Prince Charles has marked his 73rd birthday with a photograph of him sitting on a bench in Highgrove.
The future king is pictured smiling at the camera against the backdrop of verdant gardens at his home in the summer in Gloucestershire.
He is wearing a blue pinstripe suit, light blue tie and dotted pocket square, while a purple flower adorns his lapel.
Charles will spend his birthday attending the annual Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph.
He will lay a wreath on the top step of the Cenotaph on behalf of the Queen, who has just pulled out of the ceremony honouring Britain’s war dead after spraining her back.
It comes as the 95-year-old monarch has missed several other events after being ordered to rest by royal doctors just over three weeks ago. She spent a night in hospital on October 20 undergoing preliminary tests.
On Thursday, Charles reassured a bystander about the Queen’s health as he met people in Brixton, south London.
One man asked him: ‘Prince Charles. How is your mother?’
Charles gave him an encouraging pat on the arm, and appeared to say: ‘She’s all right, thank you.’
The royal received an early birthday cake as he welcomed organisations that have been recognised by the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise to a reception at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.
Jo Taylor, owner of Reach and Rescue, a company making telescopic rescue poles for emergency personnel, gave him the cake.
Ms Taylor said: ‘The prince laughed and said, ‘You’ve been doing your research on me’, and he slipped the card into his left pocket.’
Charles recently attended the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, where he told world leaders that ‘we need to put our words and commitments into practice’.
Among the long-time environmentalist’s own efforts to reduce his carbon footprint is eating less meat and dairy products and converting his Aston Martin to run on cheese and wine by-products.
He began placing a Remembrance wreath on his mother’s behalf in 2017, with the change seen as a subtle shift of head-of-state duties.
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