Blur's James to make Royal cheese

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Blur bassist-turned-farmer Alex James is to start making cheese for the Prince of Wales.

The 40-year-old had signed a deal to produce a cheese using half a million litres of organic milk from a pedigree Ayrshire herd.

The cheese will be sold through the Duchy of Cornwall estate.

Blur recently reformed as a foursome after a nine-year gap to play a series of gigs including performances at London's Hyde Park and Glastonbury.

'Poshest cheese'

"It will be the poshest cheese in the world but it's only going to cost £3 - I think everyone should be able to afford royal cheese," James told The Times.

A spokesman for the Prince said: "Duchy Originals is delighted to be working with Alex James, one of Britain's most exciting and passionate new cheese makers, to produce a cheese using the milk form the herd of Ayrshire cows on the Duchy Home Farm."

The musician-turned-farmer lives on a cheese farm in Oxfordshire.

His first goat's cheese, Little Wallop, won silver at the Cheese of the Year Awards in 2008.

If James supplies the cheese to the Prince for five years, he could earn a Royal Warrant.