Rum was the spirit of choice for William and Harry’s teenage parties in the basement at Highgrove – and now their father is creating his own blend. Made with the honey of Charles’s own bees on his country estate, Highgrove Honey Infused Rum is now being sold by the King’s Foundation – with the proceeds going to charity. But there is a sting in the tail – a 700ml bottle costs £44.95.
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The royal recipe marries five-year-old Jamaican rum with ‘royal bee honey’ sourced from the 150,000 bees that live at Charles’s Gloucestershire home. Their honey, blended with the rum, promises to produce a flavour of tropical fruit, soft spices and toasted coconut – with a potent kick of 38 per cent alcohol.
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The King has previously declared his love for the unique smell of rum, and was photographed knocking back a tot of ‘gunpowder proof’ liquor with sailors on an engagement in 2023. But the history of rum at Highgrove was not always so sweet. Prince Harry admitted in his memoir Spare that as teenagers he and his brother would party with friends in the basement beneath Highgrove, which they dubbed Club H.
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‘There was plenty of innocent snogging, which went hand in hand with the not-so-innocent drinking. Rum and coke, or vodka, usually in tumblers, with liberal splashes of Red Bull.’. King Charles is creating his own blend of honey-infused rum from bees on his own country estate.
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