Sophie marks 60th birthday with new portrait

A caller representation of the Duchess of Edinburgh has been released to observe her 60th birthday.

In the picture, taken by London-based manner lensman Christina Ebenezer earlier this month, Sophie looks relaxed and blessed arsenic she perches successful a model spot astatine her Surrey home.

Buckingham Palace said Sophie was funny successful Ebenezer's benignant of photography and to enactment a rising pistillate photographer.

She volition people her day connected Monday privately astatine location with the Duke of Edinburgh.

The photo, taken astatine Bagshot Park, shows the duchess wearing a achromatic turtleneck jumper and a pleated pick skirt.

Sophie's nationalist illustration has grown successful caller years, having been hailed arsenic a dependable fig successful a slimmed-down moving monarchy pursuing the departures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Prince Andrew, arsenic good arsenic the King and Princess of Wales's wellness troubles.

She became the archetypal subordinate of the royal household to sojourn Ukraine since the opening of the Russian invasion, travelling to Kyiv to conscionable President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska past April.

They discussed however to enactment survivors of conflict-related intersexual violence.

The Palace said that arsenic the duchess turns 60, she has a renewed consciousness of committedness to her sex equality enactment and looked guardant to further championing the contented successful the future.

Ebenezer, calved successful Lagos, Nigeria, earlier moving to London astatine the property of four, has antecedently been recognised arsenic a Forbes 30 Under 30 arts and civilization person and a British Fashion Council New Wave Creative.

Two of her portraits - of British actresses Michaela Coel and Letitia Wright - were unveiled astatine the National Portrait Gallery past year.