Prince Charles of Wales revealed in a BBC interview that his
antique Aston Martin sports car is fueled in part by cheese waste and leftover
English white wine.

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He addressed BBC
climate editor Justin Rowlatt about the practical ways he was incorporating his
environmental commitment into his everyday life in the interview, which was
shot in a garden at Balmoral. 

He mentioned one
of them as converting the fuel used in his car, which Queen Elizabeth II gifted
him on his 21st birthday.

“My old Aston
Martin, which I’ve had for 51 years, that runs on—can you believe this— surplus
English white wine and whey from the cheese process,” Prince Charles said to
Rowlatt.

Last year, Prince Charles told The Telegraph that he
insisted on Aston Martin engineers finding a new source of fuel for his car,
but that they informed him, “It’ll ruin the whole thing.”

“I said, ‘Well,
I won’t drive it then,’ so they got on with it, and now they admit that it runs
better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol,” he told the media
house about his conversation.

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The Aston Martin
of Prince Charles wasn’t the first royal vehicle he successfully modified. He
also revealed to The Telegraph that he battled to have the royal train run on
recycled cooking oil.

Rowlatt, who
noted that the prince first addressed environmental concerns in 1970, said in a
recent interview that he found it intriguing that after so much
criticism, he was invited to speak about the current climate crisis.

“I was accused
of being anti-science… it wasn’t much fun, as you can imagine,” Prince
Charles said.

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“Why do you
think I’ve done this for all these years? I’ve been doing this really to make
sure my children, your grandchildren, and everybody else’s have some future,”
he added.