Now you can paint like King Charles... but only if you have £160 to spare on a ... trends now
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He is a keen amateur painter whose artworks have raised millions for charity. But even King Charles might baulk at the price of a £160 painting kit on sale at Sandringham, his Norfolk estate.
The limited edition watercolour set contains just one 2B pencil, two synthetic sable brushes, a cold pressed watercolour paper pad, a ceramic mixing palette, a putty rubber and a tiny bit of sponge, as well as 12 paint tubes.
Art suppliers Winsor & Newton describe it as an 'exclusively curated, limited edition set in a quality wooden keepsake box'.
But identical kits of its watercolours without the exclusive Sandringham branding are on sale online for less than half the price.
Canny shoppers can also pay far less for similar painting kits at the discount Range store eight miles away in King's Lynn. The shop – where the Princess of Wales was spotted shopping for art supplies for Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – has a set with 12 paint tubes, three
