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King Charles has saved the World Conker Championship<\/p>\n
Organisers were concerned the contest would be called off after collectors reported a shortage of large, competition-standard horse chestnuts, but they have received a package of more than 300 “really good quality” conkers from Windsor Castle, meaning the 60th anniversary tournament can go ahead.<\/p>\n
St John Burkett, a championship committee member, told The Telegraph: \u201cIt was a real joy to have conkers sent to us this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Windsor Castle delivery was of really good quality. They were fantastic, they were the ones that really ensured we could go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The package from Windsor Castle had been \u201cpicked from the castle grounds and sent via the public relations department\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nSt John added: \u201cIntriguingly, we don\u2019t know who picked them, but like to imagine it might have been the King, at least for a few.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe are extremely grateful, and can already say a conker from Royal Windsor will win the final, as we have reserved them to be used in the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nConkers have also been imported from France and Italy for the competition.<\/p>\n
\nOrganiser Charles Whalley said: \u201cWe\u2019ve just had conkers from everywhere. It\u2019s been quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt just sort of sums up the love for the championships. We\u2019ve had them from all over Europe, Italy and France.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve just had so many emails from people offering conkers, saying plenty here, come and get them, or we can send them to you.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWith the support from Europe and what\u2019s left in the trees at the moment, we are delighted to say that all is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe annual World Conker Championships (WCC) will be held on Sunday (12.10.25) in Southwick, Northamptonshire and it is expected to have attract around 2,000 spectators.<\/p>\n
\nLast year’s competition was embroiled in controversy after men’s winner David Jakins – who has taken part since 1977 – was accused of swapping his conker for a metal one.<\/p>\n
\nHe denied the claims and was cleared of cheating following an investigation, which ruled he had \u201cachieved his title fairly\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nThe traditional game sees a horse chestnut threaded onto a piece of string with pairs of contestants taking it in turn to strike each other’s conker until one breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12 October 2025 King Charles has saved the World Conker Championships (WCC). King Charles has saved the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-493099","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\/115360173000460632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493099","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=493099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}