Y ou’ve got to love the King. Mainly for his attitude to food. He’s such a natural disruptor.
He’s spent his professional life as a devout lunch dodger who, if not quite echoing Gordon Gekko’s Wall Street mantra that “lunch is for wimps”, has certainly let it be known that lunch is a “luxury” for truly busy people. And so, in this current era of recuperation, and on the advice of doctors and experts, Charles has agreed to break with personal preferences and, finally, reluctantly, have lunch. And what has he chosen to eat for this lunch? Half an avocado.
This is genius disruption for two reasons. One, because the avocado is, famously, the food of choice of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. It’s her spirit animal,.