The one thing that 'irritates' Prince Charles about fans

He’s first in line to take over the British throne but there’s one part of the job that Prince Charles isn’t looking forward to.

The 70-year-old, who has spent his life greeting fans all over the world, apparently gets very frustrated by one thing members of the public try to do.

The revelation has been exposed in a recent documentary about the future king, called Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70.

“He gets irritated by people poking their phones at them,” documentary maker John Birdcut, who followed the prince around for a year, told Vanity Fair.

“He wants to meet people, and it irritates him getting camera phones shoved in his face.”

Indeed, he’s not the only member of the royal family to have expressed their distaste for smartphones.

In 2015, Prince Harry was in Australia to join the Australian Defence Force for a month when he told a fan in Canberra that he ‘hates selfies’

“Seriously, you need to get out of it,” he told the young woman, who had waited for hours to get a snap of the prince.

“I know you’re young, but selfies are bad. Just take a normal photograph!”

Prince Harry previously spoke out about his dislike for social media when he gave a speech at the One of Us mental health campaign in London in 2017.

“People are spending far too much time online and it’s like a mental running machine that they can’t get off.”

He added that he thinks people need to switch off and speak to each other more.
However, maybe his wife, Meghan Markle, has talked the prince around to capturing memories with his fans, as on their recent tour of Australia, the pair were snapped taking part in a number of selfies.

Despite this, Meghan warned One Wave surfing community group when she visited them on the shores of Bondi Beach in October about the dangers of social media.

“She said you have to be really careful with social media,” Lyn Malcolm, who was part of the group, told Yahoo Lifestyle.

“She said it’s important to feel really ok within yourself regardless of what happens on social media. You might get lots and lots of likes and one dislike and you feel terrible.

“All of it doesn’t really matter, it’s all about how you can get to feel within yourself. That was really powerful.”

Meghan was an avid Instagram fan before she met Prince Harry and she even had her own blog, called The Tig.

She would regularly post pictures to her Instagram account of her in various yoga poses, her beloved dogs and her cozy apartment.

However, in January 2018 all of her photos vanished, just two months after her then fiancé, Prince Harry, released a statement claiming Meghan ‘has been subject to a wave of abuse and harassment’.

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