> ‘In all, I have been looking after bees 30-plus years. It started because of my wife’s love of honey. > ‘So I bought her a book called Keeping Bees In The Ba

> ‘In all, I have been looking after bees 30-plus years. It started because of my wife’s love of honey. > ‘So I bought her a book called Keeping Bees In The Back Garden. She read the book and said, “Well, it’s over to you now”. So I got the job of keeping bees in my home and it has just developed from that. I think it's neat that a self-taught hobbyist beekeeper who learned the craft by reading a book could go on to become the royal beekeeper.