Kilt-wearing King Charles beams as he meets crowds of well-wishers in Scotland
KILT-wearing King Charles was the big grin yesterday as he visited Scotland.
His Majesty beamed as cries of God Save the King rang out while he and Queen Consort Camilla met crowds of well-wishers.
Smiling, waving and shaking hands, the couple went on a walkabout in Dunfermline, as they conferred its new city status.
The honour was awarded by his late mother, the Queen, as part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
In a speech, the King told dignitaries he and his wife were “immensely proud” to share the historic moment and it would have gladdened “my dear mother’s heart, as it gladdens mine”.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as she arrived for the event.
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The King and Queen Consort were also given a warm welcome by British South Asian business people, alongside charity and faith leaders, at a reception in Edinburgh later.
They were the couple's first joint public engagements since the official period of royal mourning ended last week.
Pen-alty box
KING Charles falls foul of a dodgy pen yet again.
He was signing a visitors’ book at Dunfermline Abbey when he handed the pen to Queen Consort Camilla and said: “These things are so temperamental.”
It comes after Charles had pen problems at his accession last month and at a service of reflection in Belfast.