Royals meet Doctor Who and the Daleks in BBC set tour
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The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall passed a pair of unusual "sentries" - two Daleks - when they visited the Doctor Who set in Cardiff on the third day of their summer tour.
The royal couple soon made friends with the metal monsters - one of the most feared creatures in the show about the time-travelling Doctor - which were gold-coloured to mark the programme's 50th anniversary.
The royals visited the BBC Studios at Roath Lock in Cardiff Bay where they met cast and crew members of the Saturday night sci-fi show that is produced by BBC Wales.
That included meeting actor Matt Smith, who plays the eleventh Doctor, and Jenna Louise Coleman, who plays the Doctor's companion. They posed for pictures moments before heading into the Tardis, the Doctor's time-travelling space ship.
They soon learned that the Tardis is bigger on the inside than on the outside. Matt Smith and Jenna Louise Coleman showed the royal couple how the Doctor's time-travelling spaceship works.
The cast of monster introduced to the couple included the Ood, a telepathic race with tentacles on their face. The Duchess of Cornwall appeared curious about their make-up.
The Doctor's weapon of choice is his sonic screwdriver. Prince Charles wasted no time in trying it out during the visit to the BBC's Roath Lock studios in Cardiff Bay.
Not a suit of armour but a Cyberman. The royal couple inspected one of the other mainly metal monsters on the Doctor Who set in Cardiff Bay.
The hands-of tour of the drama studios included showing Prince Charles how a "green screen" set works to create some of the show's computer-generated images.
Prince Charles finds there is no business like snow business during his tour of the Doctor Who set in Cardiff Bay. The Duchess of Cornwall looks on as he fires a snow gun.