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The Prince of Wales, 72, recounts how Fred Nutbeam helped him and his sister, the Princess Royal, 70, with their “little garden” during childhood. Speaking to Poet Laureate Simon Armitage about his earliest experience of nature, the Queen’s eldest son reveals Mr Nutbeam’s important role in a programme set to be broadcast tonight.
Radio 4’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone To His Shed airs at 7.15pm.
Charles said: “There was a wonderful head gardener at Buckingham Palace, he was called Mr Nutbeam, rather splendidly.
“He was splendid, and helped us a bit, my sister and I, with the little garden we had.”
It had previously been said that Mr Nutbeam had even pushed the Royal children around Buckingham Palace in a wheelbarrow.
A former Superintendent of the Royal Parks, Jim Buttress, told The Sunday Times in 2016: “Fred told me he used to push Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward around the grounds in a wheelbarrow.”
Mr Nutbeam worked at Buckingham Palace as the head gardener for almost 25 years until his retirement in 1978.
He was also appointed as a member of the Royal Victorian Order by Queen Elizabeth II.
Mr Nutbeam died in 1997.
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Charles said: “There’s nothing to beat, is there, I think, eating what you have grown?
“This is another reason why I always feel it is so important to find ways of encouraging children to grow vegetables and things at school.”
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