Royal crumble! King Charles launches his own range of COOKIES in £7.99 tin decorated with his own artwork
- They are all decorated with the King’s own watercolour of Sandringham House
- People can buy items at the visitor centre on the Royal estate in north Norfolk
- The cost of the boxes and tubs will range from £4.99 to £7.99
King Charles has launched a new range of Sandringham-branded biscuits and confectionery in packaging adorned with his own artwork.
The boxes and tubs costing £4.99 to £7.99 are all decorated with the King’s own watercolour picture of Sandringham House.
It means that people can now own a piece of the monarch’s art for just a few pounds, compared to the £6,000 cost of buying a limited edition print of the same painting.
The range of snacks and treats is being sold in the gift shop at the visitor centre on the 20,000 acre Royal estate in north Norfolk.
They are on shelves alongside stacks of £8.99 copies of the childrens’ book The Old Man of Lochnagar, written by the King when he was Prince Charles in 1980.
King Charles has launched a new range of Sandringham-branded biscuits and confectionery in packaging adorned with his artwork
Charles painted his picture of Sandringham House at least 32-years-ago as it appears in a compilation book of his paintings. Pictured: King Charles III at Berlin Central Station in Berlin, Germany, March 31
The range of snacks and treats is being sold in the gift shop at the visitor centre on the 20,000 acre Royal estate in north Norfolk. Pictured: A view of Sandringham House
The £7.99 biscuit selection box includes mini chocolate and gingerbread cookies while boxes of toffees or clotted cream fudge are priced at £4.99.
Chocolate chip biscuits, costing £4.99, are described on the Sandringham website as being ‘the perfect buttery biscuits to accompany Sandringham’s Christmas Blend of Hot Chocolate’.
Tubs of barley sugars, sherbert lemons and mint humbugs are also available for £4.99, alongside £3.99 bars of milk chocolate, all emblazoned with the King’s picture.
The packaging for the chocolate bars states that they are ‘handmade in the UK using natural ingredients and sustainably grown cocoa, and are free from Palm Oil’.
The range was apparently designed before the Queen died, as the packaging says the picture of Sandringham House is being used ‘by kind permission of HRH The Prince of Wales’.
A message on the back of all the products, states: ‘Sandringham has been the much-loved country retreat and private home of British monarchs since 1862.’
The King has long described himself as an ‘enthusiastic amateur’ painter, although he never sells his original pictures.
In a TV documentary called Royal Paintbox in 2000, he spoke of his love for painting, saying it ‘transports me into another dimension which refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach’.
The King has long described himself as an ‘enthusiastic amateur’ painter, although he never sells his original pictures
As Monarch, he personally owns Sandringham, meaning that he potentially profits from gift shop sales
A message on the back of all the products, states: ‘Sandringham has been the much-loved country retreat and private home of British monarchs since 1862’
A limited number of signed and framed prints of the King’s Sandringham House painting are currently on sale in up-market London galleries for £6,000 each.
Other prints of the King’s pictures, featuring views of Windsor Castle, Highgrove and Balmoral as well as Greek island landscapes and the Swiss ski resort Klosters can also be bought for thousands of pounds.
It was revealed in 2016 that sales of his prints, costing up to £15,000 each, had raised more than £6 million.
He has not personally profited from the sale of any of his prints, as all the money has gone to his charitable foundation.
But as Monarch, he personally owns Sandringham, meaning that he potentially profits from gift shop sales, although proceeds are believed to be ploughed back into the running of the estate.
Charles painted his picture of Sandringham House at least 32-years-ago as it appears in a compilation book of his paintings, entitled HRH The Prince of Wales Watercolours, and published in 1991.
The book quotes Charles as describing the difficulty of painting the house where the Royal family gather at Christmas.
The £7.99 biscuit selection box includes mini chocolate and gingerbread cookies while boxes of toffees or clotted cream fudge are priced at £4.99
People can now own a piece of the monarch’s art for just a few pounds, compared to the £6,000 cost of buying a limited edition print of the same painting
Tubs of barley sugars, sherbert lemons and mint humbugs are also available for £4.99, alongside £3.99 bars of milk chocolate, all emblazoned with the King’s picture
He says in the book: ‘Until I tried to paint Sandringham I thought Balmoral was difficult enough…But Sandringham is in a league of its own, as I discovered the moment I started to draw the house.
‘It is a veritable minefield of gables, bow windows, parapets, balustrades, towers, cupolas and gigantic chimneys.
‘Trying to get the perspective right was an intriguing challenge in itself…I made life more difficult for myself by selecting a pretty impossible angle from which to do the painting, but I thought it would be more interesting than most others.’
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