Prince William to take up farming

OHMYGOSSIP — Britain’s Prince William is to take up farming on some of the estates owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The 31-year-old royal is set to take on the agricultural work on some of the estates owned by the Duchy of Cornwall – which he will eventually inherit form his father Prince Charles to provide him with an income – in south west England.

An aide to Prince William told the Sunday Express newspaper he will be “gaining a closer understanding” of the workings of the Duchy in the next 12 months.

William – who recently announced his decision to quit military service to become a full-time royal – will work on farms in Devon, Somerset and Herefordshire.

However, the work will not be his first taste of agricultural graft as the Duke of Cambridge visited the Isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of mainland Scotland, in 1987, where he dipped sheep, planted potatoes and cut peat.

Selina Scott, who made a documentary about the land mass, said afterwards: “He was just part of the family when he sat down to eat lamb with Donald and his wife Gloria. He slept in the bed Gloria had prepared for him even though the cat had slept on it – and he didn’t like cats.”

As well as farms in Cornwall and a total of 133,000 acres of land in south west England, the Duchy also owns several properties in London including the Oval cricket ground.