Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, celebrates her 75th birthday today, July 17. To mark her personal milestone, Clarence House released a new portrait of her to celebrate the occasion. While The Royal Family's social media account released the other photo to greet her with a happy birthday.
In the photos taken by Chris Jackson at her home in Raymill, Wiltshire, last month, the Duchess of Cornwall appears in a summer fashion of blue floral dress from Sophie Dundas.
In the latest photos by Chris Jackson, Camilla is seen relaxing in her garden with a bowl of peaches believed to be homegrowns in her Wiltshire garden, just a few miles from Highgrove.
While the other two photos showed her sitting in a red wood hugging one of her adopted Jack Russell Terriers from Battersea, Bluebell.
Recently, she guest-edited the special anniversary edition of Country Life Magazine, gracing the cover of the magazine's July issue. She also tapped the Duchess of Cambridge to do the photoshoot.
Asked how she commissioned Kate to do the job, Camilla said, "Oh, I'd quite like Catherine to do it,"Â revealed by Mark Hedges, editor-in-chief of Country Life Magazine.
And he was surprised who is Catherine.
"I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brains trying to think of a professional photographer called Catherine. Then suddenly I grasped what she meant — one of the most amazing things that could happen. I found it one of the easier things to nod my head at."
The Duchess of Cornwall praised Kate's photography skills in an ITV documentary that aired this week. "She did very good pictures, and she does it sort of naturally. We had a lot of fun doing it," the Duchess of Cornwall explained.Â
"It was very relaxed and, of course, very kind of the Duchess of Cambridge. She came with her camera and she's an extremely good photographer. And it was all very casual — there wasn't much hair and make-up. It was just done in the garden with a lot of laughs — it was a lovely way of doing it."
The Duchess of Cornwall also shared that one particular photo had the seal of approval from Prince Charles — pointing to the final cover image, which shows her seated on a bench with a basket filled with pelargoniums.
When asked if she was happy with the final product, Camilla replied, "If I can get over the fact I'm looking at myself, I think that they're very nice and I think they're just what's needed for Country Life."
Before her birthday, the Duchess of Cornwall attended several public events, including a special lunch hosted by Gyles Brandreth and The Oldie Magazine.Â
The lunch was meant to salute remarkable people who are continuing to serve, contribute, and achieve in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. Attendees of the said lunch meeting included authors, actors, entertainers, scientists, sports personalities, poets, and philanthropists.Â
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On July 14, 2022, The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a special reception to celebrate Battersea's 160th anniversary.  Camilla and Prince Charles two Jack Russell Terriers, Bluebell and Beth, are rescue dogs they adopted from Battersea. |
Personal Background
She was born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947, at King's College Hospital, London. She grew up in The Laines, an 18th-century country house in Plumpton, East Sussex. Her family's second home was a three-story house in South Kensington
Her father was Major Bruce Shand, a British Army officer-turned-businessman. Her mother was Rosalind Cubitt, the daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe.Â
She has a younger sister, Annabel Elliot, and a younger brother, Mark Shand. Alice Keppel, her maternal great-grandmother, was the known mistress of King Edward VII, the maternal great-great-grandfather of Prince Charles.Â
She met Prince Charles in the early 70s but Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Earl of Burma, Prince Charles' honorary grandfather, and maternal uncle of Prince Philip, was said to have opposed the relationship due to Camilla's commoner status.
In 1973, she married British Army officer, Andrew Parker Bowles, with whom she has two children. And Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981, the mother of his two sons, William and Harry.
Camilla and Andrew divorced in 1995, while the Prince and Princess of Wales divorced in 1996. She married the Prince of Wales 10 years later, in April 2005, in a civil ceremony held at the Guildhall in Windsor Castle, followed by a televised Anglican blessing at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
And the rest is history.
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