The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been charged with violent disorder during student protests in London.
Charlie Gilmour, 21, was pictured swinging from a Union Flag on the Cenotaph memorial during the march against tuition fee increases.
He was arrested on December 12 and this evening was charged by the Metropolitan Police with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg on December 9.
He issued an apology the day after the demonstrations, describing it as a "moment of idiocy" and admitted he did not realise the monument in Whitehall commemorated Britain's war dead.
Gilmour, who has also been on the books of modelling agency Select Model Management, is the son of writer and journalist Polly Samson.
His biological father is the poet and playwright Heathcote Williams but he was adopted by Mr Gilmour when his mother remarried.
The former Lancing College pupil, of Steele Farm, Lordings Road, Billingshurst, is due to appear City of Westminster Magistrates’s Court on February 10.
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