- Patrick Thelwell, an Extinction Rebellion activist who once stood as a Green Party candidate, is the suspect
- Couple were being welcomed to York by city leaders when man threw three eggs at them, all of which missed
- Protester shouted 'this country was built on the blood of slaves' as he was being bundled to ground by police
- Other people in the crowd started chanting 'God save the King' and 'shame on you' as the man was led away
the King unveiled the first statue of his mother since her death in September.
Weighing 1.1 tonnes and made from French limestone, it shows the Queen in the robes of the Order of the Garter.
It was intended to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee and was completed in August, the month before she died.
York will also get its first new public square in 200 years with the development of the area in front of the statue, which will be named in the Queen’s honour.
Before unveiling the statue, which is raised above street level, Charles said: “The late Queen was always vigilant for the welfare of her people during her life.”
He said her “image will watch over what will become Queen Elizabeth Square for centuries to come”.
Earlier, the Charles and his wife Camilla, the Queen Consort, joined the Archbishop of York and other dignitaries for a service at the minster and looked at a new exhibition explaining how the statue was made.
They saw a scaled model of the final sculpture as well as a maquette used in the design process.
shown a scaled replica of the statue of Queen Elizabeth II that they will unveil later
He said: “I hope everybody likes it. It is the best I could pull out of myself. Hopefully I have done justice to the Queen and the King likes it and I have done justice to the front of the building.”
Mr Bossons, who has done caricatures or grotesques for cathedral gargoyles before, said there were some nerve-wracking moments during the sculpting, which involved a three-tonne piece of Lepine limestone being cut by machines to his design and six months’ work with his chisel to refine the stone.
He said: “I am hugely relieved and it will be nice now to go back to my bread-and-butter work.”
The design was created to give a sense of potential movement, with the Queen looking down the main approach to the minster and her left hand pulling in her robe to brace against the winds which frequently buffet the west front
Blank cartridges, eggs and even a ROSE: Previous times when Charles, the Queen and Prince Philip came under fire in the line of duty
King Charles being targeted with eggs is not the first time that senior royals have come under fire in public.
Both Charles and his late mother the Queen have been shot at with blanks in the past, whilst Her Majesty also had eggs thrown at her during a visit to New Zealand with Prince Philip in 1986.
Charles was targeted in a less concerning way in 2001, when a protester slapped him across the face with a red rose.
1981: Marcus Sargeant fires blanks at the Queen
The Queen was riding down The Mall during a Trooping the Colour parade in 1981 when 17-year-old Marcus Sarjeant fired blank shots at her.
He was tackled by a soldier and the police before being arrested and charged.
Although the Queen had to calm her horse, named Burmese, she continued with the cremony.
Sarjeant was later jailed for five years under the 1842 Treason Act.
The last person to be convicted of a similar offence was Nazi collaborator William Joyce during the Second World War.
The Queen was riding down The Mall during a Trooping the Colour parade in 1981 when 17-year-old Marcus Sarjeant fired blank shots at her. He was tackled by a soldier and the police before being arrested and charged
1986: The Queen and Prince Philip targeted with eggs in New Zealand
The Queen and Prince Philip were visiting New Zealand for the seventh time in 1986 when they were targeted with eggs while riding in an open top car.
The car was travelling through Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse as 42,000 school children watched on.
After the eggs had been thrown, the Queen was seen brushing away any residue before she nodded in reply when Philip asked her if she was ok.
The Queen and Prince Philip were visiting New Zealand for the seventh time in 1986 when they were targeted with eggs while riding in an open top car. The car was travelling through Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse as 42,000 school children watched on
Two women wearing white coats were then bundled away by police.
Her Majesty later made light of the incident in a joke at that evening's banquet, saying: 'Of course New Zealand has long been renowned for its dairy produce.
'Though I should say, that I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.'
1994: Charles is shot at with blanks
When the then Prince Charles was on a visit to Sydney in 1994, 23-year-old student David Kang fired a shot at him from a starting pistol.
Charles had been making a speech at the time, to mark Australia Day.
Kang, who went on to become a barrister, later said that he carried out the stunt to highlight the plight of Cambodian asylum seekers being held in detention camps in Australia.
He was bundled to the ground and arrested before being found guilty of threatening unlawful violence and sentenced to 500 hours of community service.
When the then Prince Charles was on a visit to Sydney in 1994, 23-year-old student David Kang fired a shot at him from a starting pistol
2001: Latvian schoolgirl slaps Charles across the face with a rose
When Prince Charles was on a visit to Latvia in 2001, he was targeted by schoolgirl Alina Lebedyver, who was then 16.
She used a rose to slap him around the face and later said she performed the stunt to protest against the war in Afghanistan.
Lebedyver also told reporters that Britain was 'the enemy of the world'.
She was charged with endangering the life of a foreign dignitary and faced up to 15 years in prison.
Charles made a plea for leniency and the charges were downgraded, eventually to the point where she was put under her mother's supervision for a year.
When Prince Charles was on a visit to Latvia in 2001, he was targeted by schoolgirl Alina Lebedyver, who was then 16. She used a rose to slap him around the face and later said she performed the stunt to protest against the war in Afghanistan
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