Prince Charles has shared a warm hug with an eight-year-old fan.
The 68-year-old royal was visiting Jimmy’s Farm in Ipswich on Monday (05.06.17) when he met with eight-year-old Skye Skillen who just couldn’t resist giving "the best" royal a loving embrace.
Skye’s mother Tina Dranowski told the Daily Mail after their chance encounter with the future King: "She gave him a cuddle and then she asked him if he wanted to stroke one of the chickens and he did. He gave her a hug and he was smiling.
"I asked ‘Why did you hug him, Skye?’ and she said ‘Because he’s the best’. She likes the royals. She was a bit excited. I think she just wanted to meet him. She’s quite a cuddly, friendly child – very outgoing."
Prince Charles was being shown around the farm by TV presenter Jimmy Doherty, who is new president of The Rare Breeds Survival Trust which Charles is the royal patron of.
Jimmy told Charles about the farm’s education and rare breeds programme, after he and his wife Michaela first opened the site – which was documented in the BBC documentary series ‘Jimmy’s Farm’ – in 2002 to breed rare pigs.
Meanwhile, Prince Charles is known for being vocal about caring for the environment, and recently teamed up with Dame Ellen MacArthur in a bid to encourage scientists, entrepreneurs, retailers and industry figures to design packaging that uses less plastic and is recyclable because the easy-to-produce, cheap, material is flooding the economy and creating "huge damage" to the environment.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Prince’s International Sustainability Unit (ISU) launched the New Plastics Economy Innovation Prize, which has up to £1.5 million in grants available to the winners, at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
A report published by Dame Ellen’s foundation has claimed that the oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish – in weight – by 2050.
Charles explained: "The natural systems upon which we rely so heavily for our survival are circular by their very design; they do not create waste, but only materials for regeneration and new cycles of growth."
Prince Charles shares hug with young royal fan
