If any member of the royal family was going to be unveiled as a secret very-successful artist, we would have thought it’d be Kate Middleton, a copy of whose sailboat rendering we still have framed in our kitchen. But no, per a new report from The Telegraph, Prince Charles—yes, Charles, as in father-to-William-and-Harry Charles—is “one of Britain’s most successful living artists, selling millions of pounds worth of prints of his paintings.” Prince Charles—Renaissance man, modern-day artiste—has earned £2 million (equivalent to roughly $2.8 million) from his artistic output, since 1997. (All of the money Charles makes from his paintings goes toward his charitable foundation.)

The prince paints with watercolors, exclusively, and he does not sell the originals. Per Clarence House, he does his painting “in the open air, often finishing a picture in one go.” They added, “Sometimes the Prince paints during his skiing holidays, and during overseas tours when possible.” This is completely revolutionizing our entire conception of Prince Charles! We’re now envisioning him listening to Adele’s new album on repeat, writing in a diary about a leaf he saw breezing past his path that morning, shaking his head ever so slightly when Camilla peers her head in asking if he wants half of a croissant.

Charles has discussed his painting hobby before. In a 2013 documentary, he said, in somewhat dramatic phrasing, “We walk away and shuffle off our mortal coil, but these things live on” (the “these things” referring to his paintings, we assume). As for how he was “discovered,” Charles was apparently contacted in 1989 by a central London gallery owner, Anna Hunter. “I saw his work as a water colourist in a Sunday newspaper magazine article in 1989,” Hunter said. “Until then I had no idea he was an artist. I wrote him a letter suggesting that if his works were made into signed lithographs, they could be sold to raise money for his charitable foundation.”

Charles’s most recent work—a series of three lithographs (100 copies made of each)—was released in 2014. One of them already has sold out, for close to £250,000 ($360,000). (So,, you know, if this whole, uh, Being A Royal Prince thing doesn’t work out for him . . . )