It won’t be wrong to call King Charles’ beloved Highgrove estate Gloucestershire a horticultural paradise.
King Charles may have many secrets, but a few of them have a very pleasant surprise for royal fans.
In a new video, released by the Highgrove Garden Instagram feed on Tuesday, the glorious garden reveals some secrets about King Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry.
Charles fondly loved his Gloucestershire estate, Highgrove, and one of its great highlights is its award-winning garden. It is a labyrinth of wonders with lots of surprises along the way.
The stunning clips also revealed secrets about the two royal brothers Prince William and Prince Harry’s childhood.
The video shows William and Harry’s wooden thatched house, which was built for William’s 7th birthday in 1989 and is affectionately named Hollyrood after Holyrood House.
Other highlights included a temple, a serene water feature and lots of perfectly manicured hedges. One of the lesser seen features was a wall with stone heads placed on top.
In a post from the archives, shared in 2018, the Highgrove team explained the meaning behind these head and shoulder sculptures.
The post read: “Something you might not know about the #Royal #Gardens at Highgrove is that several busts of people who have influenced the life of the Prince of Wales are located there, from famous composers to environmental activists, in an exhibition known as the ‘Wall of Worthies’.”
Elsewhere in the garden, there is a life-size tribute to his beloved dog, Tigga, who died in 2002.
The pooch was put down at the age of 18 after suffering the effects of old age, and the monarch was said to be “very sad” about it. The King, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, commissioned an artist to create a sculpture of his dog for his garden.
