King’s alternative health clinic helps 40 women conceive

A “holistic fertility programme” opened by the King has been credited with helping 40 women to have babies.

The Fertility Wellbeing course is run by the Prince’s Foundation — set up when he was the Prince of Wales — at Dumfries House, an 18th-century house in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, that he bought in 2007.

In 2019 he opened a purpose-built health centre on the 2,000-acre estate. It provides free alternative therapies, including reflexology, acupuncture, yoga and hypnotherapy. It runs a fertility programme for couples and is designed to complement NHS care.

The six-week course provides advice on conception, ovulation and nutrition, as well as the option of alternative medicines such as reflexology, which the King has long advocated.

The Mail on Sunday reported that half