TV’s Repair Shop group discovered themselves underneath a brand new form of strain when fixing a nineteenth century ceramic clock… as a result of it belongs to the King.
The present’s presenter Jay Blades and the group invited Charles to affix them for an episode to mark the BBC’s centenary, when he was nonetheless the Prince of Wales.
In The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, King Charles wants assist with a bracket clock and a Wemyss Ware piece made for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
He informed them the broken nineteenth century ceramic piece fell over when somebody was opening a window. “They didn’t own up,” he stated.
Blades and the ceramics skilled Kirsten Ramsay, the horologist Steve Fletcher and the furnishings restorer Will Kirk got down to restore the clock and ceramics.
And earlier than the outcomes are unveiled, Charles asks the crew: “Have you sorted this? The suspense is killing me!”
In the episode, he additionally meets college students from the Prince’s Foundation Building Craft Programme, a coaching initiative that teaches abilities akin to blacksmithing, masonry and wooden carving, and he referred to as the dearth of vocational training in faculties “a great tragedy”.
The King added: “Not everybody is designed for the academic.”
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“I know from The Prince’s Trust, I have seen the difference we can make to people who have technical skills which we need all the time.
“I believe that is been the most important drawback, typically that’s forgotten. Apprenticeships are important, however they only deserted apprenticeships for some cause.
“It gives people intense satisfaction and reward.”
‘I simply love the tick-tock’
Speaking about his love of clocks, he added: “To me, I just love the sound, the tick-tock but also if they chime, that’s why I love grandfather clocks.
“I discover it moderately reassuring in a humorous manner, they usually turn out to be actually particular elements of the home… the beating coronary heart of it. So that is why they matter to me.
“I’m afraid it is something I learnt from my grandmother, she had great fun putting a few together and trying to get them to chime at the same time in the dining room, which made it very enjoyable because everybody had to stop talking.”
Source: information.sky.com”