An official image has been released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Duchess of Cornwall.
Camilla appears with a relaxed, smiling look in the image posted for her landmark birthday celebration on Sunday, which follows an intense week for the royal.
In the picture, the future queen consort sits at a garden table with flowers and plants in the background and a cup of tea and a plate in front of her and a bowl of peaches.
The Duchess has edited as a guest the latest issue of Country Life magazine and her son, food writer Tom Parker Bowles, has paid tribute to the fruit, the essential ingredient in one of the country’s favorite desserts. his mother, the peach melba.
The portrait of the 75th anniversary of HRH Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Photography: Clarence House / Getty Images
Parker Bowles writes, “My mom is a big white peach grower (the topic of this month’s column was very much her idea) and they certainly don’t want to draw attention.”
The photo was taken last month at Raymill Gardens, Camilla’s refuge in Lacock, Wiltshire, where the peaches photographed were grown.
He bought the six-bedroom property, 17 miles from the Prince of Wales’ Highgrove House, following his divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles in the mid-1990s.
The Duchess is wearing a blue floral dress by Sophie Dundas in the photograph taken by Getty Images.
Her 75th birthday will be celebrated Sunday with a small family dinner, Clarence House said.
Charles is likely to host the evening meeting and guests are likely to sigh at Highgrove.
Camilla’s daughter, Laura Lopes, and son are expected, as well as the Duchess’s younger sister, Annabel Elliot, who appeared in an ITV documentary following Camilla as she took the reins of the magazine.
The show, which aired this week, revealed that Camilla buried the beloved teddy bear of a young Annabel, known as Tiddy Bar, on the grounds of her grandparents ’house and only confessed years later.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, the Duchess revealed that she has embraced the world of TikTok social media thanks to her grandchildren, while Charles reads to young people and puts on all the voices.
Camilla laments that family meals are a thing of the past, and now everyone is on “their devices”.
Speaking to the newspaper, the duchess said: “Families no longer sit down, do they, and have dinner?
“Because I’m old, we used to all sit down (to eat). Now everyone is on their devices. It makes me pretty angry. “