He knows what he’s talking about! King Charles simply MUST lead the way when there is food and drink, as these photos show…
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It may be a little unfair, but from modern architecture to the ‘grey blob’ of nanotechnology, King Charles is often accused of sticking his nose into things where it isn’t wanted.
But when it comes to food and drinks, he is truly an expert.
And that’s when the royal schnozzle comes into its own…
King Charles enjoyed a samosa food truck stop in Nairobi last week. He suggested that the food could blow your head off
Prince Charles gets a taste of local honey during a trip to Exmoor National Park in 2019
Clean Living Charles smells olive soap while visiting a traditional olive and fruit orchard at the Carmelite Monastery in Bethlehem in January 2020
An organic aroma from the Sedlescombe Vineyard in the village of Fletching in East Sussex in May 2000
The Prince of Wales is introduced to a Sri Lankan leek in Kandy, 2013
Charles shows us how it’s done again, this time with a box of wild mushrooms in Ljubljana, Slovenia in March 2011
Get a load of it! Charles at the Kizimbani Spice Plantation during a visit to Tanzania in 2011
That’s garlic, sir. Chalres at a farmer’s market in Swiss Cottage, London in November 2000
The heir apparent inspects the products in Settle, Yorkshire, in March 2017
Cheese fanatic Charles gets to work in September 2010 during a visit to Edinburgh
The smell of Brooke’s Dairy Ice Cream in Gloucestershire, December 2004
Now it’s the turn of a melon at Marks & Spencer in July 2009. Executive Chairman Sir Stuart Rose is on the left
Double-breasted Charles seriously smells like a Howland Wonder Apple – a rare English fruit – at the Cheshire Show in June 1998
A delighted Prince of Wales discovers this bread was made in January 2001 from organic flour from the Highgrove estate
Charles appears absent from the green tomato chutney attendance at Hotwells Primary School in December 2005
It looks like soup – and the prince makes it in the kitchens of Nottingham’s City Hospital
Get in! This time it’s pesto sauce made in the kitchens of the Royal Brompton Hospital in February 2008