The Hawke's Bay A and P Society remains hopeful of attracting a royal to the Royal Show, despite being unable to line up all the stars with a short New Zealand visit by the Prince of Wales next month.
Event general manager Brent Linn said royals had been invited to the show next Wednesday to Friday but with a tour by Prince Charles and Lady Camilla having yesterday been confirmed but excluding Hawke's Bay, the society is "working on" having a royal guest in the remaining years of Hawke's Bay's Royal Show tenure, in 2016 and 2017.
He said a tour this year by Prince Charles hadn't been "in the frame" when the Hawke's Bay society started making plans last year after the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand awarded the Bay the Royal Show rights for the three years.
But the society is keen to have Prince Charles, who is patron of the global Campaign for Wool.
Next week's show will, however, have one high-ranking visitor from the UK in Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth treasurer Andrew Gilmour, a Scottish farmer who is on a month-long visit to New Zealand.
