A LOCK of the King’s hair plus his childhood barber’s scissors are up for sale for £10,000.
The clump was lopped off by royal hairdresser George Crisp when Charles was a schoolboy in the 1960s.
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The late Mr Crisp regularly closed his shop — Trumper’s in London’s Mayfair — to walk to Buckingham Palace to tend to the Windsors’ mops.
Having first trimmed George VI’s beard, he was retained by Queen Elizabeth after her dad’s death in 1952 and kept the lock of hair as a memento of his time with the young prince.
The “King Charles III Collection”, being auctioned online, also includes a Christmas card the prince sent the barber.
Previously sold by a descendant of Mr Crisp, the collection even has the silver scissors and plastic brown comb — plus an invite from the Queen to Buckingham Palace in 1971 to thank Mr Crisp for 42 years of royal service on his retirement.
Paul Fraser, of Paul Fraser Collectibles, which is selling the items, said: “No piece of Charles III memorabilia gets you closer to the real man than his hair.
“It’s more intimate than a signature and certainly rarer than a coronation tea towel.
“When this lock was snipped from his head in the 1960s, Charles was still a Gordonstoun schoolboy – with his life before him. Diana. Camilla. The Coronation. All was to come.
“The collection has wonderful provenance from the royal family’s personal hairdresser – you don’t get better credentials than that.”
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