Buckingham Palace Just Released a New Portrait of Queen Camilla for Her Birthday
Queen Camilla is turning 78 this week, and Buckingham Palace has released a new image to mark the milestone. The picture was taken earlier this month in the garden of her private Wiltshire home, Raymill, by often-favored photographer Chris Jackson.
As is typical for non-milestone royal birthdays, the Queen is not scheduled to make any public appearances on her birthday, which falls on Thursday, July 17. A Palace aide said that she would be spending it privately at home.
The Queen's birthday comes after a busy time for her ahead of her summer break. Today, she was in Devon carrying out a string of engagements including a visit to Children's Hospice South West in her role as their patron. On Tuesday, she was made an honorary Freeman and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers in the City of London. The honor was in recognition of her interest in literacy which is a big charitable focus of hers. And on Monday, Camilla visited Battersea Dogs and Cats home in her role as their patron.
Last week, she played a prominent part in the state visit from France's President Macron and his wife Brigitte. And she also managed to squeeze in a trip to Wimbledon to watch the men's quarterfinals alongside her sister Annabel Elliot.
To coincide with the Queen's visit to Battersea, another new image was released of her alongside rescue pup Moley. Also taken by photographer Chris Jackson at Camilla's home in Raymill, the image showed her smiling and holding the puppy up for the camera. It is Moley's second time appearing in an official photograph, as the Palace also released one in May this year ahead of the Queen's visit to a dog garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
At 78 years old, Camilla has now been Queen for almost three years and polling shows that around half of the British public currently have a positive view of her. This is a far cry from polling of the noughties, which suggested that people would struggle to ever accept her as their Queen.
For many years as Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla's outings often stayed more under the radar as she carried out somewhere between 200 and 300 engagements annually. But her profile as the consort to the head of state has meant that as she approaches 80, she is now very much center stage. In February this year, the couple's 20th wedding anniversary coincided with their state visit to Italy.
The King and Queen are soon expected to pause official engagements for their summer break. The King, 76, is continuing to receive treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer and Camilla has repeatedly made comments about the challenge of getting him to slow down.
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