GOOD TIME CHARLIE TAKES THE WHEEL IN HAVANA
IT WAS almost as if the royals were still back in Britain.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla drove a classic British car through the streets of Havana and visited a statue of John Lennon on their second day in Cuba.
They borrowed a 1953 MG, owned by a local Cuban car club member, and drove to a park that hosts a statue of Lennon that draws thousands of tourists a year. To add to the British flavour, a local rock band played Beatles songs at the Yellow Submarine bar.
The couple strolled around the park, sat on a park bench next to the statue of Lennon, and talked with local residents and British residents of Havana. Though Fidel Castro banned Beatles music from Cuba during the Fab Four’s heyday in the mid-1960s, he came to admire Lennon’s antiwar and pro-working class politics and inaugurated the park in 2002.