Queen Camilla has joined King Charles in Guernsey for the second day of the visit to the Channel Islands and was seen sporting a bandage after suffering a painful injury while in Jersey yesterday
Queen Camilla has been spotted wearing a bandage after suffering a painful inujury on a royal visit.
Today, she and King Charles travelled to Guernsey for the second day of their visit to the Channel Islands, where they were welcomed at St Peter Port. Camilla’s right ankle was strapped as she sat for the welcome ceremony – it is understood it stems from an ankle sprain she sustained yesterday, when the couple visited Jersey.
The strapping on her ankle was visible as Charles presided over a short special sitting of the States of Deliberation, Guernsey’s Parliament. The States sitting will be followed by a Ceremony of Homage, a tradition that is observed when the monarch first visits Guernsey.
Both Charles and Camilla, who turns 77 tomorrow, had an eventful day yesterday in Jersey. Not only did Camilla seemingly suffer her ankle sprain, the couple were also rushed out of an open air expo in Jersey due to a security scare. Charles and Camilla were told to cut short their third engagement of the day at Weighbridge Place and taken into the nearby Pomme D’or hotel.
After a brief hiatus of around 20 minutes the King and Queen were taken back outside to meet local schoolchildren before being welcomed as guests to a tea party. A royal source said: “There was a small issue of concern, an investigation turned out to be a false alarm, every precaution was taken and the programme resumed shortly afterwards.”
But on a lighter note, the pair were left in stitches after spotting two “frisky” female cows. Camilla had leaned over to stroke one of the iconic cream-coloured animals when another one mounted it. She corpsed and held her hands up in helpless laughter.
Camilla was officially presented with the herd of seven milking heifers as a gift, which was originally selected as a Platinum Jubilee gift for Queen Elizabeth in 2022 by the Jersey Milk Marketing Board and the Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
However, following her death and the King’s accession, arrangements were made to ship the heifers to Windsor, but one of the leading herds on the island suffered the tragic loss of a large proportion of their milking herd. It meant a devastating loss of milk supply as the island does not allow live animals to be imported. It means herds can only be replaced by existing breeding animals.
When King Charles heard about the incident and efforts by the island’s milk cooperative to replace the herd, he gifted back the heifers to assist with the restocking programme. Now that the islands herds are back to their full glory, a new herd is being given back to the King.
The two-day visit to the Channel Islands comes as Charles returns to some public duties, despite his continued treatment for cancer. The King is known as the Duke of Normandy on the Channel Islands, dating from when William the Conqueror’s son, Henry I, seized the Duchy of Normandy, including the islands, in 1106.
Tomorrow the pair will be back in London for the ceremonial State Opening of Parliament, where Charles will read the King’s speech prepared by the new Labour government.
