His Nibs strikes again!
This time it’s a leaking pen in King Charles’ bad books
AFTER an awkward interaction with an obstructive pen tray on Saturday, he might have hoped to turn over a new leaf.
But King Charles was again seen venting his frustration over a fountain pen yesterday – complaining they leak ‘every stinking time’ while signing a visitors’ book.
The King was at Royal Hillsborough Castle near Belfast ahead of a service of reflection at St Anne’s Cathedral. While signing a book, the new monarch first exclaimed ‘Oh God, I’ve put the wrong date down!’, before passing the pen to Camilla, the Queen Consort, as she pointed out he had got the date wrong earlier in the day too.
As he stood, Charles looked down at his finger which had apparently been stained with ink from the fountain pen. ‘Oh God, I hate this,’ he declared.
Camilla was then caught on camera saying: ‘Oh look, it’s going everywhere, hang on,’ while holding the pen out in her right hand.
The loathed pen was then taken away by an aide while she
appeared to wipe her fingers with her other hand.
In the background, the King can be heard saying: ‘I can’t bear this bloody thing! [It’s] what they do, every stinking time,’ wiping his fingers with a paper handkerchief.
Camilla then used a different pen to sign the book.
It follows Charles’s animated scenes at St James’s Palace on Saturday, when he irritably motioned to an aide to move a pen box – which was getting in the way – from his desk as he went to sign the historic Proclamation.