A tour by Prince Charles and Lady Camilla has been confirmed but excludes Hawke's Bay.
A tour by Prince Charles and Lady Camilla has been confirmed but excludes Hawke's Bay.
The Hawke's Bay A and P Society remains hopeful of attracting a royal to the Royal Show, despite being unable to line up all the stars with a short New Zealand visit by the Prince of Wales next month.
Event general manager Brent Linn said royals had been invited tothe show next Wednesday to Friday but with a tour by Prince Charles and Lady Camilla having yesterday been confirmed but excluding Hawke's Bay, the society is "working on" having a royal guest in the remaining years of Hawke's Bay's Royal Show tenure, in 2016 and 2017.
He said a tour this year by Prince Charles hadn't been "in the frame" when the Hawke's Bay society started making plans last year after the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand awarded the Bay the Royal Show rights for the three years.
But the society is keen to have Prince Charles, who is patron of the global Campaign for Wool.
Next week's show will, however, have one high-ranking visitor from the UK in Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth treasurer Andrew Gilmour, a Scottish farmer who is on a month-long visit to New Zealand.
Mr Linn said among others who had accepted invitations to the Royal Show in Hastings next week were British High Commissioner to New Zealand Jonathon Sinclair, South African Head of Mission Zodwa Lallie and Argentine ambassador Fernando Daniel Escalona.
In a short tour announced yesterday by Prime Minister John Key, Prince Charles and Lady Camilla will be in New Zealand from November 4 to 10, visiting Wellington, Dunedin, Nelson, Westport, New Plymouth and Auckland.
