‘Emergency Camilla’ doubles noticed at King Charles III’s coronation
Queen Camilla is lastly getting the crown — and eagle-eyed viewers seen that two companions strolling behind her on the coronation of King Charles III are the spitting picture of her.
Many followers even joked that the 2 girls have been Camilla’s “again ups.”
“Good they’ve received two Emergency Camillas ready in case something occurs to the primary one,” one viewer tweeted.
“When a person marries his mistress….,” somebody quipped in response.
“Spare – the sequel,” one other joked, referring to Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir “Spare.”
“He saved his phrase. He made his mistress his queen lol,” one commenter snarked.
“Are the 2 girls behind Camilla her decoys, like what Padme had?” one other tweeted, evaluating the Queen to the fictional “Star Wars” character Padmé Amidala. “As some have mentioned, the entire thing could be very Phantom Menace!”
“Can’t deny it’s at all times good to have a few spares,” a fan chimed in.
Although it could appear like the ladies are Camilla clones, the women in attendance are literally her sister Annabel Elliot and longtime pal and Queen’s companion Woman Lansdowne.
The 75-year-old was additionally accompanied by her grandsons Gus Lopes, Louis Lopes, and Freddy Parker Bowles, in addition to her grand-nephew Arthur Elliot.
At Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, she had six maids of honor who assisted her within the ceremony.
Camilla’s determination to forgo maids of honor and as a substitute simply have two girls along with her strains up along with her determination to have “Queen’s companions” reasonably than ladies-in-waiting.
“Changing the position of lady-in-waiting will finish a characteristic of court docket life going again to the center ages, with such shut private helpers of a Queen usually coming from aristocratic households and, over the centuries, generally caught up in court docket intrigue,” the BBC reported in November.
The six Queen’s companions embrace Jane von Westenholz, Woman Katharine Brooke, Sarah Troughton, Woman Sarah Keswick, Baroness Chisholm and the Marchioness of Lansdowne — one of many girls in attendance as we speak.
