His former butler has revealed King Charles’s ‘secret’ hobby. King Charles may have a lot of different hobbies but there’s one thing the monarch likes to indulge in – and it’s quite a “dangerous” one too, according to a royal expert.
Former butler Grant Harrold, who worked for Charles from 2004 to 2011, has given an insight into the pastimes of the royal. He revealed the King’s love for hedgelaying but added that he finds the hobby “a little dangerous”. Hedgelaying is a technique of laying a hedge and turning it into fence.
Speaking on behalf of Spin Genie, the former royal butler explained: “You have to hack the branches of a hedge and weave them together. “There’s pictures and videos of Charles doing it, but it’s not a known thing.” And he added: “I think he even judges or gets involved in the national hedgelaying competition. “I don’t think people know that the King has that love.”
Harrold went on to say that the monarch is also into farming and wildlife in general. He said: “I remember he once said that if he wasn’t King, he would be quite happy being a farmer,”
“People often say to me they’ll see him in local fields.” The expert recalled the King’s love for acting too, adding: “He used to do a lot of drama. He loves Shakespeare as well.”
