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King Charles has officially wrapped up his tour of the Caribbean, which a palace aide called a “complex visit.” In the span of just nine days, Charles and Queen Camilla visited the Bahamas, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda. That’s a lot of traveling for the 77-year-old king, so how is he holding up after the trip?
According to a senior palace aide, Charles is getting by. “I think probably the best response to that is a picture of a man about to turn 78 wangling the cowbells as he jives down the street in nearly 40 degree heat,” the aide said, per Hello!. “When the engagement finished, I get in the car next to him and say: ‘Crikey, I’m hot.’ He says, ‘Oh, never mind.’ So no, he copes. I mean, frankly, he copes better with it than I do, and I’m younger than him.”
“This is literally what he was born to do, he’s very good at it, and he enjoys the reaction he gets from people in the doing of it,” they added.
However, t...