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"Charles, Prince Charles"

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Jul 15, 2024
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Republican Presidents like Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, and Teddy Roosevelt have carried on impressively after being shot, much as Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivered her scheduled address hours after having her hotel blown up by the IRA in 1984. But you can’t beat the House of Windsor for keeping a stiff upper lip during assassination attempts.

In 1994, King Charles III, then the Prince of Wales, was attacked in Australia by a man who fired two shots from a few feet away:

Charles didn't do any fist pumps when the gunman didn’t murder him because he had important cuff-shooting to do.

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