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Is the Princess of Wales watermaxxing?

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27.06.2026

Arabella Byrne has narrated this article for you to listen to.

It’s no secret that the royals struggle with relatability. But every so often, they stumble upon a PR masterstroke, almost always by accident – think Queen Camilla’s not-so-secret fag habit, for example. Last week, a carton of Vita Coco coconut water (£2.60 from Tesco or, more likely, £3 from Waitrose) was spotted in the door of the Princess of Wales’s Audi as she dismounted to attend the wedding of Harriet Sperling to Peter Phillips. Not a warm, squashed bottle of garage water that may have been sitting in the footwell of the car with a dog, but coconut water. Water, maxxed; life, hacked.

Naturally, theories proliferate as to why the future queen would be glugging from what is widely known to be a hangover cure. Sorry, an ‘electrolyte-infused feel-good sports drink’. Vita Coco (approximately 95 per cent........

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