Royal birthday surprise

Wellington woman Jenny Clark, who was born two days before Prince Charles in 1948, wrote to the Prince as a joke inviting him to her 60th birthday party, not imagining she would receive a reply.

First she got a letter from his staff, then a couple of days later a courier package arrived with Buckingham Place on the envelope.

She thought her husband was playing a joke, "But when I opened it, I found it contained a tin of Prince Charles' own shortbread.

Duchy Originals, along with a handwritten letter from the Prince".

- NZ Herald