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The Prince of Wales visits Frank's Ice Cream company during his tour of Wales
1st July 2011
The Prince of Wales concluded his tour of Wales with a visit to an ice cream factory.
The Prince tried an ice cream in which bara brith replaced raspberries in the ice cream stakes at Frank's Ice Cream factory run by the Dallevalle family.
The special flavour was created to tempt the His Royal Highness's taste buds during today's final visit in the week-long summer tour.
His Royal Highness said: "Before I go I just want to say how thrilled I have been to have this brief opportunity to visit Frank's ice cream emporium."
He added: "I shall leave here now having discovered a brand new experience which is clotted cream ice-cream. I think that that deserves an award," he said.
As he left The Prince was presented with a solid silver ice cream scoop specially made by jeweller Mari Thomas.
"Fantastic," said the Prince, as he took it out of the presentation box. "It will also double as a tie-pin," he joked, holding up in front of his shirt.
During his tour The Prince met the three teenage sons of one family member and was told they would be the fourth generation to run the business.
Joe Dallavalle, 85, headed it for 40 years and led The Prince today into a room full of awards won by the ice cream maker.
"We didn't know even if he likes ice cream but everyone knows he likes
bara brith so we created a new flavour," he said.
"I don't know if liked it, but if he did he can certainly have a life-time's supply for free. Why not, he is Royalty."
He added that the company founder would have been "greatly honoured" to
have known about the Royal visit.