He is never the last for the walkabouts and Prince Charles proved it again on Tuesday February 1: the future King of England went to meet the inhabitants of the Chinatown district, in London, on the occasion Lunar New Year.
The 73-year-old Prince of Wales made the trip to this famous corner of the capital, wedged between Covent Garden and Soho, to see the festivities linked to the Lunar New Year which marks the transition to the New Year for the Chinese community. . Charles, without a protective mask against the coronavirus since the maligned Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted the obligation, was accompanied for the occasion by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla. The couple was able to listen to music, chat with people dressed in traditional costumes, admire a parade of articulated animals – it’s the year of the Tiger – or even visit some local businesses.
A very appreciable moment of relaxation for Prince Charles, whose family life has become complicated between his son Harry, with whom relations are strained, and his brother Prince Andrew, in turmoil in the face of justice. For the next king, it is also an opportunity to maintain his popularity, to whom some of the British still continue today to reproach him for his attitude from the time of his marriage to the late princess of hearts, Lady Diana. ..
As a reminder, on Sunday February 6, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her 70th anniversary of reign! No living monarch will have been on the throne as long as her. And if some hope that it will be Prince William who succeeds him, nothing indicates that Charles is ready to leave him the place. Traditionally, February 6 is for her a bittersweet day of private contemplation at the royal estate of Sandringham. Because it is both the date of her accession to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25, but also that of the death of her father King George VI from lung cancer at the age of 56, to which she was very attached…