Princess Kate revealed herself as the royal family’s true bee-lover when she posted a photograph of herself in full beekeeping gear to Instagram in honor of World Bee Day.
But the association between the British royal family and the hives that supply their honey goes back much further. According toBees are thought to have arrived in what is now Britain before 5000 BCE, and in folklore it was occasionally referred to as the “Isle of Honey.” When William the Conqueror took control of England in 1066, he created royal forests and claimed ownership of the wild honey found within.
Beginning with Henry II in 1272, beeswax was used to create effigies and masks of dead monarchs, and some of the surviving ones are still on displayIn the early modern period, books about beekeeping were often dedicated to kings or queens, but when naturalists confirmed that beehives are ruled by females in the 18th century, the connection between British queens and the nation’s bee hives was solidified.
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