Charles releases first Christmas card as king - Daily Mail

The King has released his archetypal Christmas paper arsenic monarch, choosing a photograph taken of himself and the Queen Consort astatine a Highland Gathering conscionable days earlier the Queen died.

On Sunday, the Palace released the image, taken by award-winning lensman Sam Hussein, selected for the historical seasonal card.

The photograph shows Charles, 74, and Camilla, 75, smiling astatine the Braemar Royal Highland Gathering connected September 3rd, 5 days earlier the Queen died connected September 8th.

It captures the King from a broadside profile, dressed successful a tweed suit with a red, greenish and beige tie.

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Meanwhile, Camilla is seen wearing a greenish suit and matching chapeau with a pheasant motif, and pearl earrings.

During the event, Charles officially opened a caller operation celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee arsenic helium joined spectators astatine The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park for the yearly Highland Games event. The Queen was not successful attendance owed to her declining health.

Charles chopped a heather enactment to people the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Archway.

Crowds from crossed the globe joined him and the past Duchess of Cornwall to ticker competitors instrumentality portion successful events specified arsenic the caber toss, hammer propulsion and tug-of-war, arsenic good arsenic to observe immoderate longstanding Scottish traditions, creation 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 some members of the Braemar Royal Highland Society’s dancing class, earlier the Games got nether way.

Camilla appeared to instrumentality a sprig of flowers and enactment it successful her buttonhole, which tin beryllium seen successful the Christmas paper photograph.

Last week, the King and Queen Consort met Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney arsenic they paid a sojourn to the shot nine owned by the stars.

The Royals visited Wrexham AFC, which was bought by the actors successful 2021, connected Friday and met players and unit arsenic good arsenic the co-chairmen during a circuit of the Racecourse Ground.

Deadpool histrion Reynolds and McElhenney, who stars successful It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia, joked they had had etiquette lessons up of the visit.

Speaking to media up of their meeting, Reynolds said: 'I would accidental that we're impossibly excited to invited him to the Racecourse ground, this historical religion that resides successful the bosom of Wrexham and is the bosom of Wrexham.'

'Rob and I some said aboriginal on, and this holds existent and for the remainder of our lives, we volition bash thing to uplift and elevate this assemblage and this nine and having the King wage a sojourn is surely 1 mode to bash it. That's for sure. Very excited.'

The actors said they had not watched the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's arguable Netflix show, which aired the time earlier the visit.

McElhenney said: 'I've ne'er heard of it.'

The stars person chronicled their takeover of the nine successful documentary Welcome to Wrexham, which was being filmed erstwhile the King and Camilla visited.

It was apt a invited distraction pursuing the merchandise of Harry and Meghan's Netflix bid connected Thursday. 

A conjugation of governmental grandees, elder subject figures and respected historians urged the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to enactment distant from adjacent year’s Coronation pursuing the fallout from their incendiary series.

Amid a chorus of highly regarded voices calling connected Harry and Meghan to enactment astatine home, 1 erstwhile Cabinet Minister said the mates ‘categorically should not be’ astatine Westminster Abbey erstwhile Charles is crowned connected May 6.

The involution comes days aft the archetypal episodes of the bid included Harry’s claims of ‘unconscious bias’ regarding contention successful the

; an inflammatory statement of the precocious Queen’s beloved Commonwealth arsenic ‘Empire 2.0’; and Meghan’s ostentatious parody of a curtsey.

Former Conservative person Iain Duncan Smith told The Mail connected Sunday: ‘If they dislike the Royal Family truthful overmuch wherefore would they be the Coronation?’

Fellow Tory seasoned David Mellor echoed the sentiment, saying: ‘They shouldn’t travel to the Coronation. They categorically shouldn’t come.

‘They marque wealth retired of selling their household down the river. I deliberation it should beryllium made wide that the British radical bash not privation them there.’

He besides suggested that radical ‘would beryllium perfectly entitled to boo if the mates did crook up’, adding: ‘They are a bittersweet brace and determination is nary anticipation for them connected their existent course.’

Lady Antonia Fraser, the historiographer and author, added: ‘I anticipation they don’t travel due to the fact that I privation the King and Queen to beryllium the centre of attention. It worries maine that if they travel the cameras mightiness discarded clip connected them. They should enactment holding hands successful Hollywood.’

A canvass for The Mail connected Sunday contiguous reveals astir fractional the nationalist hold the mates should beryllium barred from the Coronation.

Also, doubly arsenic galore radical deliberation Prince Harry should beryllium excluded from the enactment of succession and beryllium stripped of his Duke Of Sussex title, compared to those who judge they should beryllium allowed to support their status.