In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, Richard H. Truly and Joe Engle, the crew of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Concerns were often raised as to how his opinions would feature when he became monarch. The head of state is a non-political figurehead and must remain strictly neutral. But when he turned 70, four ...