A royal fan who was arrested and detained for 13 hours after being mistaken for a protester at the coronation has said the experience was “shocking.”
Alice Chambers, 36, said she took her place on The Mall in central London at around 7 a.m. on the Saturday and hoped to see King Charles III and Queen Camilla as they passed, but she was unaware she was standing near a group from Just Stop Oil.
Chambers, originally from Australia but now working in London as an architect, told the BBC’s “Newsnight” programme she was “grabbed” by a police officer and handcuffed, along with several Just Stop Oil protesters, at 9 a.m….