Britain's Prince Charles is a fan of dreadlocks. The prince praised builder Lance Deem's matted hair style during a visit to a firm which makes environmentally-friendly building materials near Brecon, Powys, as part of his annual tour of Wales.
Lance - who joked his job of mixing lime-based products had resulted in his dreadlocks - said the prince chatted to him about his hair.
He added: "The prince laughed and said he quite liked them. I said I didn't look this way nine years ago when I first got started."
Charles - who is touring the region with wife Camilla, duchess of Cornwall - also met volunteers from Prime Cymru, the Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise in Wales, and asked for a lesson from part-time belly dancer Susan Spalding, but shied away from trying out what he was shown.
Susan revealed: "The prince asked me to show him a few moves and I asked him to join in, but he said he'd better leave that to the ladies."
"I couldn't get him to join in but he did say he liked my costume."
The royal couple have a number of engagements arranged for their four-day trip. They began with a tour of Brecon Cathedral, where Charles is patron of the Brecon Cathedral Choir Appeal which aims to raise £1 million [$1.6 million] to support the salaries of the cathedral's director of music and an assistant organist and also tries to provide the choristers with subsidized singing lessons.
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