Camilla at Wimbledon on Wednesday.Photo:Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images
Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images
Queen Camillais bringing the “royal” to Wimbledon’s Royal Box!
The Queen, 75, headed to Wimbledon on Wednesday as the tennis championships moved into the crucial late stages.
Soon after she arrived, Camilla was introduced to former top British tennis player Johanna Konta and some of those staffers who have supported the ongoing work at the prestigious tournament. Included in that were some ball boys and girls, whose workKate Middletonrecentlyhighlighted in a fun videofilmed with tennis championRoger Federerin the run-up to the tournament.
During the chat, Queen Camilla asked the young woman if she was enjoying her first year as a ball girl.
“You have to be very agile,” the royal said before revealing her own time in the role. “I remember doing it 100 years ago. It’s quite difficult to get it right.”
Queen Camilla in the Royal Box at Wimbledon.Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images
Victoria Jones/PA Images via Getty Images
Queen Camilla also used her outing to focus on some causes that she supports, meeting a detection dog handler and a search dog.
Queen Camilla meets a detection dog.Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images
When Queen Camilla took her seat in the Royal Box at Centre Court, she had a familiar face beside her: sister Annabel Elliot. The siblings have attended Wimbledon together on several occasions in past years, but Annabel recently stepped into the spotlight at the May 6 coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla. She — along with Camilla’s friend Fiona Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne — acted as served as acoronation attendantfor the Queen during the crowning ceremony.
Annabel is also one of sixQueen’s Companionsfor Camilla, a modern spin on the traditional ladies-in-waiting that supported Queen Elizabeth throughout her reign.
Queen Camilla and Annabel Elliot at Wimbledon 2023.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Queen Camilla’s appearance at the tennis matches followed Princess Kate, who visited the prestigious tournamentin the early rounds. The Princess of Wales is expected back for the finals this weekend.
Last week, Princess Kate’s brother,James, and hispregnant wife, Alizee, were in the seats above Centre Court, while on Tuesday royal relative Lady Sarah Chatto (the daughter of the late Princess Margaret) and her husband Daniel were among the tennis fans.
And Camilla wasn’t the only member of the royal family to take in the sporting action on Wednesday — Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Zara, along with her husband Mike Tindall, stepped out for a day date at Wimbledon.
Zara’s brother, Peter Phillips, also attended with his girlfriend, Lindsay Wallace.
King Charles did not join his wife and is not one of Wimbledon’s royal regulars. The monarch has only attended the event twice, in 1970 and 2012.
Queen Camilla meets ball boys and girls.Victoria Jones - Pool/Getty Images
Both Princess Kate and Prince William have been courtside regulars at Wimbledon since 2011 when they attended the tournament together for the first time. Last year, they brought along their smartly-dressed sonPrince Georgefor hisWimbledon debutto watch the men’s final.
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Queen Camilla in the Royal Box.Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
In 2016, Kate took over the patronage of the prestigious tennis club from the lateQueen Elizabeth, an honor that includes not only handing out trophies but wearing an exclusive green and purple bow tie pin to signify her status.
source: people.com
