King Charles III revealed in a special episode of The Repair shop that he did not recognise the National Anthem when it was played by a clock on his mantlepiece.
In the one-off episode, filmed in 2021, when the royal was still Prince of Wales, he admitted it took him years to recognise the tune, played from a clock in Clarence House.
In the royal edition, which marks the BBC's centenary, the King tasked Jay Blades and his experts to repair an 18th-century bracket clock and a 19th century ceramic piece made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
