Speaking to CountryLife, James, 38, has now revealed: “My sister Catherine [The Princess of Wales] shares a love of bees and has a few hives herself — I wouldn’t say it’s a competition, but we definitely compare notes.”
He also revealed that he has “never stopped being fascinated” by bees.
Princess Kate is just one of a number of royals who enjoy beekeeping, with King Charles and Meghan Markle also having their own beehives.
In 2023, The Princess of Wales shared a photograph of herself at one of her beehives in a beekeeping suit to mark World Bee Day.
Then just months ago, Princess Kate and Melania Trump stepped out for a joint engagement in September and spent time with a group of Squirrel Scouts on the Windsor Castle estate.
The princess organised a packed lunch for the children, which included sandwiches made with honey from Kate’s own beehive.
This is not the first time she has made a gesture like this, with Prince William’s wife taking a jar of her own homemade honey with her on a visit to The Natural History Museum in 2021.
She could be heard saying to children at the Urban Nature Project event: “Would you like to try some? This came specially from my beehive.”
