The King has marked his 75th birthday by launching an initiative to support charities feeding the nation with unwanted food - and surprised a Big Issue seller with a generous donation. During the visit to the distribution hub in Oxfordshire, the King was serenaded by volunteers and workers with a rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
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00:00 [crowd noise]
00:02 [crowd cheering]
00:06 This is the fair share operation in the Hams Valley.
00:21 We are Sophia.
00:28 Is it electric? Do you have electric ones?
00:30 Yes, it's all environmentally friendly, don't worry.
00:33 [laughter]
00:34 They make some quite good ones.
00:36 Are you all volunteering?
00:37 Yes.
00:38 So this is our new kitchen, the Nourish and Flourish kitchen.
00:50 Let me have a look.
00:51 Thanks very much.
00:52 I'm going to go and meet Alex.
00:57 Hello Your Majesty.
00:58 I'd like to introduce you to my partner.
01:00 Yes, this is the bit that I hoped that they wouldn't find out.
01:05 Obviously Mia got a little one of these.
01:08 Would you like to have a look at this?
01:10 So today, Nirodh, the photographers in there get particularly hungry.
01:14 And we'd hope to feed you, but I understand we need a whole lot of onions, celery, etc. to do that.
01:18 And we cook it all today, and then we feed everyone in the place.
01:21 And then after that, what we're going to be doing is to,
01:24 we're labelling up lots of containers and we send the food out.
01:27 So it's the perfect circle.
01:28 You're taking it up here by chance, sort of thing, by meeting Richard.
01:31 And it's been fantastic.
01:33 And someone just told me I had to let you go.
01:35 But it's been lovely.
01:36 Yes, well, it's also been part of it, you know, suffering for my arse, as it were.
01:40 But lovely to meet you.
01:41 I hope you have a wonderful lunch.
01:43 Here we are.
01:45 Here we are.
01:46 A little wave for the camera.
01:48 [Laughter]
01:50 Happy birthday, your majesty.
02:00 Happy birthday to you.
02:05 [Applause]
02:17 God bless you.
02:18 Good to see you.
02:19 I haven't seen you for a quarter of a century.
02:21 [Laughter]
02:27 Am I allowed to give you something, a little present?
02:30 This is the smallest manifesto in the world.
02:32 Can I give you it?
02:34 It's to create a ministry of poverty.
02:36 Get rid of poverty.
02:38 We're spending a lot of money.
02:40 [Laughter]
02:44 And this has been you.
02:46 Isn't it a really good photo?
02:48 It is.
02:49 He took me singing.
02:51 He is the best.
02:54 You landed on your feet.