She added: “And that stuck with me because I thought that is an amazing thing to do, because they will keep whatever’s in it, I was dying to see if maybe they would open it up, but they didn’t, what a delightful thing to do, because you keep that forever.”
Traditionally, royal protocol dictates that royals can only receive gifts from the public, not give them.
The royal expert said the King’s cancer diagnosis has also helped him create a “very different image” of himself as a monarch.
She added: “They’ve really become very, very accessible and very close. And I think the cancer has made the King even more wanting to talk to his people and caring about them.”
Levin said that previously Charles and Camilla believed “nobody would be there” to support them following the death of Queen Elizabeth II and were surprised to find crowds of fans outside Buckingham Palace.
She told the broadcaster: “I think it’s been a long and a short year, somehow. But the year where it all began when he became much more easy to be with people, was actually after the death of the late Queen, and they came back to Buckingham Palace.”
