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He is supposed to be unflappable, at least in public.
Perhaps that is why the king prefers that his suits do not have any traditional feature: the flaps that are supposed to cover the pockets of the coat, as is commonly known?
Why? It is known that Charles likes clean lines – and does not like unnecessary frills.
However, some royal watchers suggest that pockets without flaps are easier to put his hands in, and he certainly does plenty of that.
However, it seems to have stopped with the younger generation as Prince William and Prince Harry have both been seen with them.
Not that the king is the first royal family to go flap-free. His father Prince Philip seems to have taken largely the same approach.
Just like other royals in times gone by, as these photos show…
Unperturbed: King Charles III visiting the Eastlands Library in Nairobi
Look – no hands. Prince Albert, later King George VI, and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later the Queen Mother, pictured on their honeymoon in 1923
Ready for anything: the late Duke of Edinburgh in country tweed at the Braemar Gathering in September 2017
Not keen to follow suit: Prince of Wales shows he likes to cover (his pockets) in Sheffield
Buttoned up. King Charles loves his father’s style, as evidenced during a visit to a French vineyard earlier this year
Trendsetter: Did George V, pictured with Queen Mary, set the template for royal bags shortly after their wedding in 1893?
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, left, pictured in uniform with his cousin King George V in 1910
King George V, in his study at Sandringham House, Norfolk, in 1897