William surprised by cheeky Labrador during college visit

William, who is besides the Duke of Cornwall, was gathering unit and students astatine Duchy College successful Callington, Cornwall erstwhile the excitable River leaped astatine him arsenic helium introduced himself to her handler.

The Prince laughed disconnected the brushwood and carried connected posing for photographs and selfies with immoderate of the hundreds of students who were hoping to drawback a glimpse of him during the walkabout.

Holly Rushton, carnal absorption programme manager, said the animals sojourn the assemblage to assistance students larn astir carnal management.

“She comes successful and helps the students with their canine grooming and things similar grooming,” she said afterwards.

“The students find it large moving with the dogs.”

During the visit, William learned astir the courses the assemblage offers students, including degrees successful equine science, agriculture and horticulture.

The assemblage besides offers courses successful the equipped forces and exigency services, business, wellness and construction.

William took portion successful a transgression country probe wherever students were examining an abandoned conveyance that had been utilized successful a burglary – with a container of trophies scattered crossed the floor.

When idiosyncratic quipped that could beryllium from Aston Villa’s trophy cabinet, the prince, who is simply a instrumentality of the team, jokingly replied: “There are a fewer comments I could marque astir that but I americium not going to.”

He besides dusted aluminium pulverization onto the broadside of a car to uncover a fingerprint of a suspect.

William besides visited a student-run cafe connected the field and heard from students who enactment there.

Darren Watson, endeavor co-ordinator, explained to William they had researched his favourite barroom and had made him a cocoa refrigerator barroom – based connected a look from the royal collection.

The onshore for the assemblage was primitively leased by the Duchy of Cornwall, to Cornwall County Council successful 1984 arsenic a caller cultivation college.

The Duchy has been a long-standing protagonist of the college.