King Charles doesn’t eat lunch and avoids drinking water between meals so he doesn’t have to waste time with toilet breaks, according to new claims made by a royal source.
Charles also used to carry around his own tonsils in a glass jar after they were removed, according to the startling claims made this week.
In an article about the new King’s health and fitness regime the Telegraph also revealed that an old Polo injury meant Charles used to perform headstands and greet guests lying flat on his back.
After a breakfast of fruit, nuts, seeds, soft boiled eggs, and a cup of tea, the King won’t eat again until 5pm when he has a tea consisting of sandwiches and cake, the paper reported.
According to the claims, the King does not even drink water between meals to avoid unscheduled loo breaks.
Reportedly this is because he does not want to keep people waiting.
His decision to skip lunch is also partly due to Charles’ wish that he is never photographed while eating, as it may cause him to appear undignified.
However despite skipping lunch the King does habitually take afternoon tea at 5pm consisting of small sandwiches and a slice of fruit cake accompanied by his second cuppa of the day.
NHS advice is that people should drink 6 to 8 cups or glasses of fluid a day. Water, lower-fat milk and sugar-free drinks, including tea and coffee, all count and lower the risk of dehydration.
"If dehydration is ongoing (chronic), it can affect your kidney function and increase the risk of kidney stones. It can also lead to muscle damage and constipation," warns the NHS website.
When travelling his entourage always includes a personal chef to cook all his meals as well as a stock of booze so a member of his staff can mix his favourite drink, a vodka martini. A GP is also always near at hand.
Charles’ medical mishaps are well-documented, with his son Harry revealing in his autobiography Spare that his dad was often forced to perform headstands in his underwear due to back pain.
“He performed them daily, in a pair of boxers, propped against a door or hanging from a bar like a skilled acrobat,” he wrote.
A degenerative back problem from a polo injury saw Charles in pain and unable to sit still, even having to receive some visitors lying flat on his back in the early 1990s.
Bizarrely, the paper also reports that the new monarch had his tonsils removed when he was eight, and insisted on carrying them with him in a glass jar at all times for several months.
He also suffered from sinus trouble which kept him in bed for a week at a time while at Gordonstoun boarding school in Scotland and as a youth he had his appendix removed, though he did not keep it in a jar.
