King Charles has always been passionate about the environment (Image: Jaimi Joy – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
once revealed that he fuels his 55-year-old Aston Martin with two very unusual items. The monarch, 76, was first given the car for his 21st birthday in 1969, and, even though he has had it for 55 years, he still uses it on a regular basis.
As a lifelong advocate for protecting and preserving the environment, the King has often spoken about how we can all reduce our personal impact – even going as far to have his beloved car to run on two unexpected ingredients.
The surprising fact was revealed by His Majesty himself in a about environmental problems. During the chat, the King revealed that his car runs on bioethanol made from surplus wine and cheese.
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King Charles was gifted an Aston Martin for his 21st birthday (Image: Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
As reported by , the engineers at Aston Martin found that their cars could also function on leftover English white wine blended with whey, which is now how the King’s beloved Aston Martin functions.
The King once revealed: “The engineers at Aston said, ‘Oh, it’ll ruin the whole thing,’ I said, ‘Well I won’t drive it then,’ so they got on with it and now they admit that it runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol… and also, it smells delicious as you’re driving along.”
The Prince and Princess of Wales later used the King’s car to depart from Buckingham Palace for Clarence House post their wedding ceremony in 2011. The car was decorated with balloons and a replacement license plate which read: ‘Just Wed’.
The Prince and Princess of Wales drove away from Buckingham Palace in King Charles’ Aston Martin (Image: Getty)
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The monarch, who has always been passionate about the environment, also made sure the royal train was converted and made more environmentally friendly. He said: “It took me a long time to battle to get them to run it on used cooking oil. Which actually, in the end, worked quite well.”
As well as adapting some of his modes of transport to be more environmentally friendly, it is also believed the King has made some adaptations at his royal homes.
This includes putting in biomass boiler systems, which reduce carbon emissions, and installing solar panels at Clarence House and at Highgrove. Charles also said air heat pumps are used where possible in royal homes during the 2021 chat with the .