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PRINCE Charles today kicked off his annual summer tour of Wales with a visit to a cheese factory.

 

Prince Charles began his Wales summer tour with a visit to a cheese factory[PA]

The Prince of Wales who was joined by wife Camilla spent more than an hour-and-a-half at the award winning Caws Cenarth Cheese facility in Boncath.

The heir to the throne also got his hands of a 2.6kg wheel of Golden Cenarth which is made with cider from his Duchy estate.

Business owner Carwyn Adams showed Charles around the cheese factory and said the 65-year-old had done wonders to champion local producers.

He said: "It was fantastic to have him here today and I was quite impressed about how knowledgeable he was about food.

"The Prince last visited us in 1998, and he was impressed to see how much we had expanded since then."

The Prince of Wales spent more than an hour-and-a-half at the Caws Cenarth Cheese facility [PA]

It was fantastic to have him here today and I was quite impressed about how knowledgeable he was about food

Cheese factory owner Carwyn Adams

The factory produces around 100 tonnes of cheese per day and during his tour Charles was stopped in his tracks when he saw an eye catching photo.

The Prince of Wales admired a picture in the visitor's centre of grandmother Thelma Adams dressed as Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra while in a bath of milk.

The 75-year-old, who was at the facility for Charles's visit, posed in the photo to highlight the plight of dairy farmers.

And it was something the Queen's son was impressed with and congratulated her on.

Mrs Adams said: "He was incredibly charming."

Earlier in the day Prince Charles was shown how to smoke fish when he visited the gourmet food business the Cnwd Food Company in Cross Hands.

Based just outside Carmarthen it is run by former chef Scott Davis and Kirsty Manning.

The factory in Wales produces around 100 tonnes of cheese per day [PA]

After years of working alongside top chefs like Gary Rhodes and Marco Pierre White Carmarthenshire-born Mr Davis wanted to come home and create his own dishes.

He said: "Our pates and terrines are made using fresh, local ingredients, such as organic chicken livers, pedigree Welsh pork and wild Dinefwr estate venison.

"The location is very important to us and we take our inspiration and raw ingredients from the countryside."

The business also has a smokery and produces premium coracle caught smoked wild fish.

Prince Charles will be spending the week in Wales with Camilla going on Royal engagements [PA]

Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also visited the Melin Tregwynt woollen mill in Pembrokeshire.

It is now the seventh year since Prince Charles and the Duchess took up residence at the 192 acre Llwynywermod estate near Llandovery, west Wales.

Every summer they spend a week in the principality and take on a series of Royal engagements.

The tour continues tomorrow with six engagements on the itinerary.

Among them is a reception marking the centenary of poet Dylan Thomas' birth which will be attended by former Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews.