You can count on one hand the number of times Queen Camilla has worn jeans or trousers for any public outing. Usually, she seems comfortable enough in her loose housedresses, which are something of a uniform for her. But Camilla decided to wear a dark pantsuit on Friday, for a surprise appearance at the Ebony Horse Club. Thoughts? While I’ll always recognize a woman’s right to wear trousers, I have to say, Camilla’s housedresses are much more flattering on her figure. She just looks so different in a pantsuit, it’s sort of blowing my mind. People Mag also points out that QEII believed royal women should always wear skirts and dresses, a “royal rule” which basically ended in 2017 when then-Meghan Markle started wearing trousers everywhere (and then Kate started copying her).
Meanwhile, Camilla is president of this club, and she apparently wanted to watch the equestrian events. Shockingly, her ex-husband was also in attendance! Andrew Parker Bowles was there:
Queen Camilla made an appearance at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire on Friday, where she encountered her former husband Andrew Parker Bowles during a reception.
The monarch, who serves as president of the Ebony Horse Club, was at the prestigious equestrian event to celebrate the Brixton-based charity’s 30th anniversary.
Her Majesty spent time with volunteers and young people from the organisation’s south London riding school, which offers lessons, workshops and support programmes for disadvantaged youngsters.
The Queen and Mr Parker Bowles married in 1973 and share two children, Tom and Laura. Their marriage ended in 1995, after 22 years.
Mr Parker Bowles’s connection to the Royal Family extends further than Camilla. Last month, he represented Princess Anne at a Thanksgiving service for Ian Balding, Queen Elizabeth’s former racehorse trainer.
It cracks me up that the press is always like “remember, APB is not only Camilla’s ex-husband, he’s also Anne’s former lover!” We get it! Andrew PB and Camilla have spent the better part of 55 years destroying the royal family! As for the horse stuff… she would prefer to spend her time like this, puttering around horse clubs with her ex-husband.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Queen Camilla during a visit to Ebony Horse Club at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire, which has selected the club as its chosen charity this year Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2026 Credit: Eddie Mulholland/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during a visit to Ebony Horse Club at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire, which has selected the club as its chosen charity this year Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2026 Credit: Eddie Mulholland/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during a visit to Ebony Horse Club at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire, which has selected the club as its chosen charity this year Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2026 Credit: Eddie Mulholland/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla during a visit to Ebony Horse Club at the Badminton Horse Trials in Gloucestershire, which has selected the club as its chosen charity this year Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2026 Credit: Eddie Mulholland/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Queen Camilla meeting riders from Ebony Horse Club at the Badminton Horse Trials, in Gloucestershire, which has selected the club as its chosen charity this year Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom When: 08 May 2026 Credit: Eddie Mulholland/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Ugh. That’s all I got. Never will I ever grasp what Charles saw in this person that induced him to throw over his wife & sacrifice his relationship with his children. What an ogre.
💯 agree with you… I just don’t get it!
I will never understand it either.. I also will never understand those who act like her actions are forgivable because imo they are not.
She also looks like an employee of some sort in that outfit.. not what I ever expected to see her in, she is usually a moo-moo housecoat style person.
It is too plain looking and she needed a better blouse and jacket,
If Charles had really loved her like he said he did, he would have left everything behind to have her. Like a certain uncle of his. But he did a lot of things just to piss off his mother. Nothing justifies their privilege.
I understand the Diana stuff (they were age-inappropriate strangers who had nothing in common and wouldn’t have been together in a different world), but I’ll never forgive her for the ways William and Harry have claimed she treated them.
Charles treated Diana badly. That was the problem.they were not strangers they married and had two children together
@mollyegi
Not just Harry and William, but Diana as well. She sabotaged her from day one, then tried to pretend to be her friend to be close to Charles. They were both appalling in their treatment of Diana, seeing each other constantly before Charles’s wedding to Diana, spending the last night before the party together, and then—as Diana said—and then there were three of them. The Queen Mother facilitated their trysts in her home, arranging dates for the famous quadrangle: Charles with Camilla, and Anna with Camilla’s husband.
And in all of this, a young, romantic soul dreaming of love, yet being abused by these disgusting people.
Charles and his side piece are not worth any attention—they need to disappear. They are both repulsive. And they are living off the public dole. Puke. Puke,
I actually dont mind the look. I think she looks more comfortable in her housedresses but this is fine, and appropriate for the event.
The pants/trousers argument is always so silly to me because…Kate’s jeggings were fine and in fact got praised (as did her athletic looks, like when she would wear leggings with a puffy coat) but Meghan’s professional business casual trousers were going to bring down the monarchy.
The trouser suit looks OK to me, I always think that her dresses would look better if she didn’t have the flared skirt or pleats around the hips.
Same. I thought she liked fine in the pants.
Princess Anne was wearing pantsuits decades before Kate or Meghan. She is the OG in all things Princess.
Frankly I think she looks better in the trouser suit than in the frumpy, Granny dresses!
Encountered? What is this ‘encountered’ stuff? They often spend time together. After all he is the real love of her life.
They were both playing away when they were married.
If APB had any inclination to monogamy they’d still be married.
Sometimes I think if Charles just hadn’t named her, they’d still be married. He’d been an alley cat the whole time, before, during, and after marriage. Why he’s still appealing to Anne, Camilla, and whoever else is fascinating to me. I don’t get it.
What a putrid and wicked woman! How Charles preferred her over Diana will always remain a mystery to me! Was he so jealous of Diana that he would rather sleep with this vile woman over her?
I can accept the story that he preferred her over Diana (just) because the “heart wants, what the heart wants” However, to isolate those vulnerable young boys away from their father when they needed him the most was/is unforgivable. I accept the argument that it should be down to KCIII to have made more of an effort but, if she is the so called “Charles Whisperer” she could have persuaded him to do more with them. After all she’s (quite rightly) very close to her children and grandchildren and made sure that KCIII set up trust funds for them but, appeared to do very little to encourage KCIII to ensure William and Harry were financially and emotionally secure.
IF the heart wants what the heart wants, it is no excuse for Charles. 1. He met her before she married APB. He could have told her they had a future together. He didn’t. 2. If the heart wants Camilla he should not have married anybody else–especially using a woman he did not love to get heirs with. If Diana had been treated better after the divorce, kept the HRH and given full security, she could have been there to help with raising the children. Charles is a bad father and grandfather. Camilla did not care about those boys, except William who is the heir and might have something to say about her future.
She looks like Jimmy Saville in a dress, maybe that’s why.
Camilla is not monarch. She’s consort to monarch. The pants suit does not look good on her
That struck me, too, Tessa. Charles is the monarch, at least nominally
She is like Kate in that she seeks cameras out and grins at them
It would have been great if the other royal women had started wearing pants when Meghan was getting attacked for it. They let Meghan get bashed and then started dressing like her after she left.
She should have worn a jacket in a lighter color to go with the slacks.
Anne did, including in 2018 and 2019, the press just ignored it.
I’m still laughing at the description of Camilla’s favourite day wear as being a “loose house dress” – lol.
I guess it sounds better than calling her usual dresses “sacks”. They’re so loose and only seem to touch her shoulders after all.
I like the trouser suit better than her A line dresses and coats.
Yes, she looks a lot slimmer. A colorful jacket would have been more flattering.
Ooh! It could have been a “sweet nod” to QEII if she wore a color 🤣🤣🤣
Agree 💯%, and I think she should wear them more for “work”.
I like the pant suit look better then the dresses also. I think she looks younger and who wants to wear dresses around horses, stables, etc….
Her boobs don’t look as sad
To defend Camilla a little bit: the Badminton Horse Trials are THE most important horse event (because Eventing is their favorite discipline) on Salt Island. And there’s lots of entertainment around the competition itself. Both the Queen and Princess Anne went there on a regular basis and it’s kind of a must that a member of the BRF is there. As are tons of other people with aristocratic connections – her ex husband would have been there anyway I guess.
She looks psychotic when she fake smiles. Totally menacing.
Eh. She can wear whatever she likes. But she looks terrible in all of it.
Queen Camilla (and Kate) should dress casually more often. They would look less dowdy. The Queen looks very nice here.
In the last pic I can’t distinguish which one is the horse between the standing legged creatures
She looks better in pants.
Marlene Dietrich wore such a pants outfit (all in black) and wore it better. Camilla needed a more stylish blouse and a pastel Jacket. It’s too plain looking.
I thought she looked much better in the trousers and jacket combo than she does in her loose dresses. They seem to fit better and made her look slimmer.
I kinda like it! She looks a lot younger in this than she does in those godawful housecoat things. It’s got a Mick Jagger-esque vibe to it 😂
Either the pants should have been looser or the jacket should have been a contrasting color.
Her smile reminded me of the song from the Housemartins:
“The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much, they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the queen was charming”
Anne’s been wearing pants on duty since the 70s and Sophie did too. People is talking out its butt.
She looks thinner, less haggard and way less frumpy than usual. I like this better than her usual Queen Mum cosplay and the beige monstrosity Keen wore last week (and that baby @#$% green horror she wore awhile back). She should dress like this more often.
I don’t think that’s a suit, I think it’s jeans and a jacket. It’s fine. Boring, but fine.
Too much black. I think blue Jeans would have been and a nice pair of ankle boots would have been nice. They would have worked with the black jacket. You can only do so much with a sow’s ear.
Let’s add that she has short, stumpy legs. She does not look like a queen in that outfit, or any outfit, to be truthful.