The Duchess of Cornwall, 74, previously discussed the love for gardening she shares with her husband, Prince Charles, 72. And the green-fingered royal revealed she spends “hours” with her grandchildren eating things straight from the vine.

       During a 2013 visit to Godolphin Junior School in Slough, Camilla described her love of eating raw peas.

       When asked whether she grows her own food, the Duchess said: “Yes I do, we grow all our own vegetables.

       “I think my favourites are broad beans...

       “But I'll tell you what I really like, I like peas straight from the garden.

       “If you take them straight from their pods they're delicious, really sweet.

       “I take all my grandchildren into the garden and they spend hours and hours eating peas.

       “They eat them and eat them until they're almost sick.”

       Camilla has 10 grandchildren - including five from her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles.

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       Earlier this month, the Duchess made a surprise appearance on BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World - and opened up to show host Monty Don about the challenges of dealing with some pesky vermin in her vegetable patch.

       Joining Mr Don at Longmeadow, she explained how mice and voles had eaten her precious crop.

       The Duchess said: “I'm very lucky I've got a big vegetable garden, but you get the mice, the voles this year, all ate the asparagus roots and then they got into the strawberries, so you can never win - there's always something.”

       Camilla also stressed the importance of gardening on people’s mental wellbeing during the pandemic, saying people have been able to discover an “affinity with the soil”.

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       She said: “You don't have to think about anything else, you're surrounded by nature, you've got birds singing, you've got bees buzzing about - there is something very healing about gardens.”