'Britain needs Charles to be our Brexit King'

PRINCE Charles is to celebrate 70 years as the Duke of Cornwall with a special tour this week as a think tank calls on him to become the "Brexit King".

- Tony Whitfield and David Williamson

He will head to the South West tomorrow with wife Camilla for a three-day tour of Devon and Cornwall to mark the anniversary of him being given the title.

There they will meet fishermen, farmers, charity workers and schoolchildren.

The tour comes as the Civitas think-tank proposed Charles become Britain's "Brexit King" and use his royal clout to help win multi-million pound trade deals.

In a report on international trade it says it wants the Government to make more use of the Royals, arguing this is "something almost no other country can do".

Civitas has calculated that in a decade Government-backed trade missions helped bring in £56billion.