An eager crowd of fans and curious tourists turned out to welcome Prince Charles and his wife Camilla in Auckland's Aotea Square.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have been welcomed onto Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia.

For four days, an elderly British couple have been shuffling around the country, beaming inanely and muttering platitudes.

Prince Charles and The Duchess of Cornwall have continued their tour of New Zealand, greeting the Defence Force, prisoners and members of the public.

Prince Charles is anxious about what he will say to Wallaby-supporters when he heads across the ditch next week.

It was a heart-stopping moment that could have had painful consequences for the Prince of Wales. Prince Charles yelped with fright as he had an uncomfortably close encounter with a bumble bee on his tour of New Zealand with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. The insect - which packs a painful sting - made a beeline for the heir to the throne and flew up his double-breasted jacket during a visit to the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, near Dunedin.

Prince loses his composure as bee with painful sting flies up his double-breasted jacket.

Prince Charles did not know what was coming when a 69-year-old Dunedin woman went in for a pash today.

Students excited to meet Prince Charles, with one expecting to get a "million dollars" after royal handshake.

Dunedin has turned on a sunny day and crowds are turning out to welcome Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, to the city today. The royal couple, who winged their way down from Wellington after a couple of engagements in the capital this morning, arrived on time at Dunedin Airport to be greeted by just a handful of supporters.

Tricia Turner has seen every royal visit since 1953 when she was 13 and a young Queen Elizabeth II wowed New Zealand. "I'm a royalist through and through," Ms Turner said. She kept that up yesterday in Wellington when she joined a couple of hundred well rugged-up and soaking royal watchers at the national war memorial, where Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, laid a wreath.

Prince admits he was "slightly anxious" of what he would find on his visit to our shores if the All Blacks had failed to keep it.

In a globalised world it is no longer appropriate to have a head of state who is not a New Zealander, writes Peter Hamilton. An absentee head of state who is also foreign no longer accords with how we see ourselves.

It must be tempting for the royal family to simply give up on New Zealand and Australia.

Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall have a dramatic day in store, with visits to musical performances, an animation studio and a "wool event" on their agenda.

The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall laid a wreath at the Memorial before greeting former soldiers.

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have landed in New Zealand only to be greeted by bad weather.

A small but hardy crowd turned out at the National War Memorial Park for the first public event of the Royal Tour.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will be officially welcomed to New Zealand tomorrow by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae in Wellington. The Prince and Duchess will then begin a seven day visit in New Zealand.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will be officially welcomed to New Zealand tomorrow as they begin their seven day visit.

Rugby royalty are due to arrive in New Zealand on the same day as another royal party - Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.

John Key sat down with the Queen - and her dogs - this morning in a meeting at Windsor Castle.

The royals are set to visit New Zealand next week and details of their trip have been released.

Duchess of Cambridge outshines Bond girls at Spectre's glitzy royal premiere.

Dog lovers have accused the Queen's Sandringham estate of putting their pets' lives at risk by failing to warn them about a killer disease in its woodland.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are united in most aspects of their parenting, but on one issue, it seems, there is trouble ahead.

The Duchess of Cambridge gave a nod to royal history by wearing the Queen Mother's fan-motif tiara.

Barely two years after full diplomatic relations were restored, Xi said his four-day visit would lift the bilateral relationship to "a new height".

Prince William will record a television programme highlighting the threat to endangered species posed by the trade in illegal wildlife products.

Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and his wife Princess Sofia, a former reality show starlet, are expecting their first child in April.