Here are some photos of Queen Camilla on Thursday, at a reception to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. This is such a small thing, but I enjoy the fact that Camilla isn’t afraid of animal prints. She has several animal-print dresses and blouses and I like that she has no qualms about wearing them. QEII would never, she probably thought animal prints were tacky and gauche. Camilla’s like: tacky is my brand, give me the sheer leopard-print blouse!
The lighting at this event was doing her no favors, but obviously, Camilla has been sick for the past month, and she said this week that she was actually diagnosed with pneumonia. I still sort of believe that she initially had Covid and it turned into pneumonia – I believe that because of how squirrelly the courtiers have been for weeks about Camilla’s health and their refusal to actually identify what was wrong. This week, Camilla’s “friends” huffed to the Daily Beast that Camilla finds the job of queen consort “exhausting” and that expecting her to travel internationally is “too much to ask.” It will be really interesting to see if this changes Charles’s briefings about his plans to conduct several tours next year.
Meanwhile, Camilla’s son is making news this week. Tom Parker Bowles gave a speech at the Santa Rita Cigar Smoker of The Year Dinner and Awards in London. Piers Morgan won an award, because of course. Anyway, Tom told the attendees: “We are here at Boisdale celebrating not just the joys of cigars and wine, but the basic fundamental pleasure – of being together and making merry in the most civilized and open-minded surroundings. That’s surely something to be happy about. As for the ‘me, me, me’ moaners, the whiners, the bleaters, and the empty virtue-signalers and the eternally bloody offended – f— off!” I love how the whole extended Windsor-Parker-Bowles clan all claim to hate whiners and moaners, and yet they’re all constantly whining and moaning about their own problems and issues. Sympathy for me but not for thee.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Queen Camilla, during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla talking to guests during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla and Nikki Bradley, Director of Services at Women’s Aid, during an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid. Featuring: Queen Camilla and Nikki Bradley, Director of Services Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla attends an anniversary reception at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Aid Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: London, United Kingdom When: 05 Dec 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I suspect tom will get a title. Rather in bad taste for tom to talk about smoking cigars when his mother’s health was perhaps affected by her excessive smoking.
Said the whiner and moaner in his speech. Man these idiots just can’t hear how stupid they sound and to them I say f**k off!!
I’m surprised that his mother hasn’t managed to make him a lord of something already.
An award for smoking. In bad taste considering bad effects of smoking.
I’ve seen 90+ year olds with nicer skin. What does she cleanse with, sandpaper?
@Barbara
ITA! It crossed my mind that she looks worse than her late MIL did.
In fact, the Surgeon General should mandate images of Camilla on every pack of cigarettes. It would be extremely effective IMO. Queen Elizabeth Ii was famously a NON SMOKER.
I’m not sure if QEII ever smoked and I think Camilla smoked quite a bit (she might still.)
Princess Margaret wrecked her health by smoking
To be fair, QEII was born in 1926 amongst the most conservative of conservative social circles, and it wasn’t until the 1960s that people started to chill out with the whole ‘smoking is MENS work, women who smoke are HORRIBLE PEOPLE’ nonsense.
Admittedly, that was mainly because of tobacco companies deliberately using the feminist movement to try to open up the female market and boost sales, but still.
QEII not smoking was one of those rare circumstances where the low-key bigotry somehow managed to take 2+2 through a bizarre expedition through the Amazon and say that the healing crystals say the answer is 4.
I think she could sleep in vats of EGF serum and Augustine’s Bader Rich Cream, but that wouldn’t undo the effects of a lifetime of smoking, tanning (probably without any sunblock), and heavy drinking. She has the face she deserves.
This family (and the entire Royal family) is single-handedly proving Darwin might be wrong.
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GoldenMom, thank you for the morning laugh!!! LOL
Legit question: what about being a working member of the BRF is exhausting? They literally have someone to handle every daily task for them and all that is required is to show up somewhere for a couple hours every so often. Chat with people. Eat a dinner. Smile and wave goodbye.
What am I missing here?
The need to make themselves out to be victims – that’s what you’re missing! Seriously, these super privileged people must know deep down that they are worthless and that takes its toll. But they are essentially children so they don’t know that they just need to stop being so self-absorbed. Arrested development is very real among these people who never work and have everything given to them.
I think it’s the chatting to people part. Which is the job. But please, Camilla wants to sit in a room and flirt with Clarkson and Morgan and all the other “civilized people” who hate wokeness. She doesn’t want to chat to regular people on a regular basis. In front of cameras. It’s exhausting. But it’s the job. What ever happened to never complain never explain? Sheesh.
I guess it’s exhausting to have to chat with folks you have nothing in common with and couldn’t care less about.
His book is a big flop. Nobody is buying. Meanwhile, all access was given to him to write this royal cookery book.
Tom Parker-Bowles, the epitome of white male privilege, utterly untouchable now with Mummy in the catbird seat, looks around the room and says “Haaay dudes, let’s celebrate never having to give a shit about anyone or anything other than ourselves! Raise your very expensive glasses, smoke your expensive cigars and f*** everyone else that isn’t us! Hooray!”
What a loathsome creature he is…
Loathsome, petty, provincial, stupid, and useless. And let’s not forget incredibly unattractive.
Captured him perfectly in that description 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I’ll say one thing for her, you won’t ever see the media speculating that she’s had a face lift or gotten fillers.
Did his book not sell as well as Harry’s ?
I want to know if his cookbook sold as well as Together.
His book didn’t sell as well as either of those books otherwise it would have been in the Fail headlines for weeks.. it is a flop just like every other book these people publish.
Is going on and on about other people you call whiners, not whining, moaning and bleating yourself?
TPB’s whole “virtue signalers” comment reminds me of Gregg Wallace’s (Master Chef, that factory food program) comment on certain middle class women of a certain age. They feel incredibly safe in their echo chambers and hate life outside their bubble.
This is a cringe fest on so many levels.
Cigar award if the year? Are they cosplaying 60’s Mad Men? Pathetic.
The woman spent half a lifetime stepping over bodies, taking no hostages, pulling out the stops to become Queen – and now all she can do is whinge about it…!
Like Kate she’s in it for the kowtowing and sparkly baubles. Actual work and mingling with the peasants wasn’t supposed to be part of the deal.
The “me me me whiners” was a direct hit on Harry and Meghan. I have seen this same description on the trashy tabloid articles.
Tom Parker Bowles is oblivious that in this very speech, he is whining.
Libra, I thought it had something to do with comments about his Mom, the Escort. You know what they say, if you have to explain the ‘joke’ …
“The most civilized and open-minded surroundings” as long as one agrees with everything they say or do. To say these words and then bitch, loudly, about anyone who disagrees with you is boggling my mind! Can these people not see their hypocrisy??
…and speaking of aging not so well – tom barker bowles looks at least (!) ten years older than his actual age.
Drugs are bad, kids
Excessive use of Colombian Marching Powder does that.
Evidently, even “the most civilized and open-minded surroundings” can contain a roomful of douchebags.
I dont even understand what he’s talking about. Is this just another attack on H&M? Is this an attack on people who won’t let the rich white brits be as racist and homophobic in their jokes as they want to be? How do you connect Cigar Smoker of the Year (they really do make up awards for anything dont they) to……”me me me whiners”?
Cigar Smoker of the Year Dinner and Awards? Well, this gives me great hope for a Sexiest Bald Man Gala.
Interesting that this louche person has constantly been in the news of late. Is the award a joke? A gathering of “unwoke” people to complain and whine. Of course. Look at the audience, if Morgan and P-B are anything to go by.
‘Santa Rita Cigar Smoker of The Year Dinner and Awards’. This is a thing?? WTAF??
TPB embodies the stereotype of the very worst upper-class British twit.
Substitute an “a” for an “i” in the last word of your sentence. 😉
Tom P.B gets a title and frogmore cottage is just waiting for him to move into. He has no permanent place to live now. Which is his constant complaint.
Tom says he hates the “virtue-signalers,” which once again reminds the public that his Mummy never had any virtue to signal! Ha!