The rumors started, keen students of the Windsors will recall, with a leaky pen.
In September 2022, shortly after King Charles III ascended the throne after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, he was signing the visitors’ book at Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland when he encountered a particularly troublesome pen.
“Oh God, I hate this!” the newly minted monarch exclaimed as he handed the pen over to his wife, Queen Camilla, “I can’t bear this bloody thing! What they do… every stinking time!”
