And before you can say “cucumber sandwich” the pair will arrive on Aussie soil, landing first in Adelaide then moving onto the regional South Australian town of Tanunda.
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The prince is expected to be presented with a cake at the engagement which comes at the end of a 12-day visit to Australia and New Zealand from 4 to 15 November.
November 4: Charles and Camilla arrive in Wellington.
On November 8, King Tuheitia Paki will host Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia.
The couple last visited New Zealand and Australia in 2012 to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Prince Charles will celebrate his 67th birthday with an Australian BBQ near a beach where he enjoyed an infamous embrace with a bikini clad beauty 36 years earlier.
The Royal couple wind up their tour in Auckland on Tuesday where The Prince of Wales will visit Nga Rangatahi Toa Creative Arts Initiative and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit the Bellyful Charity.
Camilla will attend a literary reception at Otago University, where Dunedin’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature will be celebrated. Meanwhile in Perth, His Royal Highness will hear about the efforts of the Western Australian Seed Technology Centre to preserve Western Australia’s biodiversity.
Not to be overlooked on this tour is the strong relationship with the military in both countries. And in Wellington, the royal couple will lay a wreath at the National War Memorial.
The Prince of Wales will also travel to Westport to participate in the Defence Force’s Exercise Southern Katipo.
Charles, who in theory will be King of Australia and New Zealand one day, also faces a potentially delicate meeting with Australia’s new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra on Remembrance Day, November 11. Charles will also attend the National Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial. For instance, The Prince and Duchess will have the opportunity to meet people in urban and rural areas across both countries and to learn how communities support one another. There will also be a visit to the Spirit of New Zealand. It is The Duchess of Cornwall’s second visit to both countries.
Details of New Zealand’s latest royal visit have been revealed this morning – and once again the Bay of Plenty is missing from the list of destinations.
It will be a return to Turangawaewae for Charles, who visited in 1994, but will be his first time there with his wife Camilla.
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Two years later the prince was married to Princess Diana.
