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By the look on Prince Charles and his wife Camilla’s face, you could say it was a royal embarrassment.

Despite his best stiff upper lip, Prince Charles’s discomfort was palpable as Prince Edward Island treated him to a comic impersonation of the Queen, played by local actor Wade Lynch, at an event Monday night.

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“There are two members of the audience who call me by quite another name and that is of course, ‘Mommie.’ Hello, kids,” Lynch, as the Queen, said. “As the mother of a Prince Edward — ha ha! — I could not be more tickled.”

The “Queen” then introduced “Anne Shirley,” which surely helped make the evening one potato short of P.E.I. bingo.

Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, looked positively aghast throughout the performance.

Minister of National Revenue Gail Shea, who represents P.E.I’s Egmont riding, laughed and smiled warmly at Lynch’s G-rated jokes, while P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz looked on rather uncomfortably. Ghiz’s wife, Dr. Kate Ellis, wore a grim expression that she could deliver bad news to a patient with.