Did one leave one's dressing gown on?

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But Prince Charles appeared to have borrowed a robe from the Harry Potter character's outlandish wardrobe when he stepped out in this get-up.

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Charles pictured at Highgrove, looking not unliike Harry Potter character Dumbledore

The unusual and somewhat shapeless brown coat - which bears more than a striking resemblance to a dressing gown - is even covered with strange handwoven symbols, rather like the Hogwarts professor's. There the sartorial similarity ends - for Dumbledore did not wear wellies.

According to aides, the prince acquired the the thick woollen garment during a recent foreign tour --very possibly Pakistan - and likes it so much that he regularly wears it out walking.

A Clarence House spokesman said: "It would have been a gift. He likes to go walking in it."

Charles wore the coat for a photo call with Eric Robson, a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Gardeners' Question Time, in The Stumpery, an area of woodland at Highgrove, the prince's Gloucestershire home.

In the interview, to mark the programme's 60th anniversary on Sunday, Charles attacks 'crazy' EU legislation which has banned the sale of some traditional English seeds in this country.

He also says that his interest in gardening began as a child when he and his sister, Princess Anne, were given a small vegetable patch to tend at Buckingham Palace.