It’s hard to believe that Prince Charles was ever twenty-one years old, but when he was that age in 1970, he and his 19 year old sister,Princess Anne, visited President Nixon. Nixon remarked at the time that a Prince of Wales visited America about once every 50 years: The first in 1860, the next one in 1919, and then in 1970.
King Timahoe got his name from a hamlet in County Kildare, Ireland where Nixon’s ancestors were from. The setter was a birthday present from Nixon’s staff in 1969, though staff members had first given Nixon a small model of an Irish setter to represent the puppy to come in a few weeks.
Nixon held off on naming the dog until he met him, explaining that he wanted to “judge his personality” but that it would “certainly be a good Irish name.”
Image of King Timahoe