Here are some (ghastly) photos of King Charles and the Queen Consort in Poundbury on Tuesday. It still cracks me up, in an admittedly juvenile way, that Charles created this walkable town and he decided to name it “Poundbury.” Not Poundtown, not Poundshire, but still, I giggle. Anyway, Camilla looked half in the bag in most of these photos and they should really begin to phase in some events for Camilla where she just gets to be seated the whole time. Cam and Chuck were in Poundtown to view/unveil a new bust/statue of Prince Philip.
Meanwhile, did you know that Tatler Magazine finally revealed their Social Power Index for 2023? We were all waiting for it with bated breath! According to Tatler, Charles and Camilla are the very top of the British social-power pyramid. Prince William and Kate didn’t even make the top ten!!
The King and Queen have topped Tatler’s Social Power Index for 2023. Charles and Camilla secured the number one spot in the annual list described by the society bible as a “report into where the real power lies in British society” after also coming top last year. The royal couple are joined on the list by the King’s equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson, who is ranked at number three.
Hugh Grosvenor, the seventh Duke of Westminster, appears on the list at number six alongside Olivia Henson to whom he became engaged earlier this year. Prince George’s godfather, one of the UK’s richest men, took over his family’s billion-pound fortune and estate when his father, Gerald, died in 2016 after having a heart attack while walking on his Abbeystead Estate.
The Tatler index also features a host of “It Girls”, football stars, philanthropists and fashion designers. The magazine said other notable entries in the full list include the Prince and Princess of Wales, footballer Marcus Rashford, couples Eddie and Hannah Redmayne, Rita Ora and Taika Waititi, and Emily Maitlis and Mark Gwynne. Here is the top 10:
1. King Charles III and Queen Camilla
2. Sanjay and Anu Hinduja
3. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson
4. Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa
5. Charlotte Tilbury and George Waud
6. The Duke of Westminster and Olivia Henson
7. Richard and Patricia Caring
8. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
9. Jemma, Countess of Mornington, and Arpad Busson
10. Isabella Weatherby
Not only am I powerless, I am unaware of who has the most social clout in the UK, because I don’t know who many of those people are. I just think it’s funny that Buttons and Pegwards didn’t make the top ten, although it does seem that they’re somewhere on the list. Not everyone can get the cover of Time Magazine’s Most Influential issue.
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive for their visit at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785622444, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive for their visit at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785622450, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III waves as he and Queen Camilla arrive for their visit at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785622468, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla pose at the bronze bust of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as they visit Poundbury at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785622817, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Queen Camilla smiles during a visit at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785622938, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III reacts after children from local Damers First School performed their Coronation song as they visit Poundbury at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785623134, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla meet children from local Damers First School who performed their Coronation song as they visit Poundbury at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785623148, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- King Charles III and Queen Camilla during a visit at Poundbury on June 27, 2023 in Dorchester, Dorset. The King and Queen are visiting the The Duchy of Cornwall’s Poundbury development to view a new bronze relief and to open The Duke of Edinburgh Garden. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 785623168, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
Where does rose hanbury and her husband hit on the list?
That question popped in my head while reading the article.
How disappointing!!
The Monarch and his wife should be considered above this type of list. The status conferred by birth should be enough.
They seem to be terribly middle-class like the Middletons…
This!
I feel like I’ve taken crazy pills, I mean You’re. The. Monarch. Everyone should be jostling beneath you ‘because reasons’…
Yes, I agree that they probably should be above this kind of list, but they’ve aggressively courted the people who write and publish these types of lists — and worse. They’ve been happy to push their own popularity — whatever popularity means — and deliberately denigrated others in the process. Given all of that, it’s really to late to argue that Charles’s status conveyed by his birth and Camilla’s conveyed by her marriage should somehow be “above” the kind of attention that they’ve been working with for decades.
Social power as in when they invite people over no-one will decline or everyone in the ‘in’ crowd will be wearing house coat style dresses and stagger around smelling of gin in the coming social season?
Based on the titles of the names on that list this is a competition to be the biggest fish in a small but stagnant pond.
How glad I am to be common.
Right! It’s 2023, and a woman makes the top ten list by being engaged to a duke, not by her own merits according to this. My first thought was this sounds like a remnant from the 19th century.
Stagnant pond indeed.
Wow! Forget birth order & class systems. It’s now all about where you are on a power lists & awards you’re given because of the Sussexes.
Lol yea Chuck & the Co-hoe are leading the way in social power & influence.
I actually think it’s good that Equerry Lt. Col Jonathan Thompson is on this list, because his character was a bright spot in the whole boring coronation debacle. He and the KC/C are the only names I recognize.
Same! Although I know little of his character, I was hoping for a few nice pictures accompanying this post…. (Demure blush)
Looks like someone on Tatler is looking to be on the King and mistress team. I wonder if they got paid for this or if they are looking for a payout to have put them first…
They couldn’t even get any A Listers from GB to perform at their coming out party. This list is just toilet paper on C&Cs butt
This shows how pathetic this is
There are plenty of more influential people, even within the “Royal enclosure” this just reeks of class distinction, and I wonder just how much attention people pay to this dross. And would someone please start telling the king and his surrogate mother how to bloomin dress
Awwwwww. Since the coronation is out of the way Camilla has been working to make herself “a force”. We saw it in earnest at royal ascot 2023. The dior run-up, feeding Susan hussey up to the press, and talking about harry/megan. All done for press.
Another thing to note is Philip didn’t poise with Camilla in real life. Now she gets to pretend with his bust. I think the bust doesn’t even look like him but that doesn’t matter. If the bust did look like him it would tell her to scram.
Interesting that Arpad Busson ( Elle MacPherson ex) makes top ten even though he never married any of the girlfriends. Thought his hedge fund lost big.
Tatler is very much a “society” magazine, they are all about the aristocracy and titles. And I really don’t think they’re fans of W+K, going by their past coverage, which is interesting in itself.
According to Tatler, aristos have the most social power in the UK. Not great but this is the basis of British society.
Well, he certainly has the most stolen money in England. Does that translate into social power because the people don’t try to take it back?
Interesting that WanK weren’t number 2. If the Monarch is at the top of the social power structure, shouldn’t the fk be the second?
I wonder if we’ll ever know what number WanK are? Here’s a question: Would Wails bring Fails down in the rankings? Just wandering.
Is the monarch always (automatically) at the top of this list? And what happened to Philip’s shoulders?