King Charles has a landmark birthday today. And as one does when one lives in a palace, he will be spending it visiting a food bank.
The trip is a carefully calibrated statement of intent bringing together two of the 75-year-old monarch’s longstanding interests – environmentalism and tackling social ills – under the umbrella of his Coronation Food Project, which will distribute food that would otherwise be wasted to people living in food poverty. Launching it via an article in the Big Issue, the year after his baseball-capped son sold the magazine undercover on a London street, nods to Prince William’s recently launched campaign on homelessness – as does making Louise Casey, who led national efforts to get rough sleepers off the streets during lockdown, co-chair of the food project.
