The Prince of Wales finds his “true peace” when in the countryside, the Duchess of Cornwall has revealed. "In a personal tribute to Prince Charles published in the upcoming edition of
Country Life magazine, Camilla chose her husband as one of her rural heroes."
She wrote: “My husband is a countryman to his very core. It’s the place where he is most happy and relaxed, an integral part of his heart and soul.
“Whether he’s hedge-laying in the pouring rain, striding, like a mountain goat, up impossible steep Highland hills, planting trees in the arboretum or pruning at Highgrove, this is where he finds true peace.”
Camilla also spoke fondly of Charles’s “deep and enduring love for all things bucolically British”.
“His knowledge comes not only from books, but from hard-won experience, tramping every inch of the countryside, from north to south, east to west, talking, listening, supporting and celebrating. He’s fluent in the rural tongue,” she added.
"Dry-stone wallers and crofters, shepherds and weavers, cheesemakers, stick-whittlers, potters and blacksmiths – he is their champion and public voice, a passionate advocate of all things rural.”
