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Royal Author Reveals the "Terrible Faux Pas" King Charles Experienced While Visiting the White House

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Entertaining members of the Royal Family must be pretty nerve-wracking , particularly as a plethora of rules are usually enforced. According to a royal author , one former American president was "horrified" during a visit from King Charles for a slightly embarrassing reason. Speaking to Hello! magazine , David Charter—author of Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents—One Queen's Special Relationship With America —explained, "Ronald Reagan was horrified when he had Prince Charles into the Oval Office and they brought him a cup of tea that still had the tea bag in it, and he could see that he wasn't drinking this cup of tea, and he thought he'd made a terrible faux pas." Luckily, according to Charter, the "tea bag" debacle would be considered "a very small little faux pas" to members of the Royal Family. After all, a simple mistake is likely to "somehow only endear each side [the British and Americans] to the other a little bit more," Charter noted.…

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