King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla have unveiled their Christmas card featuring a photo of the couple taken just days before the late Queen Elizabeth's death in September
King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla have chosen a photograph taken at a Highland Gathering for their Christmas card this year. Buckingham Palace has now released the picture selected for the couple’s first Christmas card since Charles ascended to the throne.
The image, taken by award-winning photographer Sam Hussein, shows Charles and Camilla attending the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering earlier this year, which was said to have been one the late Queen's favourite events. The Queen had attended this event every year throughout her record-breaking 70 year reign, only missing the one that occurred just days before her death this September. The photo captures the King from a side profile, dressed in a tweed suit with a red, green and beige tie. Meanwhile, Camilla is wearing a green suit and matching hat with a pheasant motif, and pearl earrings. The photo was taken on 3 September – just days before the Queen’s death on September 8, when Charles was still the Prince of Wales. During the event, Charles officially opened a new structure celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee as he joined spectators at The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park for the annual Highland Games event.Crowds from across the globe joined him and the then Duchess of Cornwall to watch competitors take part in events such as the caber toss, hammer throw and tug-of-war, as well as to celebrate some longstanding Scottish traditions, dance and music. Camilla and the Princess Royal were presented with heather posies by 10 year old Chloe Guy and 12 year old Cassie Stewart, who are both members of the Braemar Royal Highland Society’s dancing class, before the Games got under way. Queen Consort Camilla appeared to take a sprig of flowers and put it in her buttonhole, which can be seen in the Christmas card photograph. It comes after the Royal Collection Trust shared a recently unearthed photo of Queen Elizabeth's first Christmas at Sandringham in 1952, where she is spotted doing her first of many Christmas speeches. The image shows the late monarch sitting at a desk in front of a microphone, holding a page to read from. According to the Royal Collection Trust, the Queen spoke about the importance of family, both at home and in terms of the family of Commonwealth nations in what she described as “that immense union of nations.”
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