Overview

• Jack Stooks describes how Charles personally inspected weekend garden work at Highgrove and issued weekly tasks to his gardening team.
• He emphasizes the royal family’s everyday demeanor behind the public formality and notes widespread underappreciation of their national service.
• Charles has spent more than 30 years converting his Gloucestershire estate into a largely chemical-free organic farm that welcomes visitors.
• Stooks praises Charles’s sense of duty for persisting with official engagements throughout his cancer treatment.
• He also highlights Queen Camilla’s steadfast role in supporting the King’s efforts both in the gardens and at public events.