Charles treated to a pint on visit to Devon pub in baking sunshine
The Prince of Wales has enjoyed a pint of beer at a pub in the sweltering Devon sunshine, while the Duchess of Cornwall kept cool under a parasol.
Charles and Camilla were visiting the Duke of York Inn in the village of Iddesleigh yesterday, where temperatur es soared to 31C.
Camilla was greeted in the village by author Sir Michael Morpurgo, who was inspired to write his novel War Horse after meeting First World War veteran Wilfred Ellis in the bar almost 30 years ago.
She spoke to Sir Michael about the book, which has been turned into a play
by the National Theatre and a film by Steven Spielberg, inside the thatched pub.
Charles then arrived and was handed a pint of Bays Topsail, a local 4% beer, by landlord John Pittam, before heading to join his wife at a lunch club for elderly residents in the inn’s garden.
Mr Pittam, 61, told the prince: “This is on the house. Local Devon beer.”
After arriving at the lunch, Charles asked what was on the menu for those attending and was told it was fish and vegetables.
He replied: “Broad beans are one of my favourite things. It is quite warm. Have you all had some beer as well?”
Charles discussed the importance of people connecting with their food and asked whether local children grew vegetables at school.
He said: “Do they have the opportunity to grow their own vegetables in schools because that’s the other way of trying to reconnect?
“I always wish they could keep a chicken or two or a pig but it is always Health and Safety that wrecks it.”