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It’s Christmas at Clarence House — andQueen Camillagot some special help with decorating!
Camilla, 75, opened the doors of the London home she shares withKing Charlesto welcome children from two charities she supports. It is an annual tradition at the home but the first time Camilla has done so as Queen. It came on the morning after she and Charles welcomed thediplomatic community to Buckingham Palacefor another festive occasion, a white tie reception complete with tiaras.
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Queen Camilla took her role as host of the event seriously, walking around to greet everyone asking “Everybody’s got everything?” and “Are you enjoying yourselves?”
Mother Kieri Dainty from Oxfordshire, who was a guest at the party along with her 8-year-old daughter Gwendolyn, described the day as “amazing.” “It’s lovely that she’s still doing all the charity work,” she said of Camilla. “What was important before is still important now.”
“It’s always a treat for me to start Christmases here — it literally kicks it off for us,” the Queen Consort said in a speech."
“To come here in the first few months of her being Queen, it just shows how she values her patronage to us and she cares about the children and the families who use the services,” Clare Periton, chief executive of Helen & Douglas House, said. “It’s a place where the families will make memories that they will never forget, and the children are treated like princesses and princes and it’s just such a special time. Everyone is accepted no matter what their disability is or what their condition is or what their abilities are. I think for families as well, it’s an opportunity that is invaluable.”
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Last month, Queen Camilla helped host a different kind of party —for children at a nurserywhich received some of the thousands of Paddington and other teddy bears that were left in tribute toQueen Elizabethin September.
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The Queen Consort was also revealed as thenew cover starofGood Housekeeping’sU.K. edition. Camilla smiled in a red coat dress adorned with a ballerina brooch before a sparkling fir for the cover of theChristmas and New Year’s issue, available for sale on Wednesday.
The issue also includes exclusive interviews withKate Middleton,Princess Anne,Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Princess Alexandra (Queen Elizabeth’s first cousin) and Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (the wife of Prince Richard, who is also first cousins with Queen Elizabeth). The royals are expected to address “their own selected causes spanning dementia, carers, child safety and missing people,” Hearst said.
source: people.com
