LONDON — When Dr. Imran Haq was a medical student in 2014, he had a chance encounter with King Charles III at an event.
“I was struck by how normal he was,” said Dr. Haq, a surgeon for Britain’s National Health Service in Sheffield, England.
About a decade later, the monarch became Dr. Haq’s muse.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II last year, Dr. Haq said his fondness for the British royal family inspired him to take up a hobby: designing cereal boxes as merchandise to commemorate Charles’s coronation on May 6.
The boxes of his “Coronation Flakes” feature a cartoon rendering of the king on the front, along with the tagline: “They taste royally good.” On the back, there are puzzles and a cutout mask of Charles’s face.