The Royal Treatment

The Prince and Princess of Wales with Prince William and Prince Harry on the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia, Toronto, Oct. 27. 1991.

The Prince and Princess of Wales with Prince William and Prince Harry on the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia, Toronto, Oct. 27. 1991. Photo by Tim Graham, Getty Images

When Prince Charles came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 in the King카지노 게임 컬렉션s town, the day dawned cool and crisp, as you카지노 게임 컬렉션d expect on the north shore of Lake Ontario three days before Halloween. By 8 a.m., the temperature stood at four degrees. Sweater weather. And before the day was over, the future King Charles III would have a new Fair Isle jumper knitted in Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s tricolour to ward off the chill on the forecastle of the Royal Yacht Britannia anchored in Kingston Harbour. But more on that later.

There was mist off the lake the morning of Oct. 28, 1991, though not enough to shroud the midnight-blue hull and three proud masts of the Britannia from students glancing out the windows at Waldron Tower.

The ship had arrived from Toronto sometime during the night, bearing not only the monarch-in-waiting and his fairytale princess, but their sons, William, nine, and Harry, seven. The boys would stay on board as their parents attended a whirlwind of events during a day-long visit to Kingston. Though not all the day카지노 게임 컬렉션s activities would be at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, it was the sesquicentennial of the university, chartered by Charles카지노 게임 컬렉션 great-great-great-grandmother Victoria in 1841, that had earned Kingston a spot on the royal itinerary.

And as with other stops on the royal tour, Kingston seemed to be less excited about the presence of the heir to the throne than about the possibility of catching a glimpse of his charming wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. When the couple had visited Sudbury a few days earlier, Diana카지노 게임 컬렉션s visit to a cancer treatment centre and her warm and unaffected interaction with patients had been the story. The media duly reported Charles카지노 게임 컬렉션 tour of a nickel mine, but, as CBC카지노 게임 컬렉션s Kevin Newman said at the time, 카지노 게임 컬렉션it was Diana카지노 게임 컬렉션s tour that won the hearts of the people.카지노 게임 컬렉션

That would change a bit in Kingston. The prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s tour of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s that day would win him admiration from students, faculty, and the media for the passion of his commitments and his courtly manner.

A crowd of curious onlookers 카지노 게임 컬렉션 students, faculty, and townsfolk 카지노 게임 컬렉션 began to gather early outside Grant Hall, where the prince and princess were expected by mid-morning to attend a special convocation. Charles was to receive an honorary law degree and give the keynote address. A phalanx of yellow-jacketed Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s student constables was already in position on 카지노게임사이트 Avenue, among them 20-year-old Karen Logan, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션94.

She and as many as 100 other student constables had been briefed by RCMP officers that morning. They were accustomed to performing crowd control duties at football games and Alfie카지노 게임 컬렉션s Pub, but this was different. They were told to defer to official security agents if any issues arose. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We were there mostly for our bodies and highly visible yellow jackets,카지노 게임 컬렉션 remembers Ms. Logan, now a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s governance officer.

Outside the perimeter defined by the student constables, but near the front of the spectators, was Sherri Ferris, then four years into her job as a custodian at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and five months pregnant. She and the rest of the custodial staff had been busy for more than a week putting an extra shine on the campus sites the prince would visit. For days, she had been busy polishing every glass surface at the John Deutsch 카지노게임사이트 Centre (JDUC), including every pane of the building카지노 게임 컬렉션s massive oak doors. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I just made it sparkle,카지노 게임 컬렉션 recalls Ms. Ferris, who is still on the job 31 years later.

  • The Prince and Princess of Wales arriving in Kingston and greeting the crowd that waits, October 1991.

    The Prince and Princess of Wales arrive in Kingston. Photo by A/PA Images, Getty Images

  • Prince Charles stands in front of a microphone speaking to a crowd at Queen's, October 1991.

    Photo courtesy of Queen's 카지노게임사이트 Archives

  • Prince Charles shakes a man's hand as he accepts his Queen's doctorate of laws in October 1991.

    Prince Charles receives an honorary doctorate of laws, October 1991. Photo by Canadian Press

After all the preparation, she dearly wanted to see the prince and princess make their entrance to Grant Hall and arrived early with work colleagues. Her mother카지노 게임 컬렉션s family had come from Britain, and Ms. Ferris was fascinated by the monarchy. 카지노 게임 컬렉션For me, it was huge that they were coming to the university and I worked there, I was part of it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.

Sometime after 11 a.m., the royal motorcade came down 카지노게임사이트 Avenue. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I can remember how excited I was that day to see Princess Di,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Ms. Ferris. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The bumblebee dress. I remember all the details.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Meanwhile, Farah Mohamed, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션93, was already inside the neo-Romanesque grandeur of Grant Hall. She was one of 900 or so to receive a coveted invitation to the convocation and, for the life of her, she can카지노 게임 컬렉션t remember why. Was she someone카지노 게임 컬렉션s plus-one? Did she win some kind of lottery? Regardless, the invite would provide Ms. Mohamed with her first look at the man who would become her boss 31 years later. 

The prince spoke of many things in his convocation speech that day 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Canadian unity, the soul-affirming powers of good architecture, and, of course, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 150th birthday. But it was the prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s comments on the importance of educating and providing opportunities for the young, and of finding an environmentally sensitive and sustainable model of economic development, that resonated with Ms. Mohamed.

After Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, she would pursue a career in politics, then found an international organization to empower young women and, in 2017, become the CEO of the Malala Fund, founded by Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to champion every girl카지노 게임 컬렉션s right to education. She would later serve as COO of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s Forest Trust, a company promoting a nature-based path to net-zero carbon emissions.

She was one of 900 or so to receive a coveted invitation to the convocation... the invite would provide Ms. Mohamed with her first look at the man who would become her boss 31 years later.

More recently 카지노 게임 컬렉션 in fact, just days before the man she heard speak at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s that October ascended the throne 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Ms. Mohamed was named CEO of Prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s Trust Canada, whose founder and president is His Majesty The King. One of six such organizations internationally, Prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s Trust Canada focuses on creating uplifting opportunities for young people, assisting veterans to start their own businesses, and providing a sustainable future for Canada.

The prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s passion at the convocation touched her, she says, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션s no surprise that the path she took after graduation led her to Prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s Trust Canada. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not a coincidence,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Rather, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s a very nice fit.카지노 게임 컬렉션

After the ceremony, the prince waded back into the crowd while his wife departed to attend events in town. 카지노 게임 컬렉션He stopped and spoke to someone in the crowd right behind me,카지노 게임 컬렉션 student constable Karen Logan recalls. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t have a personal interaction with him, but I was there.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Jenny Corlett, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션94, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션95, was in class during all the royal hubbub. She had switched from arts to science that year and couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t afford to skip lectures. But she knew her Aunt Mabel was uniquely involved in the festivities and about to make Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s history. Again.

Mabel Corlett, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션60, was the first woman to receive a degree in geology from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, and the Geology department카지노 게임 컬렉션s first female professor in 1969. Now she had created what would become a kind of icon of the royal visit 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and it had nothing to do with rocks or minerals.

After stepping away from academic life at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s five years earlier, Dr. Corlett had launched a knitting supply business; the Wool Room sold patterns and the means to make them. For the university카지노 게임 컬렉션s sesquicentennial, she had designed a Fair Isle sweater in Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s tricolour. 카지노 게임 컬렉션She got permission to use the different motifs from the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s coat of arms,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says her niece: 카지노 게임 컬렉션the Q, the thistle, clover, books.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Mabel Corlett had been selling the anniversary sweater as kits from the Wool Room and donating the proceeds to the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Bands for new uniforms. For the royal visit, says her niece, she was commissioned by the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Sesquicentennial Committee to knit a special version of the sweater to be presented to the Prince of Wales. The regal version had a white background and a crown knitted into the back of the collar.

The sweater was waiting for the prince at his next stop, the John Deutsch 카지노게임사이트 Centre, and he accepted it with good humour after unveiling a copy of the royal charter his thrice great-grandmother had granted Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 150 years before.

A luncheon followed at the JDUC, invitation by lottery. Philosophy professor Christine Overall and second-year student Sara (Ubancic) Harrison, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션92, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션93, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션95, were among 300 or so invitees who had been cooling their heels in baronial Wallace Hall since well before the unveiling ceremony, drinking wine and hoping one of the room카지노 게임 컬렉션s few chairs might become vacant.

Ms. Harrison remembers the free wine was welcomed by the students in attendance and there was a glow in the room by the time the prince finally arrived. Despite the delay, she says, everybody had a chance to meet Charles. Twice, in fact.

카지노 게임 컬렉션There was quite a lineup of students and other members of the public on each side of [the walkway], so I just kind of edged my way to the entrance and stuck out my arm and asked [Charles] if he would mind signing my cast.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Sharon Tysick, Law카지노 게임 컬렉션96

A receiving line was formed and the prince spoke briefly with all in attendance. Charles was smaller than Ms. Harrison expected (카지노 게임 컬렉션except for his ears카지노 게임 컬렉션). 카지노 게임 컬렉션I expected a much more intimidating person,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.

She told him she was studying English literature, and the prince admitted he knew less about her major than he probably should, given the job he would inherit. 

Dr. Overall, now emerita, would later write in the Kingston Whig-Standard that when she told the future king she taught philosophy, he turned serious, expounding on the importance of teaching young people about ancient philosophers.

카지노 게임 컬렉션As an instructor of contemporary feminist philosophy and biomedical ethics, I was at a loss to explain, in a short conversation, why I don카지노 게임 컬렉션t teach Plato,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Professor Overall wrote. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I sensed that the prince mildly disapproved.카지노 게임 컬렉션

When the last guests had received their audience, Ms. Harrison recalls, 카지노 게임 컬렉션we were all kind of just milling around and he was still there, so they 카지노 게임 컬렉션 made a line again and everybody went through it all over again.카지노 게임 컬렉션

After about three-quarters of an hour of small talk, the prince took his leave. His visit to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s might have ended then, but for Charles카지노 게임 컬렉션 insistence on seeing an exhibit at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, where drawings by London-based architect Léon Krier were on display. Mr. Krier shared the prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s disdain for modernist architecture and, three years before the visit to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, had been named master planner of Poundbury, Charles카지노 게임 컬렉션 experimental community in Dorset, England. The prince deemed the exhibit 카지노 게임 컬렉션magnificent,카지노 게임 컬렉션 the Whig-Standard would report. 

As he left the arts centre, a chance encounter with Sharon Tysick, Law카지노 게임 컬렉션96, would leave the future Crown attorney for the district of Nipissing with a souvenir she has kept ever since.

Ms. Tysick was walking from class when she happened on the crowd outside the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and realized what it meant. She looked down at her left arm, encased in fresh, white plaster, and made a spontaneous decision. She had been struck by a car while bicycling the previous week, and she saw an opportunity to make something good of the mishap.

카지노 게임 컬렉션There was quite a lineup of students and other members of the public on each side of [the walkway], so I just kind of edged my way to the entrance and stuck out my arm and asked him if he would mind signing my cast,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Ms. Tysick recalls. The prince immediately agreed.

  • Close-up of Prince Charles' signature on an arm cast, October 1991.

    Sharon Tysick's signed cast, October 1991. Photo courtesy of Sharon Tysick.

카지노 게임 컬렉션He tried one pen and it wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t working and 카지노 게임 컬렉션 he got another pen from security,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Ms. Tysick. 카지노 게임 컬렉션He signed Charles, that카지노 게임 컬렉션s all, just Charles.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Sometime later, a royal biographer would visit her to chronicle details of the encounter.

카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve kept [the cast] all this time, just kept the portion he signed when they cut it off me. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s faded substantially over time.카지노 게임 컬렉션

While other witnesses to the royal visit don카지노 게임 컬렉션t have physical mementos, they have a good deal of memories that have resurfaced since the prince became King.

카지노 게임 컬렉션I had always thought of [Prince Charles] as kind of a cold and distant person, especially after how the news had been depicting him in comparison to Diana,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Ms. Harrison. But in fact, she says, Charles was 카지노 게임 컬렉션warm, sweet, soft-spoken, but impish.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Ms. Harrison would later read the prince카지노 게임 컬렉션s convocation speech and be impressed, even more so when she eventually learned his marriage had been on the rocks at the time of his Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s visit. The speech, she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션was just so hopeful at a time when his own life was kind of falling apart, and he was able to find that inspiration inside himself.카지노 게임 컬렉션

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s is a magnet for stimulating speakers, says Farah Mohamed, 카지노 게임 컬렉션because of 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the popularity of the school, but also because it is a place of intellectual exploration. People came to speak there for the same reason people came to study there.카지노 게임 컬렉션

카지노 게임 컬렉션I saw lots of interesting people [speak] at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, 카지노 게임 컬렉션but the prince was at the top of the list.카지노 게임 컬렉션 

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