Truth be told, if a member of the royal family is spotted on public transportation, it's usually a photo-op.
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13 photos of royals riding public transportation show that they're just like us
If a member of the royal family is spotted on public transportation, it's usually a photo-op. But that doesn't make these pictures any less amusing.
But that doesn't make these photos of royals in the "real world" any less amusing.
Here are 13 photos of royals pretending to know how to use public transportation — and in rare cases, actually using it.
Queen Elizabeth visited the London Underground in 1977.
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Queen Elizabeth passed though the tube gates at Heathrow Central in London.
She visited again for the London Underground's 150th anniversary.
Queen Elizabeth made an official visit to Baker Street Underground Station to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground in 2013.
She boarded a high-speed Eurostar train at Waterloo International Station.
She takes the regular commuter train to Sandringham for Christmas every year.
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip took a train to Sandringham from Kings Lynn train station to begin their Christmas holiday.
She always remembers to mind the gap.
Queen Elizabeth boarded a train at Kings Cross Station in London in 2009.
She's also been known to hop on a bus from time to time.
Queen Elizabeth traveled on a Cambridgeshire Guided Bus to visit the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge in 2013.
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Kate Middleton rode a 1960s-style bus for a charity event.
Kate Middleton rode with actress Barbara Windsor on a 1960s Routemaster bus as as they met staff and volunteers from a charity organization in 2013.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry rode the Belmond British Pullman train at Paddington Station.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry attended the Charities Forum event to join children from the charities they support onboard the Belmond British Pullman train at Paddington Station in 2017.
Prince Harry rode a New London Bus in New York City with then-Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Prince William toured a Crossrail train in Derby, England.
He even got to test drive it, as well as meet the manufacturers.
Prince Charles toured facilities that build London Underground trains.
Prince Charles toured facilities and met employees working on London Underground tube trains in 2012.
He and Camilla have taken the train together.
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Camilla and Prince Charles traveled on a Metropolitan underground train from Farringdon to King's Cross as to mark 150 years of London Underground in 2013.
They've been seatmates on the bus, too.
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