The short gunge and sides that made Charles so glum
PRINCE CHARLES was just four years old when he was allowed to spend 20 minutes inside Westminster Abbey to watch the moment his mother was crowned.
But his strongest recollection of the day – ‘aside from a vague memory of glorious music and coronets doffed in unison’ – is that the Palace barber cut his hair too short and plastered it down with ‘the most appalling gunge’.
He told a BBC documentary for the 60th anniversary in 2013: ‘I remember my Mama coming, you know, up, when we were being bathed as children, wearing the crown. It was quite funny – practising.’ Princess Anne, aged two at the time, was deemed too young to attend the ceremony, which she later described as ‘frustrating’.