King Charles III danced with Anne Frank’s stepsister while visiting a Jewish community centre in north London on Friday.

Eva Schloss, 93, survived incarceration in Nazi concentration camps and has spent decades promoting peace among humanity. She danced with the King during a celebration of Hanukkah, the Jewish wintertime festival.

She said: “He was sweet, he really took part, he seemed to enjoy it but it is unusual for him not to make a speech. But he was very relaxed and he enjoyed it, I was trying to get a dance with him.

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“They are so easy to talk to, they are not standing on a higher level where you have to make an appointment, they are human beings and want to be part of the community and part of the British people and help everybody.”

Charles toured the JW3 community centre on Finchley Road where he spoke to school children packing presents and food hampers for families around Camden. He also met refugees baking gingerbread biscuits and survivors of the Holocaust.

JW3’s chief executive Raymond Simonson, who accompanied the King on his tour of the centre, said Charles turned up with a car boot full of rice and tinned tuna to go into the donation packets.

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In a speech during which she presented the King with a Chanukiah of eight candelabras, Dame Vivian Duffield said she founded JW3 to give the Jewish community in London a place to gather to protect and celebrate their heritage.

As the King visited the kitchen where a group of young refugees were baking biscuits for the Christmas hampers, one of the cooks, Sefinat, fell to her knees with giddiness.

She said afterwards: “To be honest, I can’t explain the feeling. To see him live, I was like oh my god, it was a nice feeling and I’m happy I was able to meet him.”

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