Royal Family News: King Charles III to Feature In BBC Show The Repair Shop

Royal Family news reveals that King Charles III is set to star in an episode of the BBC television show “The Repair Shop.” Read on and we’ll fill you in on the details.

Royal Family News – Sharing Interests

Royal Family news reveals that, according to GoodTo, Charles is going to star in an upcoming special episode to celebrate 100 years of the BBC Network. The King will reportedly choose an 18th Century Clock along with a piece of pottery fashioned for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee to be restored via The Repair Shop team of experts.

According to BBC, the episode was designed to explore a passion shared by the team and King Charles III, “preserving heritage craft skills.”

King Charles Joins The Repair Shop Team In Scotland

The episode was captured between last fall and March 2022, sometime before Charles ascended the throne in the wake of his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s death. “The Repair Shop” is a show that features a team of craftspeople who restore items brought to them by owners who thought them beyond repair.

In this particular episode, Charles invited “The Repair Shop” team, which reportedly included a ceramics expert, horologist, and future restorer, to Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland. They were tasked with restoring the 18th-century bracket clock and a Wemyss Ware ceramic item make for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

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King Charles – A Real Treat

According to CNN the team was given a tour of the estate and met with the next generation of craftspeople learning traditional skills like blacksmithing, stonemasonry, and wood carving via The Prince’s Foundation’s Building Craft Programme. Charles was reportedly reunited with the items in the spring of this year.

The show’s host Jay Blades, who is from Hackney in London said of his time with the then-future King, “You’ve got someone from a council estate and someone from a Royal estate that have the same interests about apprenticeships and heritage crafts, and it is unbelievable to see that two people from so far apart, from different ends of the spectrum, actually have the same interests.”

Julie Shaw, BBC commissioning editor, described the episode as “a real treat,” adding, “people will see the former Prince of Wales as you rarely see him — and he is as captivated by the skills of the team who work on his items as any of our ‘Repair Shop’ visitors,” Shaw added.

Not A Stranger to the Camera

Of course, King Charles III isn’t a stranger to television. In 2000 he popped up as himself in the 40th-anniversary episode of the ITV soap “Coronation Street.” He also showed up on ITV’s reality show “Keeping up with the Aristocrats.”

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