King Charles couldn’t resist playing the steel pans at a palace reception as he kicked off the countdown for next month’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
The King and Queen hosted a CHOGM reception at St James’s Palace ahead of their trip to Antigua and Barbuda next month.
They were joined by the Duchess of Gloucester and guests from across the ‘family of nations’.
Chatting to steelpan musician Khan Cordice, the Director of Culture for Antigua and Barbuda, His Majesty played a few notes and said to him: ‘I can’t do it as good as you.’
Khan joked afterwards: ‘I’m going to give
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