that they came from German stock and that they changed the name to Windsor, but that was during the world war 1 in 1914-1918 I would say that makes them more British than German now, notice I said British and not English, England is but one of four countrys that make up the United Kingdom.
The Queen might be to some people just a figurehead and to some extent she is, but she still has to approve the Government, protocol dictates that the our Monarch has to dissolve her Parliament and protocol dictates that she opens Parliament . This year she colluded with the present Government in making sure that Brown the then Prime Minister did not resign leaving Britain without a Government for a few days.
Many persons in Britain love her majesty, if that seems corny I am sorry, I am afraid its what most of us do, we have had a King or Queen for hundreds of years, when we got rid of one by lopping of his head we soon put one back on the throne in just a few short years, with a few rules changed of course.
Armed forces members have to swear an oath of allegiance to our Monarch and not to our country, as do the members of our Parliament and police.
They will be with us for quite some time its as simple as that.
I know that the people love their queen. I have heard reports of grumbling about how much the Royal Family gets.
I only said what I said about the Monarchy falling because in a lot of countries around the world, the Monarchies are gone.... and many times the "royals" were either killed or fled. Though I was more talking about the progression of things. Over time things change and I've seen too many things happen in my lifetime I never ever thought would happen, but they did.
You and your generation may love and value the Queen, but will the younger generation and if things get real bad economically, well history shows what happens then.
In America 20 or 30 years ago there would have been a big outcry over the government handing out billions of dollars with no list, no accountability...and yet not too long ago it was done and no one says much about it. Didn't think that was possible, at all.
I do not love or value the Queen - I am a Scots nat. But, I can't stand it when people write stuff that shows they know little or nothing about our succession rules!
Oh, and I don't like the fact that so many people on Gather choose disrespect the rules we have in place in the UK - I would not say that the USA has crazy rules regarding how you elect your presidents, even if I believed it.
How YOU chose your leader is your business - how we choose OURS and the protocol used is ours.
People do grumble and I can see why when you have people like Prince Andrew who we call air miles Andy from the fact that he clocks up many miles on air craft all paid for by our taxes.
However no one notices the work that quite a few of them do for Britain, no one works harder for Britain than Charles sister her work load in a year is tremendous, and that does not include her work that she does for various charities. The Queen no matter how we look at it works every day and will do until the day that she dies or is unable to due to illness, no mean feat for a an elderly woman who is in her 80s, OK she has all the help that she needs, but so does any President.
Her Husband in his 90s also has a good work load.
Do we get value for our money, well what do tourists do when they come to London, they make a be line to her residence and to see all the pomp and ceremony that comes with our Royal Family. What is said to Presidents when they meet her at the state dinners in the way of trade? we may never know. But you can bet she is value for the money that we pay out.
Don't be too sure that the monarchy will disappear. It has held sway in the UK and other European countries for thousands of years - longer than the USA has been an entity!
Many people in Britain still feel like I do, far more than would like them to kicked out on their asses as you quite delicately put it Nick, what we don't like is the smaller Royals that are a waste of space who free load their way through life.
But as a whole we would rather we had a Monarch, as I said earlier we got rid of one a long time ago and we soon put one back on the throne.
I think we pay the Queen around £35,000,000 a year that pays for all the staff that she has, the upkeep of the Royal residences all the official dinners that she has to have for state engagements such as when heads of state such as when the President of the United States comes to Britain along with all the other heads of state.
If say we had a president we would still have to pay for all of what I have stated, we would still have to pay for all the homes that they use, as an example who pays for your presidents home the white house and his other retreat Camp David and how much does it cost for the up keep of the President and Air Force one and the helicopters that are used.
It comes out of taxes just like it does for our Queen, the only difference is that you can get rid of your head of state while we have to put up with ours until she breathes her last, but like you we still get another head of state that we still have to pay for.