Royal alpine ski tragedy
- Title
- Royal alpine ski tragedy
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 11 Mar 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:47
- Description
- Simon Cole reporting for News at Ten on the avalanche which killed Major Hugh Lindsay and injured Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, friends of Prince Charles, at the Alpine ski resort of Klosters, Switzerland. Comment from a female member of the Swiss Air Rescue Service. Spokesman Philip Mackie reading a statement from the Prince of Wales on his good fortune in avoiding the avalanche, which occurred when the royal party was ski-ing off-piste.
- Contributors
- Simon Cole; Philip Mackie
- Keywords
- Accidents; Royal family; Royalty; Switzerland; Prince Charles; Avalanches; Accidental death; Prince of Wales; Klosters; Hugh Lindsay; Swiss Air Rescue Service; Patty Palmer-Tomkinson
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