King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret...

King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret Podcast Recording

Unbeknownst to the larger public, Blanchett and King Charles secretly met last July in bucolic Windsor Park to break bread over their mutual interests. They joined forces with Dr. Elinor Breman, a former actor who is now Kew’s senior research manager in seed conservation to record the Unearthed: The Need for Seeds in the Gardens of Windsor Palace produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the first episode of which was released on Monday, Oct. 20. Both Blanchett and King Charles have advocated for issues of sustainability and the protection of biodiversity, topics discussed with Breman on the podcast. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which manages the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, is renowned for its role in nature conservation, and celebrated its 25-year anniversary with the podcast recording. King Charles has a history with the organization. In 2000, then still Prince of Whales, Charles officially opened the seed bank, of which he is patron. Images from the conversation show the sartorial symmetry between King Charles and Blanchett. Whether it was coordinated or not, both, in fact, opted for an elegant gray jacket with a well-defined pattern for the meeting. If Blanchett opted for the classic Prince of Wales pattern (an avowed homage to the sovereign? Possibly), the king opted instead for pinstripes, pairing the jacket with his matching pants, making for a refined ensemble. Blanchett, on the other hand, paired her double-breasted jacket with what at first glance appears to be a chemise dress with a maxi gold print, by Erdem, and black leather shoes, just like the royal. A fortuitous, yet curious color and style complicity. It was King Charles’s second podcast appearance of the year, after he shared some of his favorite songs in a March Apple Music special. Blanchett, who is ambassador for Wakehurst, says in the podcast, “There is an urgency to the work that the seed bank does. I was shocked to learn that 97% of the wildflower meadows have been decimated. I don’t think it’s something that we quite understand here, because we look around us and in the immediate term, we see so much natural beauty. But we don’t think how fragile it is.” Originally published in Vanity Fair Italia

Unbeknownst to the larger public, Blanchett and King Charles secretly met last July in bucolic Windsor Park to break bread over their mutual interests. They joined forces with Dr. Elinor Breman, a former actor who is now Kew’s senior research manager in seed conservation to record the Unearthed: The Need for Seeds in the Gardens of Windsor Palace produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the first episode of which was released on Monday, Oct. 20.
Both Blanchett and King Charles have advocated for issues of sustainability and the protection of biodiversity, topics discussed with Breman on the podcast. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which manages the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, is renowned for its role in nature conservation, and celebrated its 25-year anniversary with the podcast recording. King Charles has a history with the organization. In 2000, then still Prince of Whales, Charles officially opened the seed bank, of which he is patron.
Images from the conversation show the sartorial symmetry between King Charles and Blanchett. Whether it was coordinated or not, both, in fact, opted for an elegant gray jacket with a well-defined pattern for the meeting. If Blanchett opted for the classic Prince of Wales pattern (an avowed homage to the sovereign? Possibly), the king opted instead for pinstripes, pairing the jacket with his matching pants, making for a refined ensemble.
Blanchett, on the other hand, paired her double-breasted jacket with what at first glance appears to be a chemise dress with a maxi gold print, by Erdem, and black leather shoes, just like the royal. A fortuitous, yet curious color and style complicity.
It was King Charles’s second podcast appearance of the year, after he shared some of his favorite songs in a March Apple Music special. Blanchett, who is ambassador for Wakehurst, says in the podcast, “There is an urgency to the work that the seed bank does. I was shocked to learn that 97% of the wildflower meadows have been decimated. I don’t think it’s something that we quite understand here, because we look around us and in the immediate term, we see so much natural beauty. But we don’t think how fragile it is.”
Originally published in Vanity Fair Italia