King Charles Is "Livid" Over Drama in Sandringham and Fired His Gamekeeper
King Charles, man who is known to have "temper tantrums," is apparently furious over the lack of pheasants available for him to shoot in Sandringham. Yes, you read that correctly.
As you may be aware, the royals spend their Christmas holidays in Sandringham and traditionally go shooting—a controversial "sport" that some members of the family have opted out of. But Charles is alllll about killing the wildlife on his property, and is allegedly having a meltdown over the possibility of canceling this year's Boxing Day shoot. To the point where he's fired a "long-serving gamekeeper."
"It was a total cock-up. No birds, no bang, just red faces," a source tells The Sun, who reports that Charles is "livid" about the situation. "The King wasn't having it." As for the gamekeeper, the insider notes 'Let's just say he's well and truly plucked off."
While King Charles is pretty chill in public, sources have said that he doesn't like it when things don't go his way.
Back in 2024, a former employee told the Daily Beast, "Charles can have a terrible temper. Anything he perceives as incompetence particularly brings it out. He doesn't suffer fools gladly. In fairness to him, as anyone who has actually worked with him will tell you, he himself is always extremely well prepared, well-read on the subject matter of people he meets and is working with, diligent and respectful of expertise. The counter of that is that he expects other people to show him the same respect; he can certainly go off at the staff in pretty blunt terms when he perceives someone has not done their job properly, or is just being, to use one of his preferred terms, 'idiotic.'"
Oh, and royal author Tom Quinn said in his book Yes Ma'am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants (in an excerpt from The Times) that both King Charles and Prince William are "prone to tantrums if things are not done to their liking."
Cool, just going to leave you with King Charles melting down over a pen:
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