With local women singing African songs she shuffled her feet and raised her arms for a jig at a centre for survivors of domestic abuse.

On the final day of the state visit to Kenya the Queen, 76, joined in with the Sauti Ya Wanawake (the Voice of Women) at the Situation Room, Mombasa.

Beldine Otieno, from Sauti Ya Wanawake, said Camilla “is very nice, lovely. I didn’t know she could dance like that. She is a credit to women.”

Camilla, a champion of domestic violence victims, was told 40% of Kenyan women suffer this abuse in their lifetime. The Queen was given bright Leso shawls, worn when women menstruate or having a baby.

One said in Swahili: “We are grateful for the love the Queen has shown us and we are happy.”

The King and Queen looked around Fort Jesus, a Mombasa Unesco World Heritage site built on a spur of coral rock by the Portuguese in the 16th century. From 1895 it was a British prison.

But the rain put the King and Queen almost an hour behind schedule and their ride in one of the city’s iconic electric tuktuks was cancelled.

Instead, the couple were photographed with one and the King joked: “Maybe we can use this to get to the airport.”

He laughed loudly when reporters said they would race him. But he might well have made the plane home in plenty
of time: it was around an hour late leaving.

Still, the royal visit is being regarded as a success by Palace courtiers, say sources.

They are happy with the King’s “sure-footed” performance.

He also visited Mombasa Memorial Cathedral and the ancient Mandhry Mosque.

At an interfaith meeting he said: “We’re all trying to find the same path to the divine – sometimes by different routes.”