Midsummer madness: Prince Charles horses around in the Channel Islands

Prince Charles is being quite the action man on his visit to the Channel Islands, gamely joining in with every activity that has come his way.

Despite his dapper double-breasted suit and highly-polished brogues, Prince Charles was keen to let his playful side shine forth as he joined with everything from wall-climbing to plate spinning on a Diamond Jubilee trip this week.

The Prince turned court jester as he larked around - looking naughty eating honey and dancing with gusto under a multi-coloured parachute. What would his mother say?

Most unexpected of all, however, was the sight of the 63-year-old heir to the throne making a seemingly impromptu dash for a climbing wall.

The Duchess of Cornwall seemed as taken aback as the fellow dignitaries and gasped in mock horror as he shimmied along the wall in his slippery brogues.

John McGuinness, head teacher of Grainville School, where Charles demonstrated his climbing prowess, said: ‘The Prince did quite a stretch in his suit and he drew a gasp from everyone.

The young people in the gym they were taken with this and he will have earned some street cred with them.’

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