Nothing is going well in the flourishing halls of Highgrove House Garden. In the residence of the Campo del Rey Carlos III, an army of gardeners accesses the wishes of the king, who has made the place his laboratory, the place where he has applied his precepts in terms of ecology for 45 years.
But now, of the 12 gardeners who work in Highgrove, he resigned in the last three years, including two main gardeners, he revealed times on Sunday, which dedicates a long investigation to this discomfort in an English garden.
In question, difficult working conditions, real requests impossible to satisfy, an exhausting rhythm and salaries of the margaritas.
Lack of personnel and media
Because in his garden maybe even other places, the king is demanding and intractable. “They don’t introduce me more to this man,” he said, on a gardener chief who had shown insufficient knowledge about a variety of flowers.
At the end of 2023, the Times still revealed, one of the gardeners filed a complaint due to the lack of means and the staff, to respond to the King’s requests. The teams, still overwhelmed, have contracted physical disorders, according to this employee. “The expectations of His Majesty, the king, are taken into account little, and I know he would not be authorized to say that we lack personal,” he said in his complaint.
King Charles Bomba the unfortunate gardeners with very precise instructions, asking for example that eliminating this or that plant around the pool. With lyrical taste, the king is affected by a thousand details, the size of his beloved Delphiniums, which caused him a great disappointment and spoiled him in summer, to the death of a beloved Azalea, who went through the disappointing growth of a cherry or the absence of a label in a magnolia.
King’s crazy demand
In addition to the mad requirement of the king, welcome with more or less indulgence and understanding by team members, it is above all the obvious lack of means that exhausts Highgrove personnel. Subsucer and at least legal wages were right as the best wishes. The gardens developed widely over the years, while the number of gardeners remained unchanged, 12 people.
Garden Management is today in the hands of King’s Foundation, The King’s Foundation. And Charles arranged that the Highgrove domain remained in his lap until his 92 years, when he should have returned to Prince William, having been acquired through Cornwall ducat, owned by the Prince of Wales.
Therefore, the King’s Foundation was responsible for responding to the crisis and defending his balance sheet.
“In King’s Foundation, we strive to be an exemplary employer and we are proud to regularly show very high satisfaction rates in our annual survey with the staff. Our staff rotation rate is much lower than the national average, as well as the number of official complaints presented.”
Source: BFM TV
