On July 1, 1969, 11-year-old Maria Sarnacki stood cheek to jowl with her classmates, Brownie camera raised, as she strained to capture Queen Elizabeth II and then-Prince Charles on the balcony of Caernarfon Castle.
“It was absolutely something out of a film, a fairy tale,” Sarnacki said. “The late Majesty and Prince Charles came out … and he turned and waved. And to this day I was convinced he waved to me and nobody else but to me.”
Sarnacki, now mayor of the small Welsh town of Caernarfon, was one of thousands outside the castle that day when Charles was formally presented as the Prince
