The Prince of Wales expressed pride in one of his protegees today when he was reunited with a woman he helped set up in a bakery business.
What made Charles happier still is that she is now making plenty of dough.
He met Isadora Popovic, who started off in business with a £2,000 grant from The Prince's Trust in 1999.
She now runs an artisan bakery and cafe as well as an allied market stall company with a combined turnover of £1 million a year.
The Prince, 70, met Ms Popovic when he and the Duchess of Cornwall visited Swiss Cottage Farmers' Market in north London on Tuesday to mark 20 years of London farmers' markets operating in the capital.
The Serbian businesswoman, who came to Britain in 1991 to study art at Goldsmiths, University of London, has supplied Charles' shop at Highgrove with a selection of products on sale in her Mayfair cafe and more than 20 markets around the capital.
“Has it been a successful operation since you started it?” he asked her. “I'm very proud of you after all these years.”
Ms Popovic, 45, said afterwards: “He meets hundreds of people but I was very pleased that he recognised me.”
Charles and Camilla spent around an hour touring the market, where students from the nearby Royal Central School of Speech and Drama treated the couple to a “flashmob” performance of a ''Who WIll Buy?" from Oliver!
They left festooned with gifts of food from the traders who tried typical market flannel on the royal visitors.
When the Prince went to a stall selling Charlie's Trout, from Pulborough, West Sussex, trader David Austin-White told him: “We were that impressed with your architectural policies in London, we named it after you.”
Charles looked at him, laughed replied: “Oh come on. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.”
At a neighbouring stall selling Morghew Farms potatoes from Tenterden, Kent, the Prince was particularly interested in an Austrian variety of spud called Linzer Delikatess and began taking ones out of a box.
“Ruin the display, why don't you?” trader Steve Whitehead said, jokingly, before offering him some.
"I'll buy them, for God's sake,” said Charles but it looked as if he was given them for free in the end.
The Prince, an enthusiastic organic farmer, was keenly interested in all of the produce. He was impressed by Fosse Meadows, a Leicestershire company selling chicken reared for 81 days, longer than organic standards, to ensure the best flavour.
“It's all about the flavour,” Charles said, before waxing lyrical about extra thick Guernsey cream on a neighbouring stall. “The best cream ever,” he said.
