Fact · Berneray
The King spent a week on Berneray as an anonymous crofter
In 1987 the world's press discovered that Prince Charles had been living on Berneray as an ordinary crofter, lifting potatoes and dipping sheep under the name of the family who hosted him. He came back in 1999 to open the causeway.
Berneray made world news in 1987 when it emerged that Charles, Prince of Wales, had spent time on the island living the life of a crofter with a local family, planting potatoes, dipping sheep and going out with the fishing boats, largely unrecognised. He returned in April 1999 to formally open the Berneray causeway, the first of the modern causeways that now join the islands, which had made the Otternish ferry redundant the previous December.
Sources / notes: Wikipedia: Berneray, North Uist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berneray,_North_Uist Wikipedia: Otternish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otternish