Final preparations being made for King and Queen’s visit to Front Royal

FRONT ROYAL, Va. (WHSV) – It is the calm earlier than the storm because the city of Front Royal is making last preparations to welcome King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Roads are closed, no-parking indicators are posted all through the world, and crews have been battling the rain to put the ending touches in place since 3:00 am Wednesday.

For a lifelong resident of Front Royal and proprietor of the native enterprise AllClaimsPro, Larry Urgo stated the joy of getting such a distinguished determine in his hometown is thru the roof, with the visit formally introduced earlier within the week.

“I was talking with some of my workers. There had been some grumblings and rumors floating around, but I think the Secret Service and some of the other agencies have been around and have done a really good job at keeping it under wraps,” Urgo stated.

While Wednesday afternoon was considerably of a ghost city, Thursday within the small city of Warren County might be filled with guests hoping to get a look of the couple.

This additionally means safety might be on excessive alert with checkpoints and safety all all through the world. But for Urgo, he is excited for himself and fellow Front Royal residents to see a world icon the way in which people did again in April 1950 when Bing Crosby visited the Town of Front Royal.

“As someone who’s lived here for a while, walking around and talking with other business owners, we always hear about the days when Bing Crosby came through Front Royal and how cool of an event that was and so it’s pretty cool to take part in our own right with a very influential and famous person coming through our main street,” Urgo stated.