Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting a refugee camp in Jordan which is home to people fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria.
The couple are at the King Abdullah camp, as part of their three-day tour of the Middle East.
They were greeted by UN staff at the camp which is home to 1,500 people.
More than a million Syrians have now been registered by the UN as refugees in countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
Prince Charles and the duchess visited a craft skills training centre for women and children, and went to a nursery where 20 children sang songs to them.
This is the couple's second day in Jordan. Later they will visit a historic Jordanian Roman city and then leave for Qatar followed by Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Civil warThe King Abdullah camp, near Jordan's northern border with Syria, is one of the smaller camps in the country. It is run by the UN, Unicef and Save the Children.
Some 110,000 of those who have sought shelter in Jordan are living in the desert camp of Zaatari.
The royal couple's visit comes as Save the Children warns up to two million children have had their lives torn apart by the civil war in Syria.
Earlier this month, Jordan's King Abdullah called on world nations to help his country, Turkey and Lebanon to shoulder "the tremendous burden" of caring for the huge influx of people.
The conflict in Syria began almost two years ago with demonstrations against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
The protests quickly turned violent as opponents of Mr Assad took up arms to try to resist a brutal crackdown by the authorities.
The conflict has left more than 70,000 people dead and two million internally displaced, of a pre-conflict population of 20.7 million.
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