The episode had made everyone laugh. King Charles on Monday alluded to his mood swing over a recalcitrant pen on September 13. “These things are so whimsical,” he noted humorously, handing his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, a pen to sign a document during a trip to Scotland.
The king was making his first official engagement as king there, in the town of Dunfermline, in a kilt and alongside Camilla.
“I can’t stand this damn thing”
The story of the pen, last September, had marked the spirits and the sequence circulated a lot on social networks. We saw King Charles, on a visit to Ireland, lose his temper over a leaking pen, staining his fingers.
“I can’t stand this damn thing,” he said, visibly annoyed, wiping his fingers angrily.
Then, newly become king, a few days after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II after more than 70 years of reign, Carlos III had then revealed an aspect of his personality, easily irritable, little known by the general public. .
“The Spoiled Prince”
Especially since information about his habits had been in the press at the time, lifting the veil on a life of care drenched in luxury. That’s how we learned that his butler ironed his pajamas and shoelaces every day, and smeared toothpaste on his toothbrush.
But also that he never traveled without his toilet paper and bed, and demanded that his crackers and cheese be heated. So many customs that they earned him a nickname among the servants of Clarence House, of “spoiled prince“, or “the spoiled prince”.
In any case, King Charles showed on Monday that he had a sense of humor and knew how to be self-critical.
Source: BFM TV
