Crown Prince Naruhito seen as "slightly shy" in U.K.: archives

Crown Prince Naruhito seen as "slightly shy" in U.K.: archives

File photo taken in October 1992 shows former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. According to newly released government files at the National Archives in London, Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito was described as "personable, although slightly shy" in a letter from Peter Ricketts, a private secretary at the Foreign Office, to John Coles, Thatcher's private secretary, ahead of Thatcher's lunch with the prince at her country residence when he was studying at the University of Oxford. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000051972
  • Registered date
  • 2017/1/05 13:26:13
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2017 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 564 × 798 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 138.99(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Crown Prince Naruhito seen as "slightly shy" in U.K.: archives

    Crown Prince Naruhito seen as "slightly shy" in U.K.: archives

    Photo taken Dec. 15, 1983 shows Prince Naruhito (2nd from L), the eldest son of then Japanese Crown Prince Akihito and then Crown Princess Michiko, chatting with friends at the University of Oxford's Merton College, England. The current crown prince was described as "personable, although slightly shy" by British officials in 1984, according to newly released government files at the National Archives in London. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo