King Charles spied on by pranksters who used ‘recording device’ to capture nighttime habit
King Charles fell victim to a cruel trick that involved people dangling a "device" out of a window to listen in on the monarch's embarrassing habit
King Charles used to be cruelly pranked by fellow school pupils who used a listening "device" to capture his embarassing nighttime "problem".
Ingrid Seward, a royal biographer and the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, recently told a London literary lunch about a trick pupils played on Charles when he attended Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland.
It involved dangling a device from a window to listen in on a nocturnal habit that columnist Ephraim Hardcastle thinks the King still suffers from to this day, reports the Mail.
The royal chronicler said: "Charles's bed was by an open window, so the boys above dangled over the window a recording device and recorded him snoring away. Charles had a terrible problem with his snoring - and I think he still does."
Charles enrolled at the independent boarding school 1962 and remained there for five years. Prince Philip enjoyed his time at the school, but the King wasn't a fan of the school's regime, dubbing it "Colditz in kilts".
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The King stayed in the Windmill Lodge, which is now used to house female pupils. But published letters from the period reveal the monarch's dislike for his fellow bunkmates.
He wrote: "It's such hell here, especially at night. I don't get any sleep practically at all nowadays. The people in my dormitory are foul. Goodness, they are horrid, I don't know how anyone could be so foul."
Despite his tough experience, Charles later said the school had taught him "a great deal about myself and my own abilities and disabilities". He also said in 1975 that the "toughness of the place" was "much exaggerated".
Neither Prince William or Prince Harry attended Gordonstoun and instead enrolled at Eton College. The elite school in Berkshire has welcomed other prominent names over the years, including David Cameron, Boris Johnson and even George Orwell.
Charles was allowed to attend Eton, but Prince Philip maintained that the monarch would lose his privacy as it was situated so close to Windsor and London.
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It was revealed in January that Charles was also mocked for one of his more unusual habits - encouraging the trees he'd planted to grow.
In The Making of a King: King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy, author Robert Hardman explained that the monarch has a close relationship with the natural world.
"He does love being out and about in the countryside," Hardman told Fox News Digital. "He’s always disappearing, and he’s got a particular thing at the moment with planting trees.
"He’s obsessed with it. He’s always liked planting trees. He used to get mocked for it slightly because whenever he planted a tree, he’d always shake one of the leaves by the hand and say, ‘Good luck tree.’"
It would appear that this particular habit has endured after the King's coronation. In fact, Hardman says Charles's passion for planting trees has gone "up a notch".
