Prince Andrew is handing leftover fruit and veg from the garden on his estate to struggling families.
A local charity gets the produce from Windsor’s Royal Lodge, the home the Duke of York shares with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson.
Their gardener Kevin has been a familiar sight for the past six months filling up the charity trolleys at Windsor Foodshare.
A royal source said: “Sarah calls it their ‘magic garden’ and has been encouraging Kevin constantly.
“So much has been produced that every week there is spare for the needy.
“Kevin takes the surplus to a local church where a charity puts it in a trolley and takes it inside and volunteers prepare all the weekly donations into boxes for collection.”
The church-based scheme posted a photo of Kevin on their Facebook page with a thank-you message.
It reads: “Thank you Kevin, thank you Prince Andrew, thank you Sarah Ferguson. We are delighted to receive your support.
“If anyone else can help us feed 130 people in a week in Windsor let us know!”
Struggling residents get a voucher to pick up a weekly box of produce from the charity, which dishes out over 2,500 items a week.
Andrew and Sarah divorced in 1996 but remain best of friends and live in separate wings at 16-bed Royal Lodge in the grounds of Windsor’s 4,500-acre Crown Estate.
In January the Duke was stripped of royal and military titles following sexual assault claims by victims of his paedophile friend, the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
In March, he paid up to £12million to settle a US civil case brought by one Epstein victim. He has denied any wrongdoing.
