Activists stole three lambs from the Sandringham estate, which belongs to King Charles III. Three women are said to have gone to the grounds in Norfolk and taken the animals from Appleton Farm.

"Rosa, Sarah and Rose have turned themselves in to the police," reads a tweet about the activists. In a discussion about the relationship with animals and nature, the royal family could take "a pioneering role", says one observer.. The action did not only provoke positive reactions. It is also bloody in the ancestral line of the monarch: King Charles is planning a visit to his ancestors in Transylvania.