A 21-year-old man was fined on Friday after he admitted throwing an egg at King Charles III during a royal tour last year.
Harry May, 21, from Luton, north London, was fined £100 ($122) and ordered to pay £85 costs after admitting a public order offence.
The incident happened when Charles, 74, was in Luton on December 6 to meet community leaders and open a new Sikh temple.
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Charles visits with ‘bad taste’
Prosecutor Jason Seetal said the egg May threw landed near Charles while he was talking to a local resident.
May said he told the police he threw it because “he believed the king visiting a town like Luton, which is a poor and poor area, was in bad taste”.
“Anything that someone disagrees with, the way to resolve it is not to throw a projectile,” chief justice Paul Goldspring said in May during a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
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The magistrate said he accepted that May had not tried to hit the monarch with the egg but said the attack was “premeditated” and “targeted” by Charles.
The attack comes less than a month after several eggs were thrown at Charles and his wife Camilla in the city of York, in northern England, in November.
None of the eggs attacked Charles, and he was chased away by the minders.
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Next court appearance
Police detained the alleged attacker, 23-year-old university student Patrick Thelwell.
He was later released on bail on the condition that he not carry eggs in public except when shopping.
Thelwell will appear in court in York in the north of England next Friday.
Charles became king on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September. He was buried after a state funeral and 10 days of national mourning.
But there was some protest against the hereditary principle of the monarchy where Charles took over as head of state.
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