The King has arrived in Romania for a private visit and a break from official engagements almost a month after his Coronation took place.
But before His Majesty can enjoy his holiday, he was pictured carrying out one final duty and meeting Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis for a formal bilateral meeting in the capital Bucharest.
It is understood that The King has travelled to the area alone and The Queen will spend some personal time at her home in Wiltshire.
The monarch is regular visitor to the country and is incredibly popular with the locals. As well as enjoying a strong relationship, he has a number of unique properties in the country’s Transylvanian region.
King Charles bought the Blue House in Transylvania, Romania in 2006 after falling in love with the area during an official visit in 1998.
The vibrant farmhouse is located in the rural village Viscri and is open to the public when he is not in residence.
The King typically spends a couple of days each year in the country and can be regularly spotted meeting the locals and going for hikes.
The house itself features seven bedrooms and has no radios or televisions inside in order to create a peaceful and tranquil atmosphere.
Rooms at the Blue House cost around £100 a night and they are all furnished with antique Transylvanian furniture.
Designers maintained the cottage’s authenticity by carefully restoring it with traditional methods and materials.
In addition to the seven en-suite bedrooms, the property features a drawing room, a dining room, a sitting room, a large kitchen and an outdoor breakfast barn which contains an impressive bread oven.
His Majesty's love of Transylvania is in part due to the harmony of local people and nature that can be found in Romania.
In a docuseries titled Wild Carpathia, Charles said: "It is the last corner of Europe where you see complete sustainability and true resilience.
"It’s the timelessness of it which is so remarkable, almost out of some of those stories one used to read as a child. It’s quite remarkable. People are yearning for that sense of belonging and identity and meaning."
His Majesty also has another less-than-expected family link to Romania as his is said to be Vlad the Impaler's great-grandson 16 times removed. The association to Vlad – who is commonly linked to Bram Stoker's Dracula – is something that the King is very proud of.
The King told actor Luke Evans that he is related to the historical leader after Evans had finished his work as the fictional Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes on the 2014 film Dracula Untold.
Speaking to The Jonathan Ross Show, he said: “I remember the first time I spoke to (Charles), I was super nervous. He came up to me and said, ‘What are you working on at the moment?’ and I said, ‘I’ve just finished a movie about Vlad Tepes who turns into Dracula.’
“And he went ‘Funnily enough, I’m related to Vlad Tepes.’ I thought he was joking! He went through his lineage to Vlad.”
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