King of spades
Daily Record|May 10, 2023
Return to work as Charles digs in and Kate & Wills host garden party
AMY-CLARE MARTIN
King of spades

KING Charles and senior royals were still hard at work yesterday after a long weekend of Coronation celebrations.

The monarch, 74, broke ground for a new laboratory to help speed up the development of net zero aviation in his first official engagement since being crowned.

He toured Cambridge University's Whittle Laboratory, which has recently secured funding to develop a new £58million lab.

As he walked to perform the breaking of the ground, where a lump of mud was visible on the grass, he said: "Don't tell me it's already been done?" The green-fingered royal joked before digging up the turf: "It's very unfair. I was rather looking forward to doing a bit of gardening.

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