Britain’s King Charles III has a new title: Ranger of Windsor Great Park. But his official photo for his 74th birthday seems to be saying more.
And he has admitted to holding conversations with trees.
“I happily talk to the plants and the trees, and listen to them. I think it’s absolutely crucial,” he told a BBC interviewer in 2010. His courtiers have confirmed he often gives a leafy branch “a friendly shake to wish it well.”Years ago, some British commentators thought Charles too New Age, too mystical, too crunchy. But now some say he was ahead of his time. David Attenborough documentaries have shown how plants communicate.
It is not yet known whether Charles will, like his predecessors on the throne, claim a separate official birthday date in a more temperate month.The last birthday photograph of Queen Elizabeth II, when she turned 96, showed her dressed in a dark cape, holding the reins of two of her ownTwitter said — for the most part approvingly — that she looked like Gandalf from “The Lord of the Rings.” The image conveyed power, wealth, control — and good breeding.
Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.
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