Prince William opens up on past job selling CDs at ‘dodgy car boot sale’

The Prince of Wales has recalled working a part-time job as a young boy, selling CDs at what he described as a "dodgy car boot sale".

William reflected on helping out at a local country fair after being reminded by a past buyer while visiting the Welsh village of Skenfrith to inspect its flood defences.

Local residents Rod and Helen Wyatt prompted the nostalgia during a conversation with the prince regarding how their family has endured four major floods in six years at the Monmouthshire settlement.

“First time I met you, you were this high,” Mr Wyatt said, holding up his hand waist high.

“In Glanusk Estate – you sold me a CD from a bric-a-brac stall.”

William laughed and replied: “Dodgy car boot sale, yes I remember that.”

Mr Wyatt joked: “Still doing that?” and the future king replied: “No, I don’t sell… it’s dried up a bit that one, perhaps I should reopen it.”

Mr Wyatt’s wife added that they could not remember the title of the CD and the prince confessed: “I got up to a lot… we had some fun round there.”

Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell is the family home of William’s former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, now known as Alexandra Pettifer, and is the venue of the popular Green Man Festival.

Ms Pettifer cared for the prince and his brother the Duke of Sussex for much of the 1990s and her late mother was Dame Shan Legge-Bourke, a former Lord Lieutenant of Powys for 20 years until she retired from the role in 2018.

Speaking on the flooding, William said a “holistic” approach is needed to tackle it.

He sympathised withSkenfrith residents who might be “anxious” about extreme weather events he said were no longer “one in 50-year” occurrences but seemed to be happening every year.

William was visiting the area to learn about how communities have been affected by recent flooding and what measures are being taken by local authorities and other agencies to mitigate future incidents.

The future king even got behind the wheel of a tractor sowing winter wheat with the aid of satellite navigation, when he visited the Duchy of Cornwall’s first regenerative farm tenant.

William replied: “It must be so demoralising for you now, the worry each year you’ve got to go through that again, potentially, is becoming more frequent.

“They keep talking about a one in 50-year event, it doesn’t make sense anymore.

“It might be in the researching and scientific point of view – it’s happening every year now, it’s mad.

“So, it’s trying to understand how we can do a better holistic view of the whole catchment area, so we’re dealing with the whole problem.”