King Charles’s Staff Reveal His List of Lavish Demands, From Heated Biscuits To Traveling With His Own Toilet Seat

Sep 26, 2022 by apost team

The last few years have been momentous for the British monarchy, culminating in the tragic passing of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, 2022, at Balmoral. It was a devastating day for the royal family as many members gathered to be by her side in her final moments. 

That same day, Elizabeth’s eldest son, King Charles III, ascended the throne. And just one day later, he addressed the UK as its new monarch. Since then, and particularly since a video of the new king ordering an aide to remove items from his desk emerged, reports of his lavish demands and eccentric habits – from peculiar food preparation to one specific brand of toilet paper – have surfaced.

It comes as no surprise that the boy born to be king would reportedly garner the nickname the “pampered prince” in his early years. Almost a year to the day after the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s wedding on Nov. 20, 1947, the future queen gave birth to her eldest son King Charles III on Nov. 14, 1948. Charles was born in the Buhl Room of Buckingham Palace via cesarean section when Elizabeth was still a princess.

King Charles broke with tradition several times in his youth, attending school instead of being privately tutored, as was the norm for the royal family at the time. He also became the first royal to earn a university degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read archaeology and anthropology. He later joined the Royal Air Force before becoming the Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in July 1958. His investiture took place on July 1, 1969, when he was crowned by his mother in Caernarvon, Wales.

Let’s take a look at some of King Charles’s more unconventional demands and daily routines.

Even before his ascension to the throne, King Charles III was known by his staff to have very particular requests and habits. In the 2015 Amazon Prime documentary “Serving the Royals: Inside the Firm,” Paul Burrell, a former butler to the late queen and Princess Diana, revealed that the then prince had “everything done for him.”

“His pajamas are pressed every morning, his shoelaces 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,” in a bathtub filled “only half full,” Burrell disclosed.

He added the new king even “has his valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto his toothbrush every morning.”

As for food, Charles has stuck to a primarily healthy diet with some unusual quirks. In the same documentary, a former member of the royal staff, chef Graham Newbould said: “Prince Charles has a healthier option. He’d have homemade bread, a bowl of fresh fruit, fresh fruit juices.” 

“Wherever the Prince goes in the world, the breakfast box goes with him. He has six different types of honey, some special mueslis, his dried fruit and anything that’s a bit special that he is a bit fussy about.”

Meanwhile, the king’s former press secretary Julian Payne told The Mirror the monarch habitually skipped lunch, preferring a walk instead.

“The king doesn’t eat lunch; so, an early lesson I learnt when out on the road with him was to have a big breakfast or bring a few snack bars with you to keep you going.

“The working day is pretty relentless. Beginning with the radio news headlines and a breakfast of seasonal fruit salad and seeds with tea.”

Even more surprising is the extremely precise and uncommon way his biscuits are prepared.

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Like so many of us, King Charles is fond of biscuits but, unlike so many of us, prefers his sweet treats warm, a royal household insider revealed to MyLondon (keep in mind that British biscuits can be a tad different from what somebody in the US would expect!).

“Prince Charles enjoys cheese and biscuits at the end of many of his meals. Since he’s particular about everything, he insists that they be a certain temperature. The staff keeps a warming pan just to make sure they are hot enough for his liking,” the source revealed.

Meanwhile, Charles also has a penchant for traveling heavy, making sure to have certain furniture and other items sent before him, according to the royal family tell-all “The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil” written by Tina Brown, who was good friends with Princess Diana. Brown revealed the king takes many personal items along with him on his travels, including his “bed, furniture and even pictures.”

Brown’s book disclosed that former senior valet Michael Fawcett oversaw the litany of items brought along during the then prince’s travels, which included an “orthopedic bed, lavatory seat, and Kleenex Velvet lavatory paper, plus two landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.” Again breaking with tradition, King Charles reportedly eschews the royal household’s official supplier of toilet paper, Andrex, and prefers Kleenex Velvet.

Having lived his entire life being waited on hand and foot, it’s no surprise the king is a stickler for perfection. This was highlighted in another viral video in which an uncooperative pen rubbed the royal the wrong way. After asking his aides for the date and discovering he had written it wrongly while signing a book, he then got upset after the pen he was using began to leak, saying “I can’t bear this bloody thing! What they do every stinking time.”

Do you find any of King Charles III’s requests too over the top? Which do you feel are the most outlandish? Let us know and don’t forget to pass this on to family and friends.