Prince Charles has a chat with Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee at a reception in Mumbai on Tuesday evening. — PTI
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Mumbai, November 5
It could have been an awkward moment for Prince Charles, but he shook
hands with a Lady Diana lookalike and moved on to other guests at a
reception hosted in Mumbai yesterday evening.
At the cocktail event where a large number of Mumbai’s industrialists, celebrities and expatriates met with the heir to the British throne, he was introduced to Martina New wife of Reuters’ General Manager Mitya New. Prince Charles shook hands with her, exchanged some pleasantries and moved on.
However, the woman is not revealing what the Prince told her. Martina, however, told journalists later that she was often called as Diana lookalike in England as well.
She was dressed in an off-white linen suit with a strand of pearls for the occasion, guests at the function later said.
Charles meeting with Martina even made it to London tabloid, ‘The Sun’. According to reports reaching here, the tabloid identified her as a “40-year-old, elegant German blonde married to a journalist based in India”. The newspaper quoted her as saying that she was often mistaken for Diana and that it was nothing new for her as she has learnt to live with it.
Meanwhile, wrapping up his nine-day tour to India, heir to British throne, Prince Charles left for Muscat this afternoon.
The Prince left in a chartered British Airways 767 aircraft at 2.30 pm, official sources said here.
Earlier, the Prince of Wales visited the Cheshire Home at Andheri in north-west Mumbai and interacted with 44 inmates of the home for the disabled.
He spent time with the disabled and enquired about their health and life at the home.
He later visited the slum-dwellers of Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum area, and interacted with the masses.
