Queen Camilla has revealed what Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis love to do as soon as they arrive at Balmoral for the summer holidays.
In the documentary Charles III: The Coronation Year, which airs on BBC One tonight, King Charles and the rest of the Royal Family allow the cameras an intimate glimpse into their inner life.
One moment from the programme shows Charles and Camilla walking their dog around the Balmoral estate, with them crossing a footbridge over a river.
As she crosses over the Queen turns to the cameras and says: “It’s lovely to bounce on, that bridge. Every child, when they come here, they rush there and bounce about on the bridge for hours.”
Every summer the family spend time together in the Scottish Highlands, and it is known that the three Wales children travel there with their parents Prince William and Princess Kate for their holidays – so its likely George, Charlotte and Louis is who Camilla is referring to, though she does have other grandchildren and young visitors.
Elsewhere in the programme the viewer is taken behind-the-scenes at rehearsals for the King and Queen’s Coronation, which was held on May 6 at Westminster Abbey.
In one cheeky scene William is heard joking with his father about the King’s infamous “sausage fingers” as they practised the moment William hands over the ‘Stole Royal to the monarch, an embroidered band of cloth which symbolises the sacred nature of kingship.
The Prince of Wales then comments about how fiddly the catch is and complains: “On the day, it’s not going to go on, is it?”, to which Charles swiftly responds: “No, [But] you haven’t got sausage fingers like mine!”
“And I think we did try and persuade her that that shouldn’t be part of the decision-making process. So I hope she felt that that was right in the end, because I think we did.”
Anne added that for her the pivotal moment came when the Imperial State Crown was removed from her coffin, to symbolise the crown being passed on to King Charles.
She said: “My mother’s funeral in St George’s [at Windsor], he takes the crown off the coffin – I rather weirdly felt a sense of relief, somehow that’s it, finished. That responsibility being moved on.”
