Stationery shenanigans are becoming something of a trademark for Britain’s newly-crowned monarch. After Saturday’s pen-pushing fiasco, which saw the king exasperated by a rogue box of pens in his way, Charles was once again thwarted at the hands of a leaky nib. Signing a visitors’ book to mark his appearance at Northern Ireland’s Hillsborough Castle, Charles already had his knickers in a twist over accidentally writing the wrong date, when his pen decided to join in the fun by spewing ink all over his hands.
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