The King and Queen were rushed out of an open-air expo in Jersey today due to a security scare.
Charles and Camilla were told to cut short their third engagement of the day at Weighbridge Place during their visit to the Channel Island and were taken into the nearby Pomme D’or hotel.
After a brief hiatus of around 20 minutes, the King and Queen were taken back outside to meet local schoolchildren before being welcomed as guests to a tea party. A royal source said: “There was a small issue of concern, an investigation turned out to be a false alarm, every precaution was taken and the programme resumed shortly afterwards.”
Eamon Fenlon, managing director of Jersey Dairy, had just served the Queen an ice cream from a van before she was ushered out of the expo. Mr Fenlon said: “I had just given the Queen an ice cream and I turned back to get one myself before we had a chat. But when I turned back round she had been whisked off. Some of the other people told me it was a drone but whether that’s official or not I don’t know.”