King Charles III being shot blanks at as a young Prince

That time in 1994 in Sydney, Australia when a man (David Kang) fired two blank shots from a starting pistol at Prince Charles in protest at the treatment of several hundred Cambodian asylum seekers held in detention camps in Australia

A 23-year-old university student, David Kang, fired blank shots as part of a protest against the treatment of Cambodian asylum seekers being held in detention camps across Australia.

The protest from Kang came after he had allegedly written over 500 letters on the topic to newspapers and world figures including his majesty.

Although it was not believed that Kang was trying to kill the then Prince, the student was charged and found guilty of threatening unlawful violence and sentenced to 500 hours of community service.

But the Sydney attack was not the King’s first time the monarch was involved in such a situation.

On the day of Charles Investiture as Prince of Wales, a plot named “Operation Edding” was planned that targeted a bridge on the route along a road from Porthmadog to the Investiture at Caernarfon Castle.

With plans to destroy the bridge a month before the event itself and blame the British security services.

However, the plan was scrapped last minute as although two Welsh extremists did attempt to sabotage the north Wales coastal rail line in a different part of north Wales shortly before the Investiture, they were killed when their bomb exploded before they reached their objective.