Charles’ interest in súgán was last straw for palace officials

Two súgán chairs, a súgán egg basket, and other straw-made items are on their way to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall after a visit to Muckross traditional farms in Killarney last week.

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, were so taken with the farms that they stayed over the allotted time during a tightly scheduled visit to Kerry on Friday.

When the Prince’s great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria visited Killarney almost 160 years ago, she went back to Kensington Palace with highly polished furniture inlaid with yew pictures of Killarney scenes which had been made in a local furniture school.