Camilla wields knife as Charles told to behave
THE Prince of Wales was put in his place by the Duchess of Cornwall when she jokingly brandished a knife at him.
With a smile on her face, Camilla held up the 20cm blade and told Charles “behave yourself”.
The encounter came as the royal couple looked at a selection of hand forged kitchen knives by cutler Barry Gardner, 61, based at the Australian Seppeltsfield Winery near Tanunda.
Charles had a look of mock horror on his face as he stared at the Damascus steel blade, but his entourage and the vineyard’s senior staff erupted with laughter.
The prince and the duchess were taken on a tour of the property and Camilla admitted she loved a tipple.
“I am a red wine drinker,” she said. “My father was in the wine trade.”
They were then escorted to Seppeltsfield’s barrel room, where they sampled tawny port put under oak in the years of their birth, 1947 for Camilla and 1948 for Charles.
The couple joked over who had the better tasting birth-year, with the prince describing his as strong and bold, and the duchess’s as refined and elegant.
The visit to the winery near Adelaide came on the first day of their trip to Australia, which followed a tour of New Zealand.
The prince and duchess began their Australian tour by visiting the small town.