The claim
An image posted on social media shows King Charles, when he was titled the Prince of Wales, with a caption claiming he is standing alongside both the disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile and the Dunblane massacre mass shooter Thomas Hamilton.
Original publisher’s rating
False: The photo does show King Charles, when he was titled the Prince of Wales, and Jimmy Savile together in 1999. But the third person in the photo is Iain Thornber, acting as a deputy Lord Lieutenant for Inverness, a regional representative of the monarch. Thomas Hamilton, the shooter in the 1996 Dunblane massacre, is not in the photo and died before it was taken, turning a gun on himself after the shootings.
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