CONFECTIONER Cadbury’s can no longer display a Royal Warrant after an incident between the King and a Creme Egg which he is still not entirely over.
The chocolate maker has been dropped after 170 years at Charles’s insistence following the March experience which left him ‘a broken man’.
A Palace insider said: “He was given it by children at a school. Foolishly, his handlers allowed him to keep it.
“In the back of the Royal Bentley he held it up, chuckling and admiring it from all angles. ‘A chocolate egg!’ he kept saying. ‘Not even lightly jewelled! What will they think of next?’
“Once he found out it was edible he was determined to try it. ‘I have enjoyed the eggs of quails, swans, ostriches and even hens, so why not the egg of the proud and lonely Creme?’ he said. It was brought to him on a silver tray, under a cloche.
“He took his first bite and his face contorted in horror. Manfully, he swallowed it. Unable to admit he was wrong he took another, and over the next 72 hours was treated for shock, tachycardia, hyperventilation, and dissociative disorder.
“The King can no longer admire his collection of Fabergé eggs. The colour purple brings him out in a sweat. He wakes up screaming ‘Ovoids!’ Removing the warrant is only the beginning.”
King Charles III said: “I feel the safest course is to destroy Birmingham before this spreads.”
