Prince Charles is preparing to becoming King of England and it seems the 69-year-old royal is already “acting like he sits on the throne.”
Amazon Prime’s new documentary, Saving the Royals: Inside the Firm, Prince Charles lives a very privileged life at Clarence House, with staff reportedly calling him the “pampered prince”.
“Everything is done for him,” Princess Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell says in the documentary.
Burrell claims, “His pyjamas are pressed every morning, his shoe laces are pressed flat with an iron, the bath plug has to be in a certain position, and the water temperature has to be just tepid.”
The former butler even claims that Charles’ “valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning.”
“On one occasion, he rang me from his library and he said, ‘Oh Paul, a letter from the Queen seems to have fallen into my wastepaper bin. Would you pick it out?’” Paul says in the documentary.
Tom Bowers book, Rebel Prince, The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles, which was released in March, also claims the royal has some surprising demands.
Over 120 people were interviewed for the book, with one claiming that if Prince Charles was attending a dinner party at a friend’s house, “the host would be informed in advance that an aide would be delivering a bag containing the Prince’s food”.
It’s also claimed in the book that the Prince brings his own toilet seat with him when he travels and changes his clothes five times a day.
A segment from the Queen of the World documentary showed the extensive routine for preparing Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s bed linen.
“There are special sheets that are used for members of the royal family and they’re kept aside and brought out on only those special occasions when they’re here,” master of the household, Christine MacIntyre explained in the segment .
“It takes over an hour to iron one sheet…After a long day of travelling there’s nothing better than getting into a bed that doesn’t feel like a hotel bed.
“And that’s what you’re trying to do, is to make it feel like they’re in their own bedroom and they are.”
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