Dozens of demonstrators broke the police motorcycles by a cordon Thursday to break and to deface the Rolls-Royce Phantom VI the Prince and his wife contributed. Protesters pushed splashed a backplane, glossy dark brown outside with white threw the car with sticks and bottles and smash a side window. Some shouted "with their heads off!"
Photographs splashed across the front pages of newspapers on Friday which showed few, were on their way to a Royal Gala in the back seat wear formal clothes, mouth agape as the car through the theater district in London crawled.
The public was first caught to the couple and terrified sympathetic. But by Friday, response to criticism and blame game with questions about why were the couple in an armored car, horse riding, why they took the route they did and why, transformed had once masses of angry teenagers were visible, kept their route.
"Prince Charles and Camilla's Rolls Royce was car, wrong" declared a headline in the Telegraph. "Charles and Camilla are better protected could?" asked a headline on the BBC website.
The police is focused on the demonstrators, thousands of which were against a strong rise in college tuition fees demonstrate. More than 50 people were injured, news reports and 33 protestors were arrested, police said.
The metropolitan police force Friday said that it had opened a "critical research" in the attack and "all the circumstances behind the violent disorder." Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted to feel sure that "The people in this heinous way behaved the full force of the law of the country."
But the stately vintage vehicle, a gift of the Queen was not mailed and the Telegraph reported was "designed to the public the best representation of members of the Royal family."
Ken Wharfe, a former Royal protection officer said it was "old, heavy, has a bad turning circle and has no protective qualities." The route he wrote in the London Evening Standard, "was dangerous and should be avoidable been."
The Director who said metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, the route had been tested "several minutes before" and had been clear.
"The unpredictability of flippers and meant how over the capital protection officers moved in a very difficult situation," he said. He praised to show the officers for restraint and keep their guns holstered.
Eyewitnesses reported the car further towards the crowd, even after it was obvious that blocked the road with demonstrators was. But from videos of the episode, it seemed that until then there has been no way to turn back.
Charles and Camilla, who finally at the destination, an annual pre-Christmas variety show at the London Palladium, intact arrived had nothing but praise for the police.
"Their Highnesses fully understand the difficulties the police face," a spokesman said, "and are always very grateful the police for the job you often do circumstances in."
Ravi Somaiya reported from London and Elissa Gootman from New York.
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