King Charles struggles with leaking pen at Hillsborough Castle
Everybody has their moments – even members of the Royal Family. And while King Charles is pretty unflappable by nature, on a handful of occasions he has been spotted a little less than impressed. Body language expert Judi James spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk about the King’s supposedly “bad moods in public”.
Judi began: “Charles’s public displays of tetchiness have always been eclipsed by his father’s famously volcanic moods that would often be quite openly displayed when Philip’s irritability, annoyance or frustration got the better of him, but Charles had proved himself to be his father’s son on more than one occasion.”
Charles’ first “public bad mood” was in 1953 when he was around five years old at an incredibly important royal event.
Judi said: “As Charles contemplates and plans for his own coronation, he might need to be reminded what his young self was doing at his mother’s coronation back in 1953.”
The body language expert referenced a photo where the young Charles rested his head on his curled up fist.
“Charles was mainly a well-behaved child but this iconic pose showed he was able to illustrate his sense of boredom during the ceremony.
“Little Louis might be under pressure to behave impeccably at his grandfather’s coronation but if he does get rather playful perhaps someone could remind Charles his own behaviour wasn’t always impeccable.”
Decades later when Charles was a grown man, he was spotted in another “bad mood” in public, with his frustration directed at then wife Diana.
Judi recalled: “In the days when they were supposedly in love, Diana would watch Charles playing polo and often seat herself on one of his cars or Jeeps to look as glam as all the other polo wives.
“Unfortunately she made the mistake of sitting on his Aston Martin and Charles’s reaction was stormy and furious to say the least,” she claimed.
“As Diana stood away with her arms folded Charles looked furious and spent a long time examining a non-existent dent in the bonnet.”
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Just a few years later in 1991, the dynamic between the couple had changed.
Indeed, they had “got to the point where trying to hide or mask their feelings for one another was no longer an option and the body language signals of their rift were undeniably visible to the naked eye”.
Judi claimed: “While Diana seemed to adopt a look of utter sadness and submission, sitting with her head tilted to one side or looking away from her husband, Charles would adopt a pose of total rejection, sitting looking down at his hands as though having washed them of his troublesome wife.”
Diana would throw the occasional “slightly coy glance” at her husband suggesting she “might be open to some form of approach”, but his “deep frown and the finger-picking showed little more than frustration or suppressed anger”, the expert suggested.
In 2005, Charles would have gotten away with a “public bad mood” if it weren’t for microphones picking up his cross words.
During a skiing holiday with William and Harry, the royal trio had a press call where Charles’ “muttered asides” were picked up without him realising, showing that his “genial grins were all an act”.
“His ‘I hate doing this’ comment was mild compared to his verbal pelting of Nicholas Witchell.
“‘Bloody people, I can’t stand that man’ was proof there was no love from Charles towards the press pack that followed him,” the expert claimed.
Charles’ most recent “bad mood” in public was just last year after the death of his mother, taking the form of a two-part battle between Charles and a troublesome piece of stationary.
Judi explained: “Two incidents in succession showed the new King was totally able to throw a mini-tantrum in public when he saw fit.
“Both involved pens, the first being his iconic signing the proclamation in London, when some sort of pen-holder appeared to have been in his way.
“His hand-flapping was performed at the kind of rate that signals high levels of frustration and irritation and his lower jaw jut bared his lower line of teeth in a way that emphasised that inner anger.”
The second instance showed Charles as a man “taking it personally now”, as his pen began to leak all over his fingers.
He rose to his feet as he said “fuming” that he “can’t bear this bloody thing, every stinking time!”
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