Camilla Parker Bowles arrives at the Rifles Awards party. (London, November 30, 2023) Jones Victoria / Jones Victoria / PA Photos / ABACA
On November 30 in London, the queen wore a piece that she stole from her husband’s wardrobe. This is a jacket that King Charles has owned for over twenty-five years.
Camilla Parker Bowles took a jacket from her husband. Awakened in this way, the images that spring to people’s minds are rather images of the Queen Consort wearing the Barbour parka she stole from the King on the Sandrigham hunt, or the smoking jacket that Charles III would have. put it on the woman’s shoulders to keep her from getting cold in her ball gown. Well it’s not quite. She was the queen in a long, rather unusual coat for the Riflemen’s Awards Evening, a ceremony to recognize merit in one of the main regiments of the British infantry, which she attended as colonel-in-chief. the husband is introduced.
This is the last appearance of the coat belonging to Charles III. (London, November 30, 2023) Jones Victoria / Jones Victoria / PA Photos / ABACA
It’s a midnight blue dress with gold embroidery that King Charles III received as a gift during a trip to Saudi Arabia in 1998. This traditional Saudi piece is (hence) the name. daklha a long dress open in the front and worn traditionally tob long garment, reaching to the ankles, men. It was given to him by designer Yahya Al Bishri (pictured right below). The man, who was still a prince at the time, therefore kept it carefully, and now it is regularly borrowed by his second wife.
A few other times
Camilla Parker Bowles has indeed worn this traditional outfit more than once. In 2008, three years after her first marriage to Charles III. The Duchess of Cornwall wears the coat over an opaline dress with a three strand pearl necklace. After breaking his fibula while hiking in Scotland in 2010, he arrived at Windsor Castle for a military ceremony. Therefore, he wears the famous coat with a black dress and… crutches. To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee in June 2022, she stands behind her husband, still wearing his coat, when he gives a speech.
Camilla Parker-Bowles wears Charles III’s Saudi jacket during the Western Sunset ceremony at Royal Air Force Base Cranwell. (Lincolnshire, April 10, 2008) PA Photos / PA Photos / ABACA
Camilla Parker-Bowles wears Charles III’s Saudi jacket at the Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace. (London, June 4, 2022) JONATHAN BUCKMASTER / AFP
Camilla Parker-Bowles wears Charles III’s Saudi jacket at Windsor Castle. (Berkshire, May 13, 2010). Parsons Steve / Parsons Steve / PA Wire / ABACA
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Source: Le Figaro
