Prince takes business card
Published Wednesday November 4th, 2009
During second day of royal visit, Charles and Camilla visit Memorial University
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - For an entrepreneurial whiz kid, the chance to network with royalty was too good a chance to pass up.
Prince Charles laughed yesterday during the second day of his cross-Canada tour as Joe Coffey, the 24-year-old co-founder of Upstream Marketing, shook his hand at Memorial University and slipped him his business card.
It was a rare move not just in terms of protocol niceties but for its sheer audacity.
The prince was amused.
"I think it broke the ice and gave us, you know, something to laugh about," said Coffey.
"He was very curious about our business and what we were doing and that kind of thing. One of the girls said to me: 'He kept the card.' So, if we get a hit on our website from England we'll know who it is."
Charles met with several students and faculty at the university in St. John's after returning from a packed day of historical sightseeing with his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, in Cupids and Brigus on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula.
Charles unveiled a plaque in Cupids to celebrate the community's 400th birthday in 2010.
Cupids United Church was packed with camera-toting admirers as he spoke of the "stoic" early settlers who came to this wildly rugged coastal region in 1610.
Rain fell off and on, and may well have thinned the sparse crowd of well-wishers who greeted them.
The pretty town, originally known as Cuper's Cove, bills itself as the oldest English settlement in Canada.
Charles and Camilla are to spend this morning in St. John's before heading to Toronto. They will make several stops in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec before ending up back in Ottawa for Remembrance Day.
They will head home from the capital on Nov. 12 after an 11-day tour.
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