Coronation: Royal fan held for 13 hours after being mistaken for protester

A royal instrumentality who was mistaken for a protester and detained by constabulary astatine the Coronation has spoken astir her ordeal.

Alice Chambers was handcuffed and held for 13 hours erstwhile officers arrested Just Stop Oil protesters she happened to beryllium lasting adjacent to connected the Mall.

The designer told BBC Newsnight she was handcuffed, fingerprinted and questioned successful a constabulary station.

The constabulary accidental they are reviewing the incidental and trying to found the afloat details of what happened.

The 36-year-old - who archetypal told her communicative to the one newspaper - said she was spent hours successful handcuffs successful the backmost of a constabulary van contempt repeated attempts to explicate the concern to officers.

"I was conscionable sitting determination waiting for the Coronation to begin. Next I realised the constabulary had swooped successful and handcuffed a full heap of people," Ms Chamber said.

"I tried to accidental thing I could to accidental I wasn't portion of that radical [of protestors] but thing could said that made a difference.

"I gave them my interaction details. I showed them my ID and thing seemed to beryllium capable to beryllium said that made a quality really."

Describing however officers yet questioned her aft fractional a time successful custody, Ms Chambers said: "They asked maine 'what were you doing connected the Mall?' I explained everything and they looked astatine each different successful shock."

"It's conscionable been truthful shocking, and precise emotional. It's not thing you ever expect, to find yourself successful a jailhouse compartment for a play of time," she added.

"Really you would deliberation that this should ne'er happen. Clearly determination are processes that request to beryllium enactment successful place, oregon that weren't followed.

"No-one should endure an extended play nether arrest, conscionable due to the fact that they're an guiltless bystander."

Ms Chambers, who is primitively from Australia but lives successful London, was released without immoderate further enactment and missed the Coronation celebrations successful their entirety.

She accused the Met Police of "finger pointing" aft it responded by saying the serviceman who arrested her had been drafted into London from Lincolnshire Police.

Ms Chambers said the Met "ultimately took over" from the arresting serviceman and detained her. She has lodged a ceremonial complaint.

A Met spokesperson said: "The arresting serviceman was from Lincolnshire Police and the ailment has truthful been passed to the applicable unit to investigate.

"The Met volition assistance by providing immoderate applicable accusation they require."

Chief Inspector Simon Outen from the nonrecreational standards section astatine Lincolnshire Police, said: "We person present received a ailment and we are reviewing the incident, and we are successful interaction with the complainant to found the afloat details of her allegations."

Policing astir the Coronation has travel nether scrutiny aft the Met expressed regret implicit apprehension of the caput of anti-monarchy group Republic and 5 different protesters connected the greeting of the ceremony, contempt them having coordinated a ineligible protestation with the force.

In total, 64 radical were arrested successful London during the Coronation policing operation.

Police said 52 of these related to concerns radical were going to disrupt the event. Four radical person truthful acold been charged.