Cliff Notes
- A photograph of Queen Camilla, taken at her Wiltshire home, has been released in celebration of her 78th birthday, showing her in a vibrant turquoise dress.
- This year, Camilla is spending her birthday privately, contrasting with last year when she attended the state opening of Parliament.
- The Queen recently celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary, and she and King Charles continue to undertake engagements, including hosting French President Emmanuel Macron.
Photograph of Queen Camilla released to celebrate 78th birthday | UK News
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A photograph of the Queen has been released to celebrate her 78th birthday.
The picture of Camilla was taken earlier this month in front of a meadow at her Wiltshire home, Raymill.
It shows Her Majesty smiling in the sunshine, looking relaxed and leaning on a metal gate.
She is seen wearing a turquoise dress in a Liberty fabric printed with a rainforest of toucans, lemurs and monkeys.
Last year, Camilla was on duty on her birthday, attending the state opening of parliament at the King’s side.
This year, she is said to be spending the day privately.
At the start of April, she celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary, and she and the King have had a busy run of engagements.
They included hosting a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron last week ahead of the royal couple’s upcoming annual summer break in Scotland.
On Wednesday, the Queen was gifted a roll of clingfilm for her birthday in a special holder when she visited a nuclear-powered submarine in Plymouth. The wrapping was used to fix a defect in the main engines of HMS Astute.
“There’s nothing more useful, brilliant, how wonderful,” the Queen said about the present, which had a small plaque with the words “Clingflim keeping nuclear submarines at sea”.
In May, new portraits of the King and Queen, commissioned to commemorate their coronation in 2023, were unveiled.