CBS News - The Investiture of Prince Charles - 1969-07-01
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[0:01] I, Charles, Prince of Wales, to become
[0:05] your lege man of life and limb, and of
[0:08] earthly worship, and faith and truth I
[0:11] will bear unto thee to live and die
[0:14] against all manner of folks." Charles
[0:17] Philip Arthur George is raised up by his
[0:19] mother, Elizabeth II, exchanges the kiss
[0:22] of faulty as he becomes the 21st English
[0:24] Prince of Wales.
[0:26] >> This is a CBS News special. The
[0:30] investature of Prince Charles in New
[0:33] York. CBS News correspondent Harry
[0:35] Rezner.
[0:36] >> There is with everything these days a
[0:38] sort of generation gap. And to those of
[0:40] us whose childhood toys were castles and
[0:43] soldiers on horseback and queens and
[0:45] carriages instead of astronauts and
[0:47] rockets, what took place today in the
[0:49] resort town of Carnaran on the north
[0:51] coast of Wales was as marvelous and
[0:54] unbelievable as it will be for our
[0:56] children on that day later this month
[0:58] when astronaut Neil Armstrong steps out
[1:00] on the moon and says whatever it is one
[1:03] says when one steps out on the moon for
[1:05] the first time. This is the toy world.
[1:09] The queen in her carriage drawn by
[1:10] matched grays. The soldiers on horseback
[1:12] and gleaming armor. The castle and the
[1:14] battlements.
[1:17] And this was Cararvin today. The castle
[1:19] and the battlements. The soldiers on
[1:21] horseback and gleaming armor. The queen
[1:24] in her carriage drawn by matched graves.
[1:28] But this is 1969 and a youth today threw
[1:30] an egg at the royal carriage and was
[1:32] nearly lynched. Policemen in the jittery
[1:34] town of Carnarvin were armed. an unusual
[1:37] thing in the United Kingdom. And they
[1:39] chased down everything that look