Jason Marple’s lawn is mowed into sharp stripes. But halfway from his back door to the neighbouring field, the strips stop, and the back half is an overgrown tangle. He doesn’t own that part. King Charles III does. “I’m not mowing his half. I wish he’d mow it more often,” Marple jokingly complained.
The back of Marple’s garden is a very small part of the new king’s Sandringham country estate, in north Norfolk, where the royals traditionally celebrate Christmas.
