Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles experience farm life. Really?

A London institution that "offers an opportunity for children and adults to get up close to a range of farmyard animals and to learn about where their food comes from and why that matters," according to its website, introduced two famous visitors to the finer points of farm life yesterday. 

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and Prince Charles look a little out of place among the pigs, cows and goats at Hackney City Farm, located in central London.  (Hackney City Farm is part of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens, a U.K. charity.)

More photos of the royals and their new farmyard friends after the jump.  (Bonus: Camilla pets a goat!)

--Lindsay Barnett

Photos: Chris Jackson / Getty Images

Comments

[Barton]

Charles and Camilla run a very fine organic farm -- Home Farm -- at Highgrove, their home in Gloucestershire, and so they are quite familiar with the farmyard side of life.

Their Royal Highnesses are country people at heart , and in mind an body, and they don't look, and really aren't feeling, a bit out of place at Hackney City Farm !