It had been 60 years since Prince Charles had seen his former nanny - but the pair were united in a chance encounter at the weekend.
The heart-warming and impromptu meeting between the future king and the woman who looked after him as a baby, 92-year-old Jacqui Botting, took place in Nelson on Saturday.
New Zealand-born Mrs Botting looked after Charles and his sister Anne in the early 1950s at Clarence House before returning home to marry, the Daily mail reported.
She now lives in a Nelson retirement home opposite the research centre Prince Charles visited on Saturday.
And his nanny was waiting outside - clutching a card signed by Queen Elizabeth as well as Prince Philip and Charles - for a chance to see him after his visit.
