Charles and Camilla were warmly welcomed to Scotland, lands so loved by Elizabeth II. It is also in this region that she breathed her last, in her castle of Balmoral on September 8th. The couple visited Dunfermline Abbey on its 950th anniversary, after attending a meeting at the City Chambers to formally mark the ancient town being granted city status.
The episode of the pen had attracted a lot of attention, because it highlighted the king’s lack of self-control, contrasting with the legendary temperament of his queen, a woman who was so measured, even impassive. “I can’t stand this damn thing!“, he had declared in front of the cameras, not hiding his grimace. The ink of the pencil ran on his hands and he had added: “Oh my god I hate this. “ Camilla, very calm but visibly embarrassed, had previously pointed out to him that he had made the wrong date between September 12 and 13. Enough to excite the former Prince Charles. A few days before, a similar scene s Charles III, irritated to the highest point, had asked the help of his assistants because of a misplaced pen holder.
Certainly angry, Charles also has a good dose of self-mockery. During a walkabout in Wales during the funeral period, someone in the crowd had dared to offer him a pen (which does not leak). A gift he took with a big smile! What to make forget, the time of a joke, the tensions within his family, in particular his relations with his youngest son, Harry, and his wife Meghan.