Camilla's 'secret trick' when King Charles is talking too much at public engagements

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Queen Consort Camilla has a secret trick that she pulls out to keep her husband King Charles on track at public engagements.

Camilla, 75, is known to tug on King Charles' jacket to let him know when to be quiet when they're out at events together and she thinks he's talking too much.The tactics have been revealed by their best pal and telly star Gyles Brandreth, who wrote all about how Camilla keeps Charles, 74, in line in his recent book Elizabeth.

He revealed: “When he gets tetchy - because the pen doesn’t work, as it didn’t when he was signing a document at Hillsborough Castle in County Down - she soothes him, putting out a hand and kneading him gently in the small of his back. “When he is running late or talking too much, she tugs discreetly at the back of his jacket – sometimes quite vigorously.” Camilla has previously been described to be Charles' strength and stay, just as his mother the Queen referred to her husband Prince Phillip.

Gyles said: “She is fundamental to the architecture of his life. “She is his good companion and best friend and, now that his children have left home, she is the only person in the entire world with whom he can be completely free and open. “Camilla is his strength and stay, the ally who knows him better than anyone and, now that he’s King, the only person who can still treat him as an equal." He continued to tell the readers: “I have watched them at close quarters – at Highgrove, before they were married and since, at Clarence House, at Buckingham Palace. “He adores her, clearly.