The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined the King and Queen of the Zulus yesterday to mark the 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War.

Prince Charles, Camilla, King Goodwill Zwelithini and Queen Pumi watched a military display by a Zulu impi regiment in traditional leopard-skin uniform.

The couples met at the 100th annual Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys, also marking Charles’s 50th anniversary as the Prince of Wales.

Charles told King Goodwill Zwelithini, who he last met back in 2011: “You haven’t aged a bit.”

They marked the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, where just over 150 Welsh soldiers held off 4,000 Zulu warriors from breaking British lines for 10 straight hours in South Africa.

Yesterday, eight Victoria Cross medals given to survivors of the 1879 battle went on public display together for the first time, at the Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh, in Brecon, Mid Wales.

Meanwhile, we recently revealed reason 57,847,485 why the royals are in no way like us at all – their packing and travel arrangements.

Even though he does this very thing, Prince William isn't technically supposed to  travel on the same plane as George and Charlotte  because two royal heirs should never fly on the same flight together.

Royals also all have to take a black mourning outfit in their luggage,  in case a family member dies .

So whereas planning and packing for a holiday is, for us plebs, a happy and exciting process, it's actually a bit of a morbid affair in parts for the Royal family .

But it gets super-grisly where the Queen and Prince Charles are involved, as they both have to have a bag of their own blood with them on extended trips.

According to  Marie Claire , the Queen and her heir travel with a pack of their own blood, looked after by a navy doctor who is always close by.

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