Queen Elizabeth‘s eldest son Prince Charles recently paid a rare visit to the Gloucester shirt factory. The Prince visited the workshop of Emma Willis, who has been making shirts for him for a number of years. However, on his visit the Prince was given a gift that prompted him to speak out about his “never-ending battle”.

When he was gifted a new garment on his visit, the prince joked that staying the same size wasn’t easy.

He quipped: “Very kind of you — you’ve got my measurements. I struggle to keep them the same, a never-ending battle,”

Emma Willis recalled the first time one of Charles’ dressers said the royal would like to try her designs, which happened six years ago.

She said: “So I went to Clarence House and measured His Royal Highness for the first time, and we’ve been making his shirts ever since,”

“And one of the things we specialise in is very fine Swiss cottons, and he loves lovely soft fabrics.”

The trip comes after Prince Charles announced his collaboration with sustainable British fashion brand Vin + Omi.

The brand is known for its punk roots and ability to combine its avant-garde fashion with sustainable innovation.

co-founder of the brand Omi spoke out about the collaboration in an interview with PEOPLE.

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She said: “We love working with Prince Charles, and we have a lot of fun doing it.”

“He has been very involved in terms of what we are doing, and it’s an ongoing relationship, which is really lovely.”

In addition to a tour of the factory floor and the cutting room, the 71-year-old royal met with injured service personnel sponsored by the company’s charity Style for Soldiers.

The Prince told them: “I just wanted to come really to thank you, more than anything, for the wonderful things you do, apart from making fantastic shirts and boxer shorts and everything else.”

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But everything you do for our armed forces and all those who had the horror of being wounded in one way or another, it is a wonderful thing you do.”

Charles kept the public updated on his visit with a heartwarming Instagram post, including multiple photographs of his visit to the workshop, and a video of him meeting a Syrian refugee at the company.

Following his trip to the factory, the Prince had a very special visit to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Warwickshire.

It was recently announced that the Prince of Wales would be shown examples of the 40,000 items which make up the RSC’s costume store.

The visit was set to include a tour the site of the on-going multi-million pound redevelopment.

This is a redevelopment of the company’s existing Costume Workshop buildings.

The tour was set to involve a viewing of a short performance from The Boy in the Dress at the RSC’s The Other Place venue.

The Prince then made another trip to the University of Warwick after the visit.

At the University of Warwick’s main campus site in Coventry, Charles officially opened the National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC).

This featured a a showcase of concepts for the future of sustainable travel from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Tata Motors and the Warwick Manufacturing Group.

The prince later visited the Nicholas Chamberlaine Almshouses in Bedworth, in the north of the county.

He visited in his role as patron of The Almshouse Association.

Charles met with the residents in their home before planting a tree in the gardens to mark his visit.

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