Well that’s the conversation-starter sorted out when the King meets President Trump this time tomorrow. For both heads of state belong to the same exclusive club: world leaders who have come under attack in public – and survived.
In the King’s case, it was during his 1994 tour of Australia that a gunman came charging through the crowd in a Sydney park firing wildly at the royal dais.
No one knew that the rounds were blanks as the then-Prince of Wales calmly stood his ground while his protection officer, Colin Trimming, jumped in front of him.
The attacker – a young man who,
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