King Charles III Releases 1st Christmas Card as Monarch With Queen Consort Camilla Featuring Photo From Before Ascension
usmagazine.comKing Charles III is sending his first Christmas cards as monarch with a photo taken days before he took the throne.The picture of the sovereign, 74, and Queen Consort Camilla was taken at the Braemar Games in Scotland by photographer Samir Hussein on September 3.
Charles is in focus, wearing a tweed jacket and vest with a red, green and gold-striped tie. Camilla, 75, smiles at him while wearing a green coat with a red tartan lapel.The photo is a close up, so recipients don’t get to enjoy the monarch’s green tartan kilt, which he accessorized with red knee-high socks and black shoes.“Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year,” the festive greeting card reads.The fun Scottish outing, which they attended with Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence, took place just five days before Charles became king.
He ascended immediately when his mother Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8. She was 96.“I pay tribute to my Mother’s memory and I honor her life of service.
I know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you, and I share that sense of loss, beyond measure, with you all,” Charles said in his first speech as sovereign on September 9.He continued, “As the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the Constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.
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