Queen Camilla’s style in Kenya: elephants, toucans and giraffes

There Queen Camilla for the trip to Kenya left the formality at home and packed some sentimental jewels, practical looks And dresses with freebies to the symbols of the country he was visiting together with Charles III at the invitation of President William Ruto on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the independence of the nation belonging to the Commonwealth.

The sovereign, who did not fail to remember Elizabeth II In the country that saw her become queen, he didn’t change his style for the occasion but worked a lot on the details, those details that manage to give a special meaning to certain choices. Let’s go and discover them.

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Sentimental jewels

There Queen Camilla decided to commemorate the monarch who passed away in September 2022 on the day of her arrival in Nairobi. On the white silk dress created by Anna Valentineone of her reference stylists, noted one of Elizabeth II’s most loved jewels. This is the diamond brooch with a shell-shaped pearl, which previously belonged to Queen Mother which the royal also wore on the occasion of hers hundredth birthday.

The piece dates back to 1919 and was made by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co. based on a drawing by Sir Courtauld Thomson, the son of a Scottish inventor. It was her sister Winifred who bequeathed it to the sovereign’s wife in 1944 George VIElizabeth’s mother, with a wish: that that brooch could pass from queen to queen.

Camilla couldn’t help but bring a piece of the sovereign on this visit since Elizabeth II became queen in Kenya. She was reached by the news of the death of her father on 6 February 1952 while he was staying at the Treetops Hotela tree hotel in the middle of a natural park.

For dinner with the president William Ruto and his wife Rachel at the State House in Nairobi, Camilla preferred sobriety, considering it inappropriate in this circumstance to show off a tiara as he used to do in times like these.

However, instead of drawing from her mother-in-law’s treasure chest, she chose to select two pieces from her own for the event personal collection. In fact, she wore a diamond necklace in the shape of a snake and a bracelet with elephants that belonged to Camilla’s grandmother, according to what the reporters on tour with the real. In reality, the necklace spotted since 2001 was labeled as a gift from Carlo to his wife for a long time. Regardless of their origin, in both cases they would be jewels of the heart.

Both in Nairobi and Mombasa the queen wanted to underline her bond with her husband. She did this by anchoring to the lobes the earrings with pearls and diamonds shown off on the wedding day civil with Carlo which occurred in 2005.

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Elephants, giraffes and toucans on the clothes

At glance, Camilla’s clothes still look the same and in a certain sense they are given that the models are always those consolidated over the years. What changes are the details such as embroidery and patterns. For the stop at Kenya Society for the Protection and Care for Animalsthe queen has chosen a cream-colored dress cinched at the waist with a belt. However, what characterizes the garment created by the tailoring of Anna Valentinethere were giraffes embroidered in the folds of the skirt.

When Camilla visited the organization instead Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi she changed her clothes for breastfeeding baby elephants. Of the dress in which she was portrayed in the unusual pose, we could not see the details of the pattern which we discover to be a Liberty print designed by Fiona Clare, another of Camilla’s trusted designers, made special by the design of flowers, elephants and peacocks. The matching shoes made the outfit even more unique: a pair of boots with lug soles suitable for the mud in the park.

Camilla opted for one print full of animals even for the last day. The queen took out of the wardrobe a fresh dress in shades of green already seen in Rwanda and London combined with a straw bag and a raincoat. An unusual mix perhaps put together at the last minute due to the rain.

The tunic-palazzo trousers combination

It is not the first time that Camilla adopts the elegant but practical combination at the same time. For the state dinner on the first evening in Nairobi the Queen recovered a lavender suit with silver embroidery made for her by Anna Valentine previously shown off last January at the ball organized to celebrate the twenty years of the charity Elephant Family.

Even in Mombasa he dusted off an old outfit made up of pink tunic and white trousersonce again the work of Anna Valentine. Team (and model) that wins, you don’t change.