The Repair Shop: This is how King Charles likes his cup of tea – revealed at Sussex

The King – who at the time of filming was the Prince of Wales – was seen at Dumfries House in Scotland and he visited The Repair Shop at the Weald & Downland Living Museum near Chichester.

And we learned that he takes his tea – Earl Grey – with honey and a splash of milk.

The Repair Shop team were seen mending two precious items chosen by the monarch - a piece of pottery made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and a 18th century clock.

The episode was mostly praised by TV critics, who enjoyed learning more about the new King.

The Telegraph said: “Watching the team restore such treasures as an 18th-century clock and a Victorian vase, personally selected by the King, was a delight.”

He was described as ‘wonderfully relaxed’ and the rapport between the King and host Jay Blades was met with approval.

"Bonded by their mutual passion, Blades and the Prince immediately struck up a rapport. The lad from Hackney and the heir to the throne weren’t so different,” the reviewer writes.

Giving the episode four out of five stars, The Mail’s writer was a fan of the episode, but wasn’t impressed by the presenters overfamiliarity with the Monarch.

"The worst faux pas was Jay's insistence on manhandling his visitor. He laid a chummy hand on his shoulder, he slapped his back, he steered him around like he was pushing a supermarket trolley,” the writer said.

But ‘two can play at the cheeky chappie game’, noted the reader, describing how the King told Blades: 'You've got a barn, I've got a barn, we could have a barn dance,' with a twinkle in his eye.

The Independent says of The King: He’s a fairly natural performer, and by now his various ticks – pulling at his cufflinks, hand in and out of jacket pocket, continually pointing at things – have a kind of reassuring quality. He’s even game enough to let Blades nudge him playfully as they josh one another about the size of their barns, like a couple of schoolboys.”

However, The Guardian’s reviewer wasn’t so impressed with the episode, describing the ‘bizarreness of the King’s Repair Shop cameo’, concluding: “It proves one thing: the show’s far more enjoyable when it sticks to normal people.”

You can watch The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit on iPlayer now.