Prince Charles, Camilla visit King memorial in Washington

Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, visited some of Washington's monuments and memorials today.
The royal couple spent about 20 minutes touring the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial as well as the Lincoln Memorial. They paused briefly to read some of King's quotations about the civil rights movement that are engraved in stone.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that," read one quotation where the royal couple paused to see the slain civil rights leader's words from 1963.
Prince Charles and Camilla were joined by two civil rights leaders for their tour of the King memorial, the Rev Jesse Jackson and Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. They also greeted students and teachers from a high school in Virginia who had gathered to watch the visit.

Joan Darby, who brought her US history class from Virginia, to the King memorial said they were thrilled and surprised to meet Prince Charles, along with Lewis and Jackson.
"To come here and have such a joyful event was just really incredible luck on our part," she said.

Harry Johnson, the president of the foundation that built the King memorial, said he gave the royal couple a stone from the memorial's granite as a gift.
Earlier, the royal couple visited the Lincoln Memorial, where they were greeted by historians Doris Kearns Godwin and Michael Beschloss.
The couple is also visiting George Washington's Mount Vernon estate in Virginia and the National Archives, which holds the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and a copy of the English Magna Carta.