The Christmas card of Carlo and Camilla, a beautiful couple portrait

Smiling, close-knit and definitely informal: just like that Charles of England and his wife Camilla of Cornwall they wished a happy Christmas to their subjects (and followers) with the traditional New Year postcard. The photo, released by Clarence House in the late evening of Wednesday 16 December, was taken in Birkhall, Scotland, where the couple spent the worst months of the pandemic in total isolation. also due to the prince’s positivity to the virus, fortunately without important consequences.

The photo of Charles and Camilla was published via social media a few seconds before that of the Dukes of Cambridge, the family portrait that, unofficially, had already started circulating online since last Saturday: “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have the pleasure of sharing a new photo of their family ”, they wrote accompanying the shot.

Two publications almost simultaneously, in short, to underline, if there was still a need, the total synchrony between the senior members of the British royal family after Harry and Meghan leave the scene. Union cemented in recent months, when distant, but always in contact with each other, everyone at the Windsor home did their part to give the country a strong signal of unity and understanding, culminating in Kate and William’s first post lockdown royal tour. And now that London is closed again, crystallized in its phase 3, the role of the royal family seems even more decisive.

In both cases the message is of great closeness to the subjects. Professional shots but without great artifice, extracts from everyday life in the places of the heart, Anmer Hall for the new generations, Scotland for the old guard. Carlo and Camilla have chosen their garden, in a spring riot of colors and vitality. She looks at the camera, he laughs happily. Who knows how many more smiles and how many fewer tears if they had had the opportunity to be together immediately. But life admits no “ifs”. The road made, however tortuous, has brought them to the joy of today. And they certainly couldn’t be more grateful.

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