It can’t be simply being king and keeping track of exactly everything. Just ask the British King Charles III. The King was born on 14 November 1948 at Buckingham Palace in London, and as Queen Elizabeth II and prince Philips eldest son, his path was marked out from birth.
Just like his father, King Charles attended Cheam School and later Gordonstoun. According to BBC so King Charles was also a fan of acting, and he played, among other things, the role of the king in the school’s production of William Shakespeare’s MacBeth.
At Gordonstoun, he achieved top grades in French and history, among other subjects, and actually broke with royal tradition by continuing to study rather than join the British Armed Forces. King Charles studied, among other things, archaeology, anthropology, history and art.
Of Gordonstoun boarding school, Charles has said:
– It has taught me to accept challenges and to take initiative.
King Charles (far right) with his father at Gordonstoun in 1962. Image credit: Stella Pictures.King Charles “screamed and shook” when he saw plastic wrap
But all the education in the world cannot prepare even a king for the brutal reality of everyday life with all its trappings. For someone who grew up with servants, maybe cooking and fixing and donating in the kitchen is not something that comes naturally, and that’s exactly how it actually was for King Charles.
In the book Rebel Prince written by Tom Bower then it is revealed that King Charles was left with something of a shock and ‘screamed and trembled’ when he saw plastic wrap around food for the first time – about how Queen Camilla had to rush after and try to calm him down, something like American The Guardian have reported on.
King Charles and Queen Camilla. Image source: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/TT Image
“He walked into the dining room and screamed. Camilla feared the worst so she rushed after him. ‘What’s this?’ asked her husband, while pointing to the food,” Bower writes in the book.
According to the book, Camilla then replied:
“It’s plastic wrap, honey”.
The plastic wrap covering the king’s food made him recoil. Image source: Jessica Gow/TT BildKing Charles’ diet – he eats that every day
Although the book came out in 2018 and was already rewritten several years ago, the news about King Charles and the plastic wrap has once again ended up in the news as King Charles’ favorite food is something that is discussed in the new cookbook Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III which is written by Queen Camilla’s son, the food critic Tom Parker Bowles. Tom’s father is Andrew Parker Bowlesand King Charles is his bonus dad.
King Charles. Image source: Stella Pictures.
In the book, more is revealed about King Charles’s odd eating habits. He “never eats lunch” but instead always enjoys a relaxed cup of tea around 5pm.
With the steaming and warming cup, he likes to eat macaroons, scones and pralines. Poached eggs on toast and baked prawns are also something that people like to go down, together with chicken, smoked salmon, ham and mustard, writes People.