Future Queen consort Camilla beams in regal new portrait marking 75th birthday
17.07.2022 - 00:29
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An official portrait of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has been released to mark her 75th birthday. Camilla, who recently celebrated 160 years of Battersea Dogs and Cats home with Amanda Holden, can be seen looking looking relaxed and smiling in the image released for her milestone anniversary, which she is set to celebrate on Sunday 17 July.
In the photograph, the future Queen Consort wears a stunning blue floral dress by Sophie Dundas and can be seen sitting at a garden table with flowers and plants in the background. A tea cup and saucer sits before her alongside a bowl of peaches in the snap.
Camilla, who recently praised her daughter in law Kate Middleton for her special talent, guest edited the latest edition of Country Life magazine and her son, food writer Tom Parker Bowles, who penned a paean to the fruit – the essential ingredient in one of his mother’s favourite desserts peach melba. Mr Parker Bowles writes: “My mother is a keen grower of white peaches (the subject of this month’s column was very much her idea) and they certainly don’t want for attention.” The picture was taken last month in the gardens of Raymill, Camilla’s retreat in Lacock, Wiltshire, where the photographed peaches were grown.
She bought the six-bedroom property, 17 miles from the Prince of Wales’ Highgrove home, after her divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles in the mid 1990s. Clarence House has confirmed that Camilla will be celebrating the milestone with a small family dinner, which will most likely be hosted by her husband Prince Charles, 73, at Highgrove.
Camilla’s daughter Laura Lopes and son are expected along with her younger sister Annabel Elliot. Earlier this year, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II used her Plaitnum Jubilee speech to back
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