His car that runs on cheese and wine

CHARLES has come clean on what he uses to power his beloved Aston Martin DB6 – wine and cheese.

The future king revealed that he converted the car, which he has been driving for more than half a century, to run on waste-derived bio-ethanol produced from a combination of wine unsuitable for human consumption and whey, a by-product of cheese manufacturing.

Charles also revealed that he had cut meat, fish and dairy out of his diet on certain days in a bid to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

‘For years I haven’t eaten meat and fish on two days a week and I don’t eat dairy products on one day a week,’ he told the BBC. ‘That’s one way to do it.

‘If more did that, you would reduce a lot of the pressure on the environment and everything else.’

Charles said he wasn’t advocating that everyone cut meat, fish and dairy out of their diet entirely, just encouraging them to eat ‘less but better quality’.

‘That approach to farming is less damaging than the industrialised approach with intensive everything and [that] causes huge pressure and damage,’ he said.

He added that what cows ‘produce at the back end’ is also ‘incredibly important’ to replenishing the soil.

Challenged about his lifestyle, which includes heating several large homes, the prince said he tried to make sure his energy use was as sustainable as possible, including installing biomass boiler systems and solar panels and using more electric cars.

‘The flying hopefully will become easier and more sustainable rapidly, if the right moves are taken,’ he said.

‘Certainly flying has been done much less recently, people have been doing things online as I’ve been trying to do so.’ He added: ‘I can’t do it single-handedly.’