Hitting the gym isn’t most people’s idea of a good time – and Prince Charles showed he’s just like the rest of us when he made a quip about fitness equipment during a recent engagement.
The Prince of Wales was visiting a police station in King’s Lynn, a few kilometres from the Queen’s private Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the Royal Family gather every Christmas, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s country home of Anmer Hall.
The heir to the throne was given a tour of the 1950s building downsized and modernised in 2017 as part of a £3.1 million project to create up-to-date facilities for civilians and officers.
When he was taken into a new gym that allows officers to work-out on site, or undergo rehabilitation if injured, he pointed at a cross training machine and joked “these are instruments of torture”.
Norfolk Constabulary Chief Constable Simon Bailey said after the visit: “We are, I believe, the only police force in the country, outside the Metropolitan Police Service, that provides royalty protection to the Royal Family on the Sandringham Estate.
“Of course I’m very, very proud of that, I understand the intense responsibility that goes with that and obviously King’s Lynn police station is a base where a lot of officers, who will attend the Christmas court and various other functions at Sandringham over the course of the year, are based during their day-to-day work.”
Speaking about how the refurbished station will benefit his officers, he added: “It just means they have got somewhere that’s fit for purpose, that will support them to go out and deliver the best possible services to our community.
“Ultimately I want my officers to recognise that we are investing in them in terms of their occupational health, in terms of the quality of the work they provide, and that leads to one thing – that leads to good policing for King’s Lynn and the surrounding area.”
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