Queen Camilla Celebrates Her 76th Birthday, Her First One as Queen!

Queen Camilla celebrates 76th birthday. source: Daily Mail

The Prince and Princess of Wales are among the first to wish the Queen happy birthday.
This is Camilla’s first birthday since becoming Queen after Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September last year.
Find out more about the royal’s special day.

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Queen Camilla turns 76

A very happy royal birthday to Queen Camilla who recently turned 76.

Royal fans took to social media to express their heartfelt congratulations to Camilla on her special day, her first one as the Queen consort.

The official channel of the Royal Family posted a special tribute on Instagram and Twitter. The post showed King Charles III‘s wife smiling in the photos to mark the special day.

The Prince and Princess of Wales also sent their best wishes via an Instagram Story dedicated to her.

Royal fans also flocked to the comment section to wish the royal a happy birthday.

One person tweeted,

”The happiest of birthdays to our beautiful Queen Camilla,”

A second fan wrote,

Camilla Parker — This is Camilla’s first birthday as the Queen consort. source: Daily Mail

”I wish her all the happiness in the world and I hope she has an absolutely amazing day.”

A third commented,

”Happy 76th Birthday to Queen Camilla. I hope she has an absolutely amazing day.”

Another message read,

”The Queen was born Camilla Rosemary Shand on 17 July 1947 at King’s College Hospital London, the daughter of Major Bruce Shand and the Hon Rosalind Shand (nee Cubitt). Today is Her Majesty’s 76th birthday.”

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Some interesting facts about the Queen Consort

Here are some interesting facts about Queen Camilla you didn’t know.

Her parents were wealthy aristocrats

Camilla’s father was a major in the British Army and heir to his father’s baronry. Her mother was debutante of the year in 1939. She devoted her life to charity work and worked at an adoption agency. The couple tied the knot in 1946.

She also has some royal connections. Her great-grandmother Alice Keppel was the mistress of Charles’ great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII.

Her first husband was Andrew Parker Bowles

Queen Camilla might be Britain’s monarch’s wife but her first husband was Andrew Parker Bowles. He was an officer in the British Army and dated Princess Anne for a short time in 1970.

They shared two children: son Tom, and daughter Laura.

The two divorced in 1995 just a year before Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana ended.

She is two years older than Charles

Camilla is 76 years old and her husband is 74, meaning she is two years the monarch’s senior.

Her engagement ring belongs to the Queen Mother

Charles proposed to Camilla in February 2015 and the two wed that April. The 5-carat emerald cut diamond ring which is surrounded by three diamond baguettes on either side once belonged to Charles’s grandmother, the Queen Mother.

She is a dog lover

Queen Camilla is a royal patron of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London where she adopted her two dogs named Beth and Bluebell.

Her rescue dogs were embroidered onto her coronation gown, a white coat dress by Bruce Odfield.

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