Queen's Fear: Prince Charles' Investiture

0:00It's April 9th, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and spotlight-ready. I'm Cory with the story. Queen Elizabeth II faced her toughest moment as Monarch right before Prince Charles's investiture in 1969. Royal biographer Robert Hardman revealed she was gripped by fear over threats to her son during the big ceremony at Carnarvin Castle, a tradition, dating back centuries to honor the Prince of Wales. This wasn't just nerves, Welsh Separatists were bombing sites across the area, even killing people in the lead-up and on the day itself. The whole event felt like a powder keg, with security on high alert. She could handle risk to herself, but not to Charles. Hardman says the pressure built so much that after the ceremony went off without a hitch on July 1st, she headed back to London, cancelled all her. Duties for a full week and crashed in bed, with insiders called nervous exhaustion, the closest she ever came to breaking down. Adding to the global tension, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated

1:04just a year before in America, making 19, 68 at Nightmare Year worldwide. Fast forward, and Prince William skipped any investiture when he became Prince of Wales after her passing, showing how these old rituals have evolved, with the Times.