The Prince of Wales recounts childhood fondness for palace gardener

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Charles told Poet Laureate Simon Armitage how he and his sister, the Princess Royal, had their own vegetable patch as children.

The prince said: “My sister and I had a little vegetable patch in the back of some border somewhere. We had great fun trying to grow tomatoes rather unsuccessfully, and things like that.”

 

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