Man charged after egg thrown towards King Charles

A 28-year-old antheral has been charged with a nationalist bid offence aft an ovum was allegedly thrown astatine the King during a walkabout successful Luton.

Bedfordshire Police did not sanction the antheral implicit the incidental which happened extracurricular Luton Town Hall connected Tuesday.

He has been bailed to look astatine Luton Magistrates' Court successful January.

The King was initially steered distant from crowds by extortion officers during the incident, but continued the sojourn soon after.

It came conscionable weeks aft a 23-year-old pupil was arrested aft eggs were thrown astatine the King and Queen Consort during a sojourn to York.

The BBC's royal analogous Sean Coughlan, who was successful Luton, described a flurry of enactment extracurricular the municipality hallway erstwhile the evident ovum throwing happened.

While helium did not spot the egg, our analogous said the King had been undertaking 1 of his trademark walkabouts "friendly, adjacent up and with tons of handshakes and a oversea of camera phones".

The King went connected to conscionable assemblage leaders, including from the Ghana Society, the Royal British Legion and the Luton Town shot academy, arsenic good arsenic officially opening the Guru Nanak Gurdwara temple.

Later, helium boarded the DART (Direct Air-Rail Transit) - a caller airdrome shuttle which volition link radical travelling from Luton Airport Parkway presumption to the adjacent terminal.