One of King Charles ' former classmates claims he kept the monarch's hair clippings for 50 years after they frequented the same barber shop.
The new monarch attended Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia, for two terms as an exchange student back in 1966.
His classmate, Richard Kumnick, says he pocketed a lock of the young royal's hair as a 'memento' after going for a haircut immediately after Charles.
He has since kept it in an envelope for five decades.
Mr Kumnick told Nine News : “The then Prince Charles was waiting to get his hair cut and I was waiting for his to be completed.
He continued: “I noticed his hair drop onto the floor. It was all his because he was the first one to have his haircut.
“I must say it's a different colour than the hair we see today."
Richard said Charles had been a prefect at the school and once caught him smoking but didn’t snitch to a teacher.
He added: “It was a dark room on the side of our living quarters and I was having a Marlboro and he happened to pop into the boiler room.
“I don't know whether he called me Kumnick or not but he said, ‘I will have those thank you’.
“I was pleased that that was as far as it went because if it had gone any further I would have ended up in Mr Hanley's office.”
Asked whether he reckoned Charles would make a good monarch, Richard said: “Oh, I think he will be in the same vein as his mother.
“He would be perfect. I'm a royalist big time. I didn't think the time would come. I thought, maybe Charles would be too old.”
King Charles succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth II as monarch on Thursday evening after she died 'peacefully' at her home on the Balmoral estate in Scotland.
The following day, he addressed the nation as King for the first time in a heartfelt speech which was broadcast to the nation.
Paying tribute to his 'darling mama', he praised her for her 'lifetime of dedicated service', while also appointing his eldest son William and wife Kate Middleton as the new Prince and Princess of Wales.
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