Royal treatment - Charles and Camilla visit Donegal

IT’S not every day ordinary customers rub shoulders with a couple of royals at the local butcher’s shop.

But that’s what happened in Donegal when Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla paid an official visit to the county yesterday, dropping in to see what tasty morsels the award-winning local butcher could tempt them with.

Just as his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, chatted with stallholders at the English Market when she visited Cork, the future king, an aficionado of organic products, sampled the best of Donegal pork, beef, and lamb, followed by a visit to a factory to see the famous tweeds, before taking the scenic route to Glenveagh Castle and National Park.