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The Prince of Wales and his sister were given a miniature caravan by by The Caravan Club in 1955, which they rode around Buckingham Palace. The child-sized Rollalong caravan was 2.72 metres long, 1.35 metres wide and 1.80 metres tall.
Daddy Cool’s iconic ‘Eagle Rock’ is a song based on sexual innuendo or to be perfectly blunt, it’s a song about rooting.
The Daddy Cool classic ‘Eagle Rock’ will turn 50 in May 2021. The song was a national number one in Australia for 10 weeks in 1971 and charted again in 1986 and 1990.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the song songwriter Ross Wilson took Noise11 through the conception and history of ‘Eagle Rock’. The term ‘Eagle Rock’ in song dates back to 1914 when it was used in the lyrics of ‘Ballin’ The Jack’ by Chris Smith. ‘Ballin’ The Jack’ was a locomotive term for going at full speed and Eagle Rock’, well Ross explains … “The Eagle Rock was a dance but like rock and roll it is also a euphemism for you know what, yes rooting, spread eagling.
It is believed that their father, the
Duke of Edinburgh, would pull the children around in the caravan on the grounds of
Buckingham Palace, using an old Hillman Husky which it was fitted to via a towbar.
Prince Charles and Princess Anne s caravan was included in a royal exhibition
The classic design was painted half yellow and half cream, while the interiors featured wooden panelled walls, brown carpets and cream and blue tartan curtains. It came complete with its own water, gas and electricity supply, a kitchen, a miniature tea set and a complete collection of Beatrix Potter books for the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal to read at their leisure.