Charles always asks for the same thing for his birthday

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00:00Charles always asks for the same thing for his birthday.

00:04King Charles III reportedly asks for the same birthday gift every year.

00:08According to King Charles III's former butler, Grant Harreld,

00:12the monarch likes to get anything to satiate his green thumb.

00:15He would always ask for things for the garden, the ex-staffer told Daily Express.

00:20He's previously asked for benches, plants, and trees.

00:23Gardening is his real passion.

00:25Royal gardener Jack Stooks backed up Grant Harreld's claim.

00:29That's what he tends to put on his list, the greenery specialist told Daily Express.

00:34He would ask for trees, shrubs, roses, and hedging.

00:36He would plant them at one of the royal gardens,

00:38either Clarence House, Buckingham Palace, Windsor, Sandringham, or up in Scotland.

00:43Even Hollywood's biggest names know what's on King Charles III's wish list.

00:47Elton John gave him an Indian bean tree,

00:50a golden Indian bean tree that used to grow at Highgrove,

00:53which unfortunately has now died, Jack Stooks said.

00:55Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keeley Shea Smith, gave the king a magnolia.

01:01The king planted it in the apple orchard by the orchard room.

01:04It's a massive tree now.

01:05They actually once came around the garden and I met them both.

01:08And they were just so lovely and down to earth and normal.

01:12We showed them the tree that they'd gifted him years before,

01:15which was really nice.

01:16King Charles III's love of gardening began when he and Princess Anne were young.

01:21My interest in gardening was always there,

01:23the 77-year-old said in a 2010 interview.

01:27As a child, my sister and I were given a little plot at Buckingham Palace

01:30at the back of the border for growing vegetables.

01:32But it's not until you have somewhere of your own that it becomes more possible.

01:37The thing about Highgrove was that it was a blank canvas,

01:40so I had to start from scratch.

01:41King Charles III also has a deep passion for environmental conservation.

01:46Do we want to go down in history as the people who did nothing

01:49to bring the world back from the brink in time to restore the balance

01:52when we could have done?

01:53I don't want to, he said during a passionate speech about climate change

01:57at the World Economic Forum in 2020.