The monarch wanted to sign a visitors’ book, but turned the task over to Camila after misdating and angrily complaining that the pen had broken and stained her fingers.
King Charles III passed through Northern Ireland on Tuesday as part of his tour of the United Kingdom to lead national mourning after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The meeting with the main political parties at Hillsborough Castle was marked by the strictest protocol, but the video of a unusual incident of the king with a pen that went viral after the meeting showed that sometimes surprises happen.
After his meeting on the outskirts of Belfast with the main political representatives of Northern Ireland, King Charles III was preparing to sign a visitors’ book at Hillsborough Castle. The first moment of surprise comes at the beginning of the filming, when the monarch notes the wrong date for your signature.
“Today is the 12th of September,” the king asks the queen consort Camila and a group of aides, one of whom replies that it is actually the 13th. The king’s frustration becomes palpable as soon as he admits that he has He put the date wrong, to which is added Camila’s clarification that there was already “September 12” in another place.
“Oh God, how I hate this,” Carlos III is heard saying to Camila as he hands her the pen. It is at that moment that the queen consort seems to notice that the ink in the pen has overflowed and she stained the monarch’s fingers.
“I can’t tolerate that damn thing! It’s always the same, on every blessed occasion,” Carlos III complains angrily as he begins to clean his fingers and an assistant replaces the pen.
Frustrated, the king abruptly decides to leave the room seconded by his assistants while Camila sits down and completes the task of signing the couple’s pass by the castle.
The visit of King Charles III to Northern Ireland
Relations between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are not going through their best moment and, in Belfast, the Northern Irish parties do not agree to form a Government of shared power between unionists and nationalists due to the problems that are causing the protocol of the Brexit for the region.
In this context, the king, accompanied by his wife Camila, queen consort, promised this Tuesday to follow the “excellent example” of Elizabeth II and assured that he will work to ensure the “well-being” of “all the inhabitants” of Northern Ireland.
They were his first public words in the region as monarch, at the beginning of a new reign that will be a continuation of the line of reconciliation marked by his mother in recent years, also a great promoter of the normalization of relations between Dublin and London, now clouded by its divorce with Brussels.
It is therefore hoped that the British Head of State will know how to adapt to the current situation and facilitate a new climate of understanding.
With information from the EFE agency