JUST as the country is celebrating the news that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are planning to marry, Pewsey craftsman Phil Lester is hoping they might buy one of his unique tables for their home.

Mr Lester has a friend who works in the gardens at Prince Charles' home of Highgrove House near Tetbury.

He said he was unable to reveal his friend's name but added: "She came along to an open evening we had and she said that one of our tables was just the sort of thing Prince Charles would like."

His Wiltshire Joinery workshops on the Salisbury Road Business Park in Pewsey make all sorts of high quality furniture.

However it specialises in using a rare American wood called sierra buck eye which has fantastic natural grain.

Unusually the wood does not come from the trunk of the tree or the branches but from its contorted roots that are dynamited out of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains .

Mr Lester has developed a special resin that gives the softwood tables a mirror like sheen but leaves the beautiful natural markings exposed.

One table which he has called the Labyrinth has a particularly contorted natural pattern hence its name.

He said: "I have put together a CD-rom and had photographs taken of the table and these have been given to Prince Charles."