First official portrait of Carlos III and Camilla: Buckingham boasts of new kings

It is the golden brooch to the coronation splendors of Charles III y Camilla, which took place last weekend in London: four official portraits that go directly into the history of European monarchies. The author is the French photographer Hugo Burnand, the same one who immortalized the wedding of the new kings.

Buckingham Palace has shared the solemn portraits through social networks. In the first of them, Carlos III is dressed in his royal purple tunic and the Mantle of State topped with ermine fur and poses with the Orb and the Scepter with the Cross. On a throne upholstered in red and trimmed in gold, he proudly displays his imperial state crown.

Camilla, however, poses standing in Buckingham’s throne room, wearing the crown of Queen Mary of Teck, which her husband’s great-grandmother wore for her coronation in 1911. On her shoulders also the purple mantle and the precious dress that she wore on coronation day, created by Bruce Oldfield and full of symbolic gold thread embroidery: a rose, a thistle, a daffodil and a shamrock, the flowers of the four nations of the United Kingdom and the two dogs she has adopted with Carlos III.

Finally, the couple pose together and also in a group, surrounded by their trusted people: the Princes of Wales (and future kings), Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence, and the Dukes of Edinburgh, Edward and Sophie. Also at his side are the Dukes of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent and Alexandra of Kent.