An Essex-based octogenarian has featured on front pages around the world loudly making royal announcements – although no one has asked him to do soAmong the crowd that gathered at Kensington Palace on Monday to celebrate Prince Harry’s engagement,one voice was raised above the rest: that of Tony Appleton, a self-described “independent town crier” from Chelmsford, or Essex,who announced the happy tidings with a bell and a bellow: “Oyez, oyez, and oyez!”Appleton,who is 81, has shown up uninvited to every major royal announcement since 2013, and when he declaimed the news of Prince George’s birth from the steps of the Lindo wing at St Mary’s hospital,London. That earned him appearances on front pages across the globe, not to mention US news networks such as ABC, and Fox and CNN.
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Source: guardian.co.uk