CHARLES has always been keen to stress that he’s “just an ordinary person in an extraordinary position” and wants to be treated like anyone else.
But when you grow up the son of a queen and heir to the throne you aren’t treated like an ordinary person at all. You have people at your beck and call, ready to respond to your every whim and indulge all your idiosyncrasies.
HIS MAJESTY’S WARDROBE
The king likes to look good in a suit, handkerchief billowing from his breast pocket and a flower in his buttonhole – but no pocket flaps.
His formal wardrobe is almost exclusively made of double-breasted suits from Anderson & Sheppard, of London’s exclusive Savile Row tailors. His shirts from Turnbull & Asser, which are made of the finest, most luxurious cotton and finished with French cuffs