King Charles mutters ‘oh dear, oh dear’ as he meets UK Prime Minister Liz Truss

The outspoken royal appears to have accidentally made his feelings known while meeting UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

King Charles is trying to follow in the footsteps of the late Queen by remaining politically neutral at all times.

But the outspoken royal appears to have let his feelings slip while meeting UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

The weekly audience typically sees the PM update the monarch on the latest at Westminster in the last seven days.

But the week hasn’t treated Ms Truss too kindly, with the Pound in freefall after her disastrous fiscal strategy, mortgage rates soaring and her own party turning on her.

And Charles appeared to let on that he wasn’t too impressed by her work either.

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King Charles III meets Prime Minister Liz Truss during their weekly audience at Buckingham Palace (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

PM: Your majesty.
Charles: So you've come back again
PM: It's a great pleasure.
Charles: Dear oh dear. Anyway... https://t.co/IXW7UMChTQ

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) October 12, 2022

As Ms Truss entered the room at Buckingham Palace for their first ever official audience, she said: “Your Majesty. It is good to see you again.”

The King replies: “So you’ve come back again?”

Ms Truss says: “It’s a great pleasure.”

But then Charles, appearing to fill an awkward silence in front of the cameras, mutters: “Oh dear, oh dear.”

Charles has often made his feelings on political issues clear and used to send his infamous ‘black spider’ memos to ministers, mostly on environmental issues.

But the new King vowed to stop his campaigning once he took the throne, and has passed on the work of his charities to other royals.

Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss (Photo by Markus Schreiber-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Meanwhile Ms Truss is under pressure from her own MPs to make another U-turn to shore up the markets.

She met members of her own party on Wednesday night in an attempt to smooth things over, but that reportedly didn’t go to plan.

“We are completely in a dreadful place,” one minister told the BBC. “There is no way out - maybe Liz Truss will find a way, but I cannot see it.”

MPs have urged her and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to drop their plans to cancel a rise in corporation tax - the rate at which businesses pay tax on their profits.

Ms Truss believes that making the tax cut will encourage growth.

The duo previously had to ditch their plans to cut tax for the richest people in the UK after their mini-Budget included £45 billion ($79.5billion) in tax cuts funded by borrowing.

And according to some senior Conservatives, the entire mini-Budget may have to be consigned to the scrap heap.

Paul Goodman, the editor of Tory website Conservative Home, said it was “more likely than not” that the plans would have to be shelved.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he was not sure that the tax cuts would “be acceptable to the markets”.

“Or whether the markets are now going to demand the withdrawal, in effect, of the mini-budget.”