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Prince Charles was born to his job. But the way he took to the streets today, you would have thought he was campaigning for it. Not since the presidential campaign have there been the crowds or the security which surrounded the prince everywhere. At the bank of America

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headquarters, he ran into the first protest of the day, banners simulated coffins and a bus all carrying messages relating to the British presence in northern Ireland. There were also hundreds of admirers, people who just wanted to see for themselves what royalty looked like in the flesh.

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Awfully short. I think it was fantastic outside the merchants exchange building, the pro Irish demonstrators got noisy but as in all his stops, when the prince appeared, the applause overwhelmed the opposition and there was no violence, staying

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calm through it. All the prince went aboard the Golden Hind as it bobbed in the waves aboard a bart train for a ride under the bay and through crowds at Oakland City Hall where he gave his only public address of the morning. I'm delighted to have

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the chance to visit this particular city as uh my visit here is not really all that long and so it's marvelous to see another part of the wide city of San Francisco. Next, it was aboard a yacht for a tour of Oakland's port and then lunch

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at UC Berkeley in private, behind security and beyond cameras. The Prince plans to keep up this pace for two more days, including a helicopter tour of the wine country and a meeting with another famous bachelor Governor Brown on Sunday. He's off to Australia where he will

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at least have the time in flight to himself before the whole show starts again down under in Berkeley, Kevin mccullough News Center for.