Highlights from the second day of King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit to Kenya
bottle fed baby elephants as she and the King rounded off the second day of their Kenyan tour with a visit to an elephant orphanage.Camilla said, after feeding formula milk to a year-old calf called Mzinga.The royal couple were at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, which rescues young calves who have lost their mothers before rehabilitating them and releasing them back into the wild. Since 1977 they have raised 316 orphan elephants and 17 rhinos.
"I really am so pleased, if I may say so, to give you these after all these years," the King said, as he presented Samwel with his medals, including the Burma Star. "I hope they’re all there. You are amazing – does great age run in the family? You must have been having wild locusts and honey all these years, well done.
Over at the UN crowds of staff, who had been allowed to bring their children and partners to work that day, cheered with excitement as the King walked into the building.
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