Handsome princes and history lesson as royal visit wraps up in high science

THERE are occasions when even a monarch has to bow to the inevitable but it couldn’t have happened in a nicer way.

Queen Elizabeth II was at the Tyndall Institute, a leading technology facility at University College Cork and the last port of call in her four-day state visit.

While she enthralled the hundreds of academics, politicians and business people gathered to greet her, one member of the audience remained asleep, oblivious to the excitement generated by Cork’s first royal visit in 100 years.