Here are some photos of King Charles and Queen Camilla today in Germany, their first state visit as monarchs. Last night was the big, glitzy state dinner, and I only just saw the menu for the dinner so I need to share it: their German hosts served a first course of marinated carp with spring cress and “a broth made from Heck cattle, a distinctively German breed developed in the 1920s as an effort to bring back the extinct aurochs.” The main course was “free-range chicken with mushrooms and spinach tart, accompanied by German wines.” Dessert was a baked plum pudding “served in black tea from East Frisia and garnished with Sandgebäck, a crumbly German biscuit variety half-covered with chocolate. It will be washed down with dessert wine from the Ahr valley in southwest Germany.” I’m a little bit obsessed with this menu? Like, German food actually sounds really good?
Meanwhile, Charles is being criticized for flirting with “politics.” While I find much of Charles’s behavior despicable, I kind of feel like people scream “that’s too political” at him over stuff which is not all that scandalous or notable. Like, his environmentalism is barely political. He’s actually there explicitly to improve Britain’s relations with Europe post-Brexit. As in, that’s what the Sunak government wants from the king, and that’s what the EU wants too. Politico even noted that Charles praised Germany for hosting Ukrainian refugees, like that too is a massively political act? I swear it’s not. Charles is addressing the German parliament today (the Bundestag) and we’ll cover it if he suddenly calls Vladimir Putin a short, ugly murderer or something.
Camilla really isn’t bringing us any exciting style. I wasn’t expecting her to, but her Oldfield gown last night was pretty dowdy and so is this coat. Also: one of my favorite genre of “Charles photos” is where he’s examining food. That man loves to look at fruits and vegetables.
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- Berlin, GERMANY – King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla during a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, on the first state visit as King and Queen Consort to Germany. Pictured: King Charles BACKGRID USA 30 MARCH 2023 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Berlin, GERMANY – King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla during a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, on the first state visit as King and Queen Consort to Germany. Pictured: King Charles BACKGRID USA 30 MARCH 2023 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Berlin, GERMANY – Britain’s King Charles III and Britain’s Camilla, Queen Consort visit a food market on Wittenbergplatz in Berlin, Germany. The King and The Queen Consort’s first state visit to Germany is taking place in Berlin, Brandenburg and Hamburg from Wednesday, March 29th, to Friday, March 31st, 2023. The King and Queen Consort’s state visit to France, which was scheduled for March 26th – 29th, has been postponed due to ongoing mass strikes and protests. Pictured: King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla BACKGRID USA 30 MARCH 2023 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Berlin, GERMANY – King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort are welcomed by Baerbel Bas, President of German Bundestag, as they arrive at the German Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. The King and The Queen Consort’s first state visit to Germany is taking place in Berlin, Brandenburg and Hamburg from Wednesday, March 29th, to Friday, March 31st, 2023. The King and Queen Consort’s state visit to France, which was scheduled for March 26th – 29th, has been postponed due to ongoing mass strikes and protests. Pictured: King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla, Baerbel Bas BACKGRID USA 30 MARCH 2023 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Berlin, GERMANY – Britain’s King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, sign the guest book during their visit to the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The King and The Queen Consort’s first state visit to Germany is taking place in Berlin, Brandenburg and Hamburg from Wednesday, March 29th, to Friday, March 31st, 2023. The King and Queen Consort’s state visit to France, which was scheduled for March 26th – 29th, has been postponed due to ongoing mass strikes and protests. Pictured: King Charles III, Camilla, Queen Consort BACKGRID USA 30 MARCH 2023 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
I think he wants to be political and King doesn’t give him that right. Yess he does love looking at the fruit and vegetables I think because he really likes gardening. Really gardening not gardening like his heir.
I don’t think it’s exactly that he wants to be political, I think he’s just the type of guy who is very sure of his opinions being the right ones and wants to tell everyone so they know how smart he is. I’m sure he’ll talk forever about gardening, and that’s fine until he gets into sustainable farming and suddenly it’s too political.
Although Charles has deep flaws, l do find him appealing as he is in alignment with many of my interests such architecture and the environment. The Princes Trust has done wonderful work too.
This trip has been a good one for Charlie, he looked happy that all the attention was on him. Reading his speeches in German and English he was, as usual, eloquent and stylish, he never fails to miss the mark as his speech delivery is always excellent.
Camilla looked tired, no way could she overshadow him, as she lacks star power, so that suits him perfectly.
Have we talked about how the moment he became king he started wearing makeup?
Ermagard… You think so? He does look less pasty. But his hands match the face, unlike a certain American orange…
His foundation ran into his eyebrows. His brows need trimming lest he veer further into Ernest Borgnine/Buddy Epson brows.
He’s getting his father’s eyebrows, but a little early. Philip’s brows didn’t go wacko until much later in life.
Really? I’ve never noticed but will need to scrutinise the photos more carefully now. Lol
@Lolab: No we haven’t but it’s true.
Yeah, it looks that way. Well-spotted. His hands look less red too. CPB must feel safe in his loyalty to her, she’s looks comfortable next to him whilst he holds a pen.
KFCIII really looks like a heavier-stouter of his father in the second picture
You’re right! He often has flushed red cheeks which could be down to rosacea? I have it myself but obviously dont know that’s the case with Charles. No judgement on the make up, I do the same!
I think it’s most likely rosacea because he gets it on his cheeks, the bridge of his nose, and his chin. It also causes a textural difference in skin where it happens.
I mentioned in another post that Bill Clinton is another famous sufferer, and that I noticed them applying makeup to him during HRC’s 2016 campaign. (And I wished they’d either wouldn’t have, or would’ve gone lighter on it, as he always looked really pale on the campaign trail.)
I have.
He should stop, to be honest. I’d rather see him with his usual rosacea than looking like a corpse.
They caked on the makeup for Bill Clinton during HRC’s 2016 campaign, too, and I was like, “Just let the dude have his red cheeks, please. I’m starting to get worried about him.”
I just can’t stand Chuck and Camilla. When I look at his boozy red face, I can’t stop thinking of how badly he treated Diana and dishonored her. He and Camilla are such scummy people.
Since we’re talking about his appearance; his eyebrows haven’t been cut for a while. They look like they’re blowing in the wind and disturbing his eyesight in one of the photos.
Someone on twitter pointed out that he often looks (though not in these specific pics) like he’s been eating mashed up strawberries…his mouth is a creepy shade of blurry red-pink. I think he often looks, appropriately, like a vampire.
Yeah, there was a photo of him last night where it looked like his lipstick was crooked. And I don’t know what’s up with the pancake makeup, either. I understand his need for it, but I don’t understand why it has to look so bad and obvious.
Charlie has always meddled in politics, who can forget his “black spider”, ie his hand written letters to the government of the day. He is to thick to realise that Sunak is playing him like an old fossilised piano the “Windsor agreement”!!? And as for Charlie looking at vegetables? Was he looking for a relative?P. S Charlie, hate to burst your bubble,, but there were several letters in the press today saying to Harry “go get them and take them ALL down” the anti Royal family momentum is building
They’ve all meddled in politics when it’s suited them.
That’s why they don’t pay any taxes, and that’s how all of their properties–even the ones they privately own–are magically exempt from any of the “green energy” laws that somehow managed to be passed during Blair’s time in office.
Free-range chicken and extinct cattle “washed down with” German wines…
Wonder how UK citizens making the Sophie’s Choice between food and heat will feel, reading that.
Chuckie Antoinette says, “let them eat joy! Joy for meeeeee!”
Charles will say whatever the UK government tells him to say. He may have some personal input into the contents of his speeches but he has to keep within the limits set by the policies of the government.
Oh, Charles will do that, but he’ll say something else behind closed doors and be caught saying it by numerous people, who’ll talk to the royal rota. And then he’ll have to send someone else down the river because he messed up.
That’s his M.O.
If he’d learn to keep his trap shut, like his mother did, he wouldn’t have to keep feeding his young to the vultures.
Any utterance from these adulterers mean absolutely nothing to me. The way they both have treated Harry and Harry’s family is detestable. May they both reap what they sow in the worst possible way. I can not imagine playing nice with these two, they have no decency.
I can almost taste that food, we do know how to cook! Do we have a bad food rep around the world? Please tell me that’s not true. And German wine is excellent.
In general I’m not sure anybody here cares that much about Chuck, the UK has left the building and we’re still miffed.
I don’t think Germany has a bad food rep. England, Ireland, Scotland… they have bad (or ‘meh’) food reps.
Germany has a rep for having foods that are savory, hearty, and good for the winter and fall but are somewhat limited.
Interesting. I do think the traditional German dishes might not be what I consider “summer foods” but I think that’s because our region of Europe used to not get long hot summers? When I think of my preferred summer dishes, it’s never something my grandmother would have made. My mom gravitated towards mediterranean food in summer, inspired by my Greek dad.
@Emmi
I can’t reply to your comment, directly, because of the thread length…
That may be some of it. And, frankly, as some of German descent who lives in PA now, I may not have a firm grasp on ALL German foods.
That being said, my trips to Germany were full of familiars. I didn’t even know what most of them should’ve been called until took a few trips to Germany, and I’m still a rube.
Home fries (fried potatoes) with red fish with onions and ? stock = “Hamburger Pannfisch.” (No real word for that here. It translates directly from the German to English into, “Potatoes, fish, and potatoes that my gran fried up for breakfast.”)
Sweet yeast rolls filled with minced meat, cabbage, and sweet onion = “Bierock.” (Again, no word for it in English.
I think that food item originated in Prussia. Had it originated in Germany, its name would’ve been more matter-of-fact, directly stating “I am a roll filled with meat, cabbage, and onion.”)
Et cetera.
I’m no genius of German cuisine. I’m just giving my insight into how people may feel about it.
I don’t think German food has a bad rep around the world, and, having lived in Germany, I go out of my way to tell people just how GOOD the food is. The quality is very high, and it’s delicious. Wish I could move back there today.
@Emmi, boy do you. My ex in laws were German and holy mother of gods my MIL could cook. Amazing food.
Germany’s got a pretty good food rep. Not as high as France’s or India’s, but still up there. The only country I know of with a bad food rep is England, actually.
German food can be very good–it’s savory and filling–but it gets old fast.
I don’t find anything that Charles said yesterday to be too political, but you know how the current political climate in the US and UK is. If you dare to question fascism, the right wing says you’re being “too political.” And Charles is now in thrall of the Tories.
Back in 2014, Charles compared Putin’s supposed reason for his first invasion of Ukraine (and, yes, that was his first invasion to Ukraine) to Hitler’s supposed reason for invading Poland while he was on a trip to Canada. I can’t remember if he did it loudly or behind closed doors, but he wasn’t wrong. Hitler and Putin both used the excuse that a foreign country was persecuting ethnic people of their respective countries, and said things like, “This area of Poland/Ukraine has X number of German/Russian speakers here and wants us to liberate them.”
Charles actually got a lot of crap for that in the world press, and got shaded by Putin a few months later.
I can’t imagine he’d make the same mistake again, although he’d be, y’know, on the *right* side of history if he did.
The wines from the Ahr Valley are not only very good, their being used is also a shoutout for the people in that region, as they had to deal with a devastating flood last year and are still suffering from the aftereffects.
Meanwhile not looking forward to have parts of my current hometown cordoned off tomorrow for security reasons.
The usually impeccably dressed Charles looks like he slept in that suit. Did the valet in charge of pressing his clothes get left behind?
Oh no! They gave him pens! 🫣
🤣 Not…pens!
Also his eyebrow valet is clearly on vacation.
ITA. I always used to think that Charles looked well turned out, but the last year or so he has not looked as good. His suits don’t seem to fit properly, and they don’t look well-made. I wonder what has changed.
I also agree. He’s been looking older for the last few years, but he was always turned out well. His suits were pressed and fitted. And his ties, shirts, and kerchiefs always matched in that aristocratic “I tried, but not *that* hard” sort of way. Now, it looks like he rolled out of bed, tossed on some clothes, and ran out of bed to get to a 9:00 am meeting.
His eyebrows are tragic. They look as if they haven’t been clipped in months.
I think he’s lost weight and that that the shape of his body has “shifted” a bit as a result, if that makes sense, but it’s not like he doesn’t have tailors to deal with that. And there’s no excuse for the eyebrows, especially since he’s wearing cake makeup.
Perhaps he’s losing his faculties.
Being mean takes it’s toll. 😏
I assume staff changed. He had someone very competent in charge of his physical appearance and that person is no longer doing the job.
Maybe he’s sharing Kate’s stylist to save money.
The only reason I like Camilla’s coat is because it doesn’t have those ridiculous shoulder pads they’ve been putting her in lately. She’s a slouch; we know she’s a slouch, her clothes are fitted to be comfortable AND to hide the slouch. There’s enough to dislike about her without adding shoulder pads big enough to make her look like a scrawny linebacker.
Who said you can’t turn heaux into a housewife when this became a whole ass queen? Princess Diana would have been so beautiful and regal as the queen. Sigh….
I notice they have the pen situation sorted. 😏
Modern U.S. presidents don’t use fountain pens; they use ballpoints. New ones (likely tested, but new). And if anyone needs to sign after them, they get their own pen.
Everyone gets to keep the pen that signed the order.
I prefer gel pens, myself, but now I understand why they don’t use fountain pens.
(Not that anyone but, say, Trump would’ve thrown a fit over a pen not working…)
Is that his right eyebrow flowing in the close up pic? If it is someone needs to trim it!
Yes! my first thought was that his old man eyebrows are RED, then I thought “gee his old man eyebrows look like Phillip’s old man eyebrows”, and then I thought “I would go insane with that eyebrow obscuring my vision like that”
Surely with all of the servants, there is a royal eyebrow trimmer! LOL I would go insane too, if that was on my face! They are just frumpy!
I know its petty and pointless but I’m puzzled by the coats.
They are on a TWO DAY trip. How many coats do you need for two days?
And where is her tiara? How will anyone know she’s the queen without a mound of diamonds (all with old, ugly settings?). Diamonds are a waste on her. Rubbish is still rubbish even if its in a new bin. Less coats more diamonds.
This your king?
Ink stain (or food) on his jacket
Gouty hands and fingers
Concealer and pancake on the face.
Meanwhile his son is slaying it in his Dior suit.
LOL, good eye, Maisie. I hope it’s an ink stain. I hope pens around the globe are launching a silent resistance.
Well, german food is great, as german wine! “Washed away ith german wine” really hurts… I think Charles III was not too political, I had the pleasure to listen/watch his complete speech, and it was mostly praising the friendship between UK and Germany, supporting Ukraine and their supporters… and so on. Nothing controversial or offending.
WOW he looks so much like his father in these pictures!
Thank you for this article, it shows how near impossible to have evidenced-based speech by anyone much less King Charles111.
In this new climate ( pun intended) it has become Whatever ‘political’ means? it is not as if he calling on reform…….
* calling for reform…
I know this is the wrong thing to focus on but when I hear about Heck cattle, all I can think about is how they were a Nazi experiment to bring back Aurochs and stories about how Heck cattle are very aggressive and wreaked havoc on farms. I thought they were only found in zoos now, I had no idea someone was still breeding them for food.
If they can’t do anything even the tiniest bit political, then they can’t do anything. Abolish the monarchy.
I think his positions on the environment, refugee issues and charities have been spot on, however his personal life has been quite dodgy.
Virgil, well as King he can’t really speak to those things now. I don’t remember hearing anything from him when the newer generations of Windrush were hustled out of the country. If he really wanted to say something, that would have been a good start.