She met homeowners and workers at Coffey’s Butchers, The Arcadia deli and Knotts Bakery earlier than doing an impromptu meet and greet with well-wishers.
She got here away with luggage stuffed with native produce, promising she would take them residence for her husband – after having fun with a snack herself.
Requested a number of occasions concerning the King’s wellbeing, she mentioned “he is doing very properly”, joking that “I attempt to hold him so as”.
“He is very dissatisfied he cannot come,” she added.
At Coffey’s Butcher, which has been working on the Lisburn Highway since 1929, she met a few of the three generations of the household who run it, remarking: “My gosh there are numerous you!”
Inspecting the meat counter, she mentioned: “My goodness me what an important choice” and requested: “All of those are regionally sourced? What do you promote essentially the most of?”
“It is great, it is all very tempting. It is pretty to see you thriving.”
Throughout her go to to The Arcadia, store assistant Brenda Robb requested after Charles, and handed her a get properly card for him, extending her finest needs.