No, Janine Kirk did not touch Prince Charles Down Under, she vehemently denied tabloid reports. In any case, she was not the first woman to “do the dare” anyway.

A photo apparently showing Kirk touching the royal buttocks went viral as she guided the future king around a reception. Local media went crazy about it. According to a Sydney tabloid, the “incident” went on for eight seconds.

However, Kirk believes it is just a “funny camera angle.”

“As if I would touch his bottom,” The Mirror quoted the boss of the Prince’s Australian charities as saying. “It is just ridiculous.”

Kirk, if she really touched Prince Charles’ rear, is not the first woman to reach there in public. Geri Halliwell from the Spice Girls pinched the prince in 1997 when the two met for the first time.

Charles wrote Halliwell a letter when she quit the group in 1998.

“What will I do without your wonderfully friendly greeting?” the BBC quoted Charles as referring to her “kisses and bottom-pinching.”

Even Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was involved in a similar incident in Australia. The-then Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating earned the nickname "The Lizard of Oz" for putting his arm around the Queen during her tour of Australia in 1992.

Patting on the rumps, though common among sports professionals, is not viewed well in every culture. Former NFL star Chad Johnson was unable to avoid spending 30 days in jail because the judge found it offensive when he patted his lawyer on the backside.

“I just saw you slap your attorney on the backside,” the Associated Press quoted Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh as saying while she rejected Johnson’s plea negotiations. “Is there something funny about this?”

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