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Prince William's secret stint as a joiner at Chatsworth House
The Prince's work experience at Chatsworth House in 2005 is recounted the former housekeeper's memoirs, who says he also made sausages and ate fish and chips with co-workers
Prince William spent a fortnight working as a joiner and making mince pies at a stately home owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, it has been revealed.
The Prince's "work experience" in 2005 at Chatsworth House in the Peak District is recounted in memoirs published by the former housekeeper.
Christine Robinson, 59, who spent more than 40 years at Chatsworth, said: "He spent a week working around the estate and made sausage rolls and mince pies.
"Then he spent a week at the house, dressed in overalls, drinking tea and eating fish and chips with the rest of the housemen and joiners.
"We were staging a ballet in the theatre, but discovered the stage was too short and had to be extended. He was carrying planks of wood through the shop dressed in workmen’s clothes."
Chatsworth House, which has more than 30 rooms open to the public, including a large art collection, is one of the most visited stately homes in England.
In Chatsworth: The Housekeeper’s Tale, Mrs Robinson says one of her favourite memories of the Prince's two-week stint almost 10 years ago was the effect on visitors to the Derbyshire mansion.
“The look on visitors’ faces was priceless, most obviously thought to themselves, ‘That joiner is the double of Prince William,’" she said.
"When two old ladies came straight out and asked him he admitted he really was the heir to the throne. He was, of course, charming.”
The Prince's stay completed a special year for Chatsworth in 2005, when it was also used to film the most recent adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.