In fact, Mr. Gorbachev's speakingengagement is part of a campaign to fund his Foundation's three-part "Global Security Project" launched last month at a symposium in Moscow.
Then I found myself at a major speakingengagement in Berlin last December, where it was obvious the attendees there were very engaged in the use of Twitter during the programming.
And then he goes to New York City for a speakingengagement, and finds a young immigrant couple living in his long-vacant apartment they've been taken in by a real estate scammer.
"There were only two instances when a private hire company was used to drive Mr Rhodes to an evening meeting or speakingengagement and these both resulted in a travel time of between one and half hours and two hours late at night, " a spokeswoman said.
Speaking in a joint television interview, the prince said he gave his fiance his mother Diana's engagement ring, having carried it in a rucksack for three weeks.