Queen Camilla’s birthday is coming up next week – she’ll be 77 years old on July 17th. She’s a Cancer, the same as Princess Diana and Prince William. Like many older folks, Camilla is obsessed with weather-watching. All of the seniors I know love the Weather Channel and they can watch it all day. There are also so many weather apps and ways to track the weather online (I’m a big fan of weather.com and I honestly check it multiple times a day). Well, apparently Camilla has several weather apps and she checks them constantly.

The Queen gets teased about her “obsession” with weather apps, a children’s writer has revealed. Francesca Simon, the bestselling Horrid Henry series author, attended a charity event with Queen Camilla during a downpour on Tuesday, when the pair discussed the miserable July weather.

The event, to mark the National Literacy Trust’s 30th anniversary, was originally to take place in the gardens of Clarence House but was rearranged for inside the building after the day turned wet in London.

Simon revealed that she shared a joke with the Queen about their climate app habits during the event, saying: “We were laughing about our mutual love of weather apps. She mentioned it was raining in France, where I’m meant to be today, and I said, ‘Yeah, I know’. She said everybody teases her, because I’m also looking at weather in various parts of the world, and she’s the same – so we were laughing at our mutual obsession.”

[From The Telegraph]

I’ll criticize Camilla for a lot of things, but this is a cute story to me. I always like these regular-person stories about her – I remember Camilla giving interviews for her 75th birthday and she talked about how she plays online word games with her granddaughters and texts her grandkids almost every day. The idea that Camilla is always on her phone, playing Words With Friends and constantly checking her weather apps is just a humanizing narrative.

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