TALK OF THE TOWN: Bee Royal appointment: 70,000 new workers for the King By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 01:36, 18 August 2024 | Updated: 01:36, 18 August 2024 e-mail View comments His mother the Queen was a lover of bees, giving away jars of honey from her five Buckingham Palace hives to everyone from the Pope to President Barack Obama . And that passion for bees has stayed with King Charles who has just taken delivery of 70,000 more at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Mystery surrounds where the tiny new workers have come from, but Charles is known to be pally with another famous beekeeper.
.. David Beckham .
The King has been seen swapping beekeeping tips with the former footballer and they have even swapped jars of each other's honey. Beckham's passion for beekeeping was revealed in a recent Netflix documentary which showed him in full apiarist gear to tend hives at his Cotswold home. King Charles has taken delivery of 70,000 bees at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk Mystery surrounds where the tiny new workers have come from, but Charles is known to be pally with another famous beekeeper.
.. David Beckham, who is pictured offering the monarch a jar of his honey last year Pictured: David Beckham holding a jar of his own honey Charles already has hives at his country home Highgrove House in Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
Former Royal Beekeeper to the Queen's bees John Chapple, who cared for up to 420,000 bees across the Palace's hives, welcomed the news of Sandringham's n.