PHOTO – So cute! To mark Mother’s Day this Sunday, March 30 in the UK, the royal family decided to mark the occasion by posting some very old photos on their Instagram account. They include a young Charles III with his mother.
A year after the fiasco of publishing a retouched photo of Kate Middleton with her children to reassure, a few days before announcing that she had cancer, another blunder is out of the question. On Mother’s Day 2025, which takes place this Sunday, March 30 in the UK, there’s no question of repeating the mistakes of the past. On The Royal Family Instagram account, King Charles III and Queen Camilla opted for nostalgia by posting some very old photos.
The first, in black and white, was taken in 1956, and shows Queen Elizabeth II surrounded by two of her children, Charles and Anne. The photo was taken when they were attending the Royal Windsor Horse Show. It shows the complicity between Charles and his mother, the Queen, with whom he was watching a documentary. In this photo, the two children are almost as elegant as their mother, who had been crowned three years earlier. A second photo shows Queen Camilla’s late mother, Rosalind, with her eldest grandson, Tom. A fitting tribute to a woman who died in 1994 at the age of 72. Queen Elizabeth II died almost three decades later, in 2022, at the age of 96.
Charles III’s beautiful tribute to his mother in his first speech as King in 2022
In his first speech as King, Charles III gave a heartfelt thank-you to his “beloved mother”. “Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently for all these years,” he said. She could rest assured that he would take up the torch and try to follow in her footsteps. A mother who would no doubt have been proud, even if his health worries would probably have worried her. “The queen was frightened by the idea of motherhood in the early days. She hadn’t learned anything from her own mother, but over the years, her children took away her fears,” confided author Robert Lacey in his book The Crown: The official Companion.
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