{"id":400644,"date":"2025-09-05T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400644\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:32:09","slug":"you-wont-believe-who-once-called-king-charles-on-his-personal-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400644\/","title":{"rendered":"You Won\u2019t Believe Who Once Called King Charles on His Personal Phone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019d imagine that getting through to King Charles III on his personal line would be pretty difficult, but you won\u2019t believe who once gave the British monarch a cold call.<\/p>\n

According to his former butler, Grant Harold, King Charles was once on the receiving end of a very memorable and peculiar telephone conversation.<\/p>\n

Harold was in the employ of Charles at the time the royal was a Prince of some country called Wales, and not the King of England.<\/p>\n

He served His Majesty and other members of the \u2018old firm\u2019, such as Queen Camilla, Prince William, and Kate Middleton, at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire from 2004 to 2011.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the launch of his new book, \u2018The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service,\u2019 Harold has been taking a jolly wander down memory lane to relive just how remarkable those days as a royal butler actually were.<\/p>\n

The Mirror<\/a> reports that one of his fondest recollections is the day when King Charles\u2019s personal phone rang with a very strange request.<\/p>\n

Allow the 47-year-old to tell you in his own words.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember once somebody got hold of the King\u2019s private phone and they phoned him up thinking he was a Chinese takeaway,\u201d revealed the former butler.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey put in an order, trying to get a Chinese. He just said, \u2018I\u2019m not a Chinese takeaway, you\u2019ve got the wrong number.\u2019 But they kept phoning him back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grant added, \u201cEventually, he had to get us to speak to them and say, \u2018This is the wrong number\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

To add insult to injury, the hungry caller, perhaps simply looking for some spare ribs and some chicken fried rice, didn\u2019t seem to realise that they were talking to a future monarch. Like the butler said, they did make further attempts at ordering a King Prawn, but to no avail!<\/p>\n

Maybe it was Prince Harry playing a prank. Talking of the prankster prince, Grant also recalls the time Prince Harry invited the butler to share a takeaway with them.<\/p>\n

Grant said, \u201cI declined, but I sat down with them while they had it, just informally. It was really fun, and I thought, This is obviously how they\u2019ve been brought up.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it would seem that Prince William was a little less easy-going than his younger brother, and Grant recalls unintentionally offending him during a conversation about ageing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018From a man\u2019s point of view, the worst is when you start receding, you start going bald\u2019. Kate started sniggering, and William said, \u2018Thanks, Grant!\u2019 before leaning forward to show his hairline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen Camilla, it seems, has a great sense of humour. When Grant once overdid it with the spray tan, she affectionately snapped, \u2018What have you done? What colour did you pick, Oompa Loompa?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Keen to get in on the action and ridicule the lowly butler even further, Prince William also joined in the right royal ribbing.<\/p>\n

Grant recalls,\u201dWilliam said, \u2018What have you done? Has it gone everywhere?’\u201d.<\/p>\n

After confirming that it had, the butler recalled, \u201cHe said, \u2018Can I see it?\u2019 I had to take my shoes and socks off to show him my toes, which were orange. He thought it was brilliant. He got his own back!\u201d<\/p>\n

The fun it would appear, never stopped!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019d imagine that getting through to King Charles III on his personal line would be pretty difficult, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-400644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153125147659999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}