King Charles and Queen Camilla launch 2025 Christmas card | EUROtoday

King Charles and Queen Camilla have launched their official Christmas card, that includes their twentieth marriage ceremony anniversary portrait.

The royal couple are pictured standing aspect by aspect, with the Queen’s arm linking the King’s, within the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky, the British ambassador’s residence in Rome, earlier this yr.

The card is framed by a darkish pink border, with the printed message in an identical color on the other aspect, studying “Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year”.

The couple marked 20 years of marriage on April 9 throughout their state go to to Italy, and spent the night of their anniversary as company of honour at a grand banquet.

In the picture taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson, Camilla is carrying a white and beige coat costume by Anna Valentine and a lily of the valley brooch, whereas the King is wearing a blue pinstripe go well with with a gray tie and a silk handkerchief in his chest pocket.

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The King and Queen ship out a whole lot of Christmas playing cards annually to household, pals, world leaders, diplomats, charities and organisations.

Charles shall be making ready to host the broader royal household on Christmas Day, with the royal festivities often going down at Sandringham in Norfolk.

The Prince of Wales divulged final yr he was spending the day with 45 members of his household “all in one room”.

But off the visitor checklist is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, with the previous prince banished from the royal household and stripped of his titles over his hyperlinks to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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The royal household often stroll to church on Christmas morning and luxuriate in a conventional turkey roast with all of the trimmings earlier than sitting down to observe the King’s Christmas broadcast on tv.

Last yr, Charles used his Christmas deal with to pay tribute to the “selfless” docs and nurses who supplied “strength, care and comfort” throughout most cancers therapy for him and the Princess of Wales.

The King and Camilla have had a busy run over the previous yr, regardless of Charles nonetheless present process therapy for the illness.

They travelled to Canada, met the Pope on the Vatican, and hosted three incoming state visits at Windsor – France with President Emmanuel Macron, the US with President Donald Trump, after which final week, Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

It is the primary time in practically 40 years that there have been three state visits to the UK in a single yr.