Duchess Camilla waves knife (jokingly) at Prince Charles on wine tour

The former royal maid who has returned to live in her homeland of Australia said: “Camilla thought it was such a amusing thing, Prince Charles said “that was such a long time ago, I don’t remember” – I hope he doesn’t think I was stalking him”. “Welcome to A***-tralia”, blared the headline in Sydney’s tabloid Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday.

“I don’t like the way this is going, it’s rather silly”, she said. I was guiding him around the event. It is just a amusing camera angle, ‘ she said, according to Sky.

From the sanctuary of a dry golf buggy Camilla was able to take her fill of roo sightings as they dutifully appeared on the greener-than-green grounds.

The Head of the corps, Brigadier Cheryl Pearce, said: “It’s a real honour to have the Duchess here, when she became our Colonel-in-Chief in 2012 it was just the start of a tradition and we want to continue with her into the future”.

An estimated nine millimetres of rain fell on Canberra during the whirlwind eight-hour visit, according to the Bureau of Meteorology – the rain a “blessing” for Australia, Prince Charles was heard to say on arrival at the War Memorial for the official Remembrance Day ceremony.

Eight police horses, standing 16 hands or above by regulation, trotted in figure of eights and stopped a stand-in troublemaker as their royal highnesses watched on at the New South Wales mounted police headquarters in Sydney’s inner west.

Parent Herald recently reported that Queen Elizabeth’s first choices were Prince William and Kate Middleton, but her advisors think that both still need more time and training to assume the throne.

The museum is also about to launch a scholarship programme for indigenous communities, in a partnership with The Prince’s Charities Australia.

The entourage travelling with the royal couple.

The duchess went to food supply charity OzHarvest and the prince to Macquarie Group for an emergency services roundtable.

Part of the reason that Turnbull dodged an explicit statement on the issue has to do with the cleverly-timed date of the Prince’s visit.

She was joined by hundreds of excited people who had turned out to see the royals at Martin Place in the heart of Australia’s largest city, with many straining to capture photographs of the couple on their mobile phones.