Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Photo: Chris Jackson/WPA Pool/Getty
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwallis the latest royal family member to add “guest editor” to her royal résumé!
The wife ofPrince Charleswill be the guest editor ofCountry Lifein July as a celebration of her 75th birthday that month, the magazine revealed on Tuesday.
The special edition issue “will reflect The Duchess’s love of horses and dogs — she has two rescue Jack Russell terriers, Bluebell and Beth, and is patron of Battersea Cats and Dogs' Home. The Duchess will reveal her champions of the countryside, her most cherished view and favourite recipe,” the magazine said in a press release. “The edition will also focus on the work of The Duchess as patron of over 90 charities, from Barnardo’s to The Royal School of Needlework and The Royal Society of Literature.”
Tom Parker Bowles, Camilla’s son who happens to be a food writer, critic and longstanding contributor to the magazine, said of the announcement, “As a columnist forCountry Life, I’m delighted my mother will be guest-editing a special issue. But rather hoping she won’t try to muck about with my copy.”
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty
Camilla will be the third member of the royal family to contribute to the magazine as a guest editor.Prince Charleshas taken up the role twice, to mark his 65th birthday in November 2013 and again when he turned 70 in 2018. In 2020, Princess Anne put her stamp on the magazine to commemorate her 70th birthday.
Camilla recentlyspent ChristmaswithPrince CharlesandQueen Elizabethat Windsor Castle after the monarch, 95, canceled her annual trip to Sandringham to celebrate the holiday with the royal family amid a surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.K.
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The Queen announced on New Year’s Eve that the Duchess of Cornwall wouldbecome a Royal Lady of the Order of the Garter, the most senior order of knighthood in the British honors system.
source: people.com
