This is the touching moment Queen Camilla showed her affection for King Charles III whilst on their state visit to Kenya.
Hands on the bum
Camilla briefly pat his majesty on the bum during their visit to the Nairobi National Park on Wednesday, November 1.
The Queen’s fleeting display of love was picked up on camera and posted on Instagram.
The clip was uploaded onto the social media platform by the account royal_updates_uk, with the caption: ‘Steady on Camilla!’.
The caring act took place as the King and Queen were viewing the work of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage.
The King and Queen have just completed their five-day state visit to their African country, their first to a Commonwealth country since the King’s accession to the throne.
Scenes at National park
Whilst at the National Park on Wednesday, the Queen got the chance to feed an orphaned baby elephant on November 1.
The royal couple watched a herd of orphaned elephants at play at the specialist wildelife centre. fed orphaned elephant calf Mzinga, one of the centre’s youngest at a year old, she said, ‘They look very content, very happy.’
Camilla was wearing a Liberty cotton elephant and peacock print dress by Fiona Clare with a pair of practical and clearly well-worn brown ankle boots.
As she was introduced to the keepers, many who had worked at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust for decades, she said: ‘Everybody knows everybody, that’s so nice.’
The Queen was shown around by Angela Sheldrick, whose mother Dame Daphne founded the orphanage.
She was introduced to head keeper Edwin Lusichi, who has worked at the centre for more than 20 years, and the other keepers, before the baby elephant had a mud bath.
They explained that elephants often indulge in a mud bath to form a layer on their skin to protect them from insects and sunburn.