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Queen Camilla looks around Chelsea Flower Show with rose breeder David J. C. Austin
Queen Camilla looks around Chelsea Flower Show with rose breeder David J. C. Austin
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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a five-day gardening extravaganza – and the pinnacle of the UK's horticultural calendar – is once again under way in London.

King Charles, who became the new Royal Horticultural Society patron this year, toured a number of the gardens with Queen Camilla on Monday. Then the event officially opened to the public on Tuesday with a "touch of horticultural glamour", said the BBC. Among those in attendance were Joanna Lumley, Judi Dench, and Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, "who revealed she was attending to try to work out why her wisteria had not flowered for seven years".

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.