King Charles Meets David Beckham at Chelsea Flower Show

King Charles and Queen Camilla attended this year's Chelsea Flower Show. They met Sir David Beckham and Alan Titchmarsh inside a rustic cottage exhibit called the Curious Garden. Sir David Beckham co-designed a garden with the King and Alan Titchmarsh for the show. The Royal Horticultural Society lifted its ban on garden gnomes for only the second time this year.

The King viewed a row of garden gnomes displayed in a cottage inspired by his Highgrove house. Ceramic gnomes modeled after Sir David Beckham, Alan Titchmarsh, and King Charles were placed on a shelf inside the exhibit. Other displays included a carved wooden figure of Mother Nature from the Campaign to Protect Rural England and sculptures made from driftwood.

The Tate Britain garden featured a water feature and a Barbara Hepworth sculpture. The Eden Project presented a sustainable garden themed around Morecambe in Lancashire that will be relocated there after the show. A large display of roses and a tower of more than 20 varieties of fuchsia were also on view.

An erotic gifts company called Lovehoney created a display titled "Aphrodite's hothouse" featuring suggestive-shaped flowers. The designer stated the exhibit was intended as a humorous presentation acknowledging the romantic and sometimes erotic qualities of flowers. Thousands of visitors are expected to attend the show in the coming days.