IN CORNWALL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE CORONATION THE KING AND QUEEN THRILL LOCALS AND HOLIDAYMAKERS ON A ROYAL WALKABOUT

Making their first visit to Cornwall since their coronation, the King and Queen received a rapturous welcome from crowds in St Ives.

- EMILY NASH

Holidaymakers, locals, children, babies and dogs lined the streets of the picturesque seaside town, with royal fans calling out: “God Save the King – and Queen Camilla, too.”

Their Majesties shook hands and chatted to well-wishers as they strolled down to the harbour to meet lifeboat crew and lifeguards at the RNLI station, where the Queen was presented with a posy of flowers by three-year-old Ada Cocking, who was there with her sister Violet, eight, and their parents, coxswain Rob and his wife Charlotte.

Charlotte said: “The Queen said she loved Ada’s dress and that’s made her day. Violet kept pointing at the King, getting closer and closer, and asking if he really was King Charles. I had to tell her: ‘Violet, you mustn’t prod the King!’”