Prince Harry could inherit his father’s country estate in Gloucestershire

Prince Harry could inherit his father’s country estate in Gloucestershire, a controversial new biography suggests.

The Prince of Wales would ‘love’ one of his sons to take over Highgrove, near Tetbury, whose lovingly restored organic garden is one of his proudest achievements.

As the Duke of Cambridge has made his family home at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, Harry would be the obvious choice to become Highgrove’s next custodian.

Prince Harry could inherit his father’s country estate in Gloucestershire, a new biography has claimed

The claim is made in the new biography of Charles by Catherine Mayer, published yesterday.

An unnamed insider is quoted as saying: ‘William seems to have chosen to live up in Norfolk, and yet his father has spent so long building [Highgrove] that I’m sure he would love one of his sons to inherit.

‘It’s a father’s expression of immortality. It embraces his commitment to sustainable farming and to the world of the botanical, the natural world

Since buying Highgrove in 1980, Prince Charles has transformed its once drab gardens into a popular visitor attraction that makes money for his charities. The 15-acre grounds include an organic farm, an ‘ego garden’ containing busts of Charles and a thatched treehouse built for the young William and Harry.

Highgrove certainly holds memories for Harry. Aged 16, he smoked cannabis in the grounds and drank heavily at a local pub in 2001. Four years later he hired a Nazi uniform from a shop in nearby Nailsworth for a fancy dress party.

But in recent years he has started to follow in his father’s footsteps and develop an interest in gardening. He visited the Chelsea Flower Show in 2013 to see a garden exhibited by his Sentebale charity.

It would certainly make an ideal party pad for the fun-loving Harry. And a handy place to have a stirrup cup for his nightclub-owner chum Guy Pelly, who has ridden with the Duke of Beaufort’s hunt in Gloucestershire since he was a teenager.

The Prince of Wales would reportedly  ‘love’ one of his sons to take over Highgrove, near Tetbury, in Gloucestershire (pictured), whose lovingly restored organic garden is one of his proudest achievements

from the Mail