King Charles and Queen Camilla were spotted on their way home to their private residence of Highgrove near Tetbury - just hours after the Coronation.
Footage shot by the deputy manager of the town's Snooty Fox Hotel, Richard Burton, captures as a cavalcade of police cars escort the newly crowned couple back to Highgrove House.
Cheers of delight can be heard from pub goers who have gathered outside to watch the couple speed through the town.
The journey is at least two hours long and the couple were spotted just after 6pm, suggesting they left Buckingham Palace after the private informal lunch they enjoyed with family.
Tetbury resident Claire Eugster who was out walking her dog when she spotted the King and Queen, told Stroud Times: “I just popped out to walk my dog and saw the King and Queen and their convoy drive past. It was an amazing sight and I wasn’t expecting it all. Camilla’s hair looked beautiful, but the procession was over in a minute so I didn’t see that much.”
One delighted resident added on social media: "What a day to end our day sitting in the Snooty and the king & queen passed by can’t believe we saw them!"
The King and the Queen enjoyed a post-coronation lunch with the royal family and Camilla’s nearest and dearest at Buckingham Palace after completing their public duties.
They were joined by a host of royals, as well as Camilla’s relatives including, most likely, her sister and trusted confidante Annabel Elliot, her children Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes, and her grandchildren, for the private celebration with their blended family.
The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis also headed back back to the famous royal residence following the historic ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
Highgrove House
The 18th-century countryside estate near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, serves as the private home of King Charles and his wife Queen Consort Camilla, and is something of a sanctuary for the King.
Charles, a passionate gardener, has spent more than 40 years devoting his energy to transforming the gardens around the house, which are now visited by thousands of people every year.
Archive photographs from Clarence House show Charles, aged in his 30s, with secateurs in one hand and a cutting of a shrub in the other, dressed casually in an opened-necked checked shirt and belted chinos, as he walks through the meadow in front of Highgrove.
The organic gardens opened annually to the public in 1994 and in 2019 Clarence House said tours, along with events, retail and catering at Highgrove have raised more than £7 million for charity over the past quarter of a century.
The estate was acquired by Charles in 1980, when it had only a kitchen garden, an overgrown copse, some pastureland and a few hollow oaks.
Charles has said of the gardens: "One of my greatest joys is to see the pleasure that the garden can bring to many of the visitors and that everybody seems to find some part of it that is special to them."
Each year, the estate – which also has an Orchard Tea Room – typically welcomes around 40,000 visitors.
While Charles loves to spend time there, the property is actually owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, which has been inherited by his son Prince William.
So really, the new Duke of Cornwall will be his landlord if the King continues to reside there.
