Kate shared the picture to ‘elevate consciousness of the important position bees play’ for the planet (Image: AP)
The Princess of Wales was seen smiling in a candy new {photograph} exhibiting her tending to a hive to mark World Bee Day.
The image was taken final summer season on the Anmer Corridor property Kate shares with William on the Sandringham Property and the place she retains bees.
A tweet posted alongside the {photograph}, reads: ‘We’re buzzing about #WorldBeeDay. Bees are an important a part of our ecosystem and at the moment is a good alternative to boost consciousness of the important position bees and different pollinators play in retaining folks and the planet wholesome.’
Buckingham Palace beekeepers have additionally been pictured laborious at work.
The Queen is a eager apiarist, and retains bees at Raymill, her six-bedroom retreat in Lacock, Wiltshire, 17 miles from the King’s Highgrove dwelling.
Throughout a go to to Launceston, Cornwall, final summer season, Camilla met honey-producers promoting jars within the city sq., revealing she was a hands-on beekeeper and had solely misplaced one colony in the course of the earlier winter.
Honey produced by Her Majesty’s bees is offered at Fortnum & Mason to boost funds for charity.
Royal beekeepers John Home and Caroline Geheran deal with a body from one of many hives within the gardens of Buckingham Palace (Image: PA)
World Bee Day is on Might 20 (Image: PA)
This 12 months’s recipient is Nigeria’s first sexual assault referral centre, which the Queen helps as patron.
She can also be president of Bees For Growth, a charity coaching beekeepers and defending bee habitats in additional than 50 nations.
Buckingham Palace is dwelling to 4 beehives on an island in a lake within the backyard, and are two hives in Clarence Home’s backyard.
They produced greater than 300 jars of honey final 12 months for the palace kitchens, and it was usually served in honey madeleines, as a filling for chocolate truffles or in honey and cream sponge.
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Originally posted 2023-05-21 01:51:53.