King Charles quips he ‘cannot keep up with’ Princess Anne

King Charles is recalling sweet memories with younger sister Princess Anne.

His Majesty, who recently attended a garden party in Bermuda, touched upon their time as children travelling in Royal Yacht Britannia.

His Majesty then raised a toast to Bermuda on Friday and said: "I need hardly say that Bermuda, like all the Overseas Territories, is a most cherished and important member of the British family – with a friendship as solid as this so-called 'Rock'. And for my own family in particular.”

He added: “Bermuda has a distinctly fond resonance. Sadly, increasingly fewer of us are old enough to remember that my mother and father, the late Queen and late Duke of Edinburgh, made Bermuda the first stop of their Coronation Tour in 1953."

He added: "Of course, my parents visited on other occasions and, likewise, my sister, the Princess Royal, has been here numerous times – she goes everywhere in the world and I can't keep up with it."

He added that it "meant a very great deal" for him to be invited back.

"I am told to my amazement it is also the “first time” in Bermuda’s four-hundred-year history that the islands have received a reigning King," he said. "I am terribly sorry it has taken so long!"

"It has given me the greatest pleasure to meet so many special people from the islands, including as far as I can make out, half the population today."