What a great birthday portrait! Camilla looks relaxed and radiant as she poses in front of some homegrown fruit to celebrate her 75th birthday
- The Duchess of Cornwall posed at her country home, Ray Mill House, in Wiltshire
- She wore a blue floral dress by designer Sophie Dundas for the birthday photo
- Camilla will celebrate with a small family dinner hosted by Prince Charles
That Duchess of Cornwall celebrates her 75th birthday with this peach of an official portrait.
Looking relaxed and radiant, she was photographed at her country home, Ray Mill House, in Wiltshire last month.
The portrait shows Camilla, wearing a blue floral dress by designer Sophie Dundas, enjoying a cup of tea in her garden behind a bowl of homegrown peaches.
The Duchess is celebrating her milestone birthday tonight with a small family dinner hosted by the Prince of Wales at his home in Highgrove, Gloucestershire.
Everything is peachy: The Duchess of Cornwall looked radiant as she posed behind a bowl of homegrown white peaches ahead of her 75th birthday this weekend
Their daughter Laura Lopes and son Tom Parker Bowles are expected to be in attendance, along with their younger sister Annabel Elliot, who appeared in an ITV documentary that followed Camilla as she guest-edited the latest edition of Country Life.
Mr Parker Bowles, columnist for The Mail on Sunday and acclaimed food writer, has written an article for the magazine praising peaches, the key ingredient in one of his mother’s favorite desserts, peach melba.
“My mother is an avid white peach grower (this month’s column topic was very much her idea) and they certainly don’t want attention,” he wrote.
Camilla bought her six-bedroom property with extensive gardens, 17 miles from the Prince of Wales’s Highgrove home, following her divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles in 1995.
A spokesman for Clarence House, which released the picture, said of the birthday party: “She’s going to have a little family dinner.”
Camilla bought the Ray Mill House in Wiltshire, 17 miles from Prince Charles Highgrove, following her divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles in 1995
The milestone comes during a period of change for the monarchy, with the future Queen Consort speaking in last week’s documentary about “exciting new prospects” ahead as her position in the royal family grows in importance.
In an interview with the Daily Mail yesterday, the Duchess joked: “We don’t really want to talk about birthdays, do we? Unfortunately, I can never lie about my age as it’s always mentioned in a newspaper, so I just have to get on with it.
Camilla, pictured earlier this week, has spoken about “exciting new prospects” as her position in the royal family increases in importance
Paying tribute to her family, including her five grandchildren, she revealed she used a social media chat app called Houseparty to keep in touch with them during lockdown when they were in Scotland and she was in England.
“I’m not sure if she [her grandchildren] I feel cool at 75,” she added. “But we have a very close relationship and they keep me in touch with the world of youth – and TikTok.
