Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are ushering in the Year of the Tiger.
On Tuesday, the royal couple visited London’s Chinatown to take part in the Lunar New Year celebrations. Prince Charles, 73, and Camilla, 74, both sported red scarves as they were greeted by performers dressed as dancing lions — after they assisted in “waking” them, of course.
Lunar New Year, also called Spring Festival, is celebrated by Chinese, South Korean, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Singaporean, Lao, Thai, Mongolian, Bruneian, Indonesian, Japanese, Cambodian, Filipino and East Timorese communities around the world. The holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors.
