How Prince Charles will celebrate his 67th birthday

The arrival in the capital of Australia’s future king Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, sparked only small crowds but substantial traffic chaos as Remembrance Day, royal traffic protocols and steady drizzle combined to create a flawless storm for drivers on Canberra’s roads on Wednesday.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Adelaide, Australia on November 10 for their royal tour of the country.

Prince Charles touched town in Adelaide on Tuesday, the first British royal to visit Australia since staunch republican Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, amid a revived debate over whether Canberra is ready to ditch its monarchy ties.

Asked if he were happy about that, the prime minister replied: “I am a happy person”.

Despite previously claiming Australians would not want Prince Charles as head of state, he took a more diplomatic approach yesterday.

But Turnbull said Wednesday he had no doubt that Charles with succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Two days before the groping incident Duchess Camilla was photographed pointing a rather large knife at the heir-to-the throne while touring a winery in South Australia.

“He said he remembered and I said, “so long ago?’ He said ‘yes”, wheelchair-bound Dunne told the Sydney Morning Herald, adding that she also spoke to Camilla, Queen of Prince Wales.

Famously, New Idea magazine, then owned by Rupert Murdoch, scooped the world in 1993 with publication of the so-called Camillagate transcripts – the intimate phone conversations between Prince Charles and Camilla, with whom he was then having an affair.

“If Charles becomes the King of the United Kingdom… unless our Constitution has been changed, he will become the King of Australia”, he said. I guess they do now.

A source said: “It’s been a wonderful tour which the couple have really enjoyed and it’s just one of those things”.

Camilla revealed that Charles has a penchant for a certain dessert when she visited the Sydney headquarters of OzHarvest, an organisation which provides charities who feed those in need with unwanted produce from restaurants and other food outlets.

The bad weather held off for most of the event, allowing the royal couple to spend most of their time mingling with guests including a mix of politicians, Perth celebrities and frontline emergency service workers.