‘THE KING HAS GOT IT RIGHT’
The Good Life star Felicity Kendal says she’s delighted to have come full circle as she helps promote His Majesty’s charity garden at the Chelsea Flower Show
Felicity sits in the shade of The King’s Trust Show Garden: Seeding Success, revealed in all its verdant glory at RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week
As Felicity Kendal sits on a bench carved from a single oak, all around her this year’s Chelsea Flower Show is bursting into bloom. Soil-laden diggers trundle past, plants are heaved into position and the faint sound of house music floats on the pollen-soaked air.
Amid it all, Felicity is serene, dark eyes intent and blonde blow-dry immaculate. Her secret? “A lot of cream,” she laughs.
“I do go to the gym, but you need a lot of cream. And I insist on a vodka and tonic. In that order.”
For the 78-year-old actress, a Chelsea local, this year’s show is particularly special: it features the first garden from the charity founded by the then Prince of Wales in 1976, for which Felicity has been an ambassador for more than 35 years.
The King’s Trust Show Garden: Seeding Success celebrates the “potential and resilience” of the nearly one million young people it has supported in the past 50 years.