Table tennis star ‘wagged her finger’ at Charles and urged him to play the sport

The ‘golden girl’ of array tennis has revealed she offered her coaching skills to King Charles, who shocked her with his response.

Edna Fletcher, from Gorleston, Norfolk, began playing the athletics erstwhile she was conscionable 15 years old.

Since then, she has won medals and trophies crossed the globe and helped manager different generations of array tennis players.

Edna precocious told the BBC she offered to manager King Charles successful 2006, erstwhile helium was past the Prince of Wales.

She said: ‘I wagged my digit astatine him erstwhile helium said helium had ne'er played.

‘I said ‘well adjacent clip you travel to Caister and sojourn The Prince’s Trust, get them to ringing maine up and I’ll springiness you immoderate coaching’.’

Though Charles isn’t an experienced array tennis player, Camilla seemingly is – she took connected France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron successful a lucifer past year.

Happily for some sides, Queen Camilla and French archetypal woman Brigitte Macron ended their lucifer successful a tie.

It was not a peculiarly high-scoring affair, with the Queen ne'er managing to instrumentality much than 1 of Brigitte’s beardown shots.

Camilla invited the archetypal lady, who is six years younger than her, to a speedy lucifer aft facing disconnected against 19-year-old French array tennis prima Prithika Pavade.

Prithika, who represented her state astatine the 2021 Olympics successful Tokyo, told quality presumption BFMTV that she could archer it wasn’t the Queen’s archetypal time.

She said: ‘It was a unsocial experience. I was precise fortunate to person been capable to conscionable the royal couple.

‘You tin spot that Queen Camilla has already held a bat and that she has already played, it was precise nice.’

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