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4 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 20:00 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales has discussed energy and environmental issues with US President Barack Obama in Washington.<\/p>\n

The meeting in the White House’s Oval Office comes ahead of the president’s state visit to the UK later this month.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama also said he was impressed how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge handled the pressure of their wedding.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the prince made a keynote speech at a conference on sustainable agriculture and attended an event in support of UK and American troops.<\/p>\n

The White House talks came at the end of Prince Charles’s two-day visit to Washington.<\/p>\n

The pair last met in France in 2009 during the 65th anniversary commemorations for the D-Day landings.<\/p>\n

Mr Obama was not a guest at the royal wedding at Westminster Abbey on 29 April but he told Charles the occasion had mesmerised the US.<\/p>\n

He went on to joke that he could not have coped with the pressure of such a situation himself.<\/p>\n

The conversation then turned to the military and Charles revealed how he was worried when Prince Harry served for 10 weeks as a forward air controller in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

‘Food education’<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier, in his address to the Future of Food conference at Georgetown University, Prince Charles called on more governments and companies to support organic food production.<\/p>\n

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As far as I’m concerned, nothing is too good for our servicemen and servicewomen\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He said had spent more than 30 years speaking on the topic of food production in an effort to ensure the health of future generations and “the integrity of nature itself”.<\/p>\n

“The world is gradually waking up to the fact that creating sustainable food systems will be paramount,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added: “Soils are being depleted, demand for water is growing ever more voracious and the entire system is at the mercy of an increasingly fluctuating price of oil.”<\/p>\n

Referring to the need for better “food education”, the prince went on to praise First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign which aims to tackle childhood obesity in America.<\/p>\n

Charles met US military veterans at the event to celebrate the work of the British Forces Fund and America’s United Service Organisations – two bodies which organise morale-boosting entertainment for troops on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The prince highlighted how both the UK and US owed an “immense debt” to their armed forces who were prepared to risk their lives serving in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

“As far as I’m concerned, nothing is too good for our servicemen and servicewomen,” he said.<\/p>\n

He then went on to recite a few lines from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance operetta.<\/p>\n

More speaking than singing, he quoted from the song Oh Better Far to Live and Die: “When I sally forth to seek my prey, I help myself in a royal way, I sink a few more ships, it’s true, than a well-bred monarch ought to do.”<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Charles visited the Common Good City Farm, located on a former baseball field in a deprived area of the city.<\/p>\n

Prince Charles met staff and volunteers at the site where fruit, vegetables and flowers are grown.<\/p>\n

The prince also attended a Marshall Scholar alumni reception at the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

He is an honorary patron of the Association of Marshall Scholars, which funds Americans to study at UK universities in recognition of the post-war European recovery Marshall Plan programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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