My prince is peck for more
NOT SO CHARMING Lauren looks baffled by Charles’ quip KISS-TORY With article SHE let him go nearly 40 years ago, so Leila Sherwood wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice when she was reunited with Prince Charles.
Leila first met the heir to the throne in 1979 as a 14-year-old, when she skipped school to see him at Cairns Airport – and made headlines by stealing a kiss from the young prince.
And yesterday the 54-year-old showed him the newspaper clipping from four decades ago, as the prince, 69, left church in Queensland. She said: “He held my hand and said, ‘Bless you’ – I didn’t want to let go.”
But later Aussie basketball great Lauren Jackson, 36, looked less than charmed by Charles’ court side banter as they watched a match together at the Commonwealth Games.
A petition objecting to plans to rename the Second Severn Crossing The Prince of Wales Bridge has attracted 25,000 signatures.