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Crowns and Chrysanthemums

Season 1, Ep. 3

We have a new monarchy - the King of the Compost and the Queen of the Bees as Charles and Camilla were re-named by the child gardeners at the ‘No Adults Allowed Garden’ at the Chelsea Flower Show. The visit comes as King Charles became the patron of the Royal Horticultural Society as his mother was for some seventy years. In a show recorded before the UK election announcement, Roya and Kate discuss flowers, weddings, garden parties and how the other members of the wider royal family might take up the slack in performing the more regular 'ribbon cutting' duties and how would these things be done without the royals?


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