Royal Display Of Affection

Prince Charles and his long-time companion, Camilla Parker Bowles, ended their summer vacation with a public display Sunday. CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports that it was the moment the British press – if few others – had been waiting months to see.

Along with the princeÂ's sons, William and Harry, the couple had spent the last 10 days in the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht owned by a Greek tycoon. A veritable army of paparazzi was unable to track them down.

Royal watchers saw the public appearance as another step in the process of formalizing the coupleÂ's relationship. It was in sharp contrast to the start of the holiday, when Parker Bowles, 52, avoided the media spotlight and slipped away to Greece 24 hours ahead of the prince and his teenage sons.

Adding spice to it all, the public display of togetherness came a day after reports that harpoon-wielding protesters had threatened Prince Charles.

That incident occurred while the prince was swimming away from the luxury yacht near Cyprus. A royal bodyguard intervened when the prince set off a security alarm he always carries.

The incident provided the royals-obsessed British tabloid press with lurid headlines, but a spokesmen for the royal family played down the dangers.

As for the couple in question, they seem to have had a nice vacation.

The pair boarded a jet in the Greek capital before landing at a British air base shortly after noon, from where they are thought to have traveled to the prince's Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire.