Over the weekend, Queen Camilla trotted out for King George Day/Weekend at Ascot Racecourse. She went solo – King Charles was photographed in Sandringham, so I guess they spent the weekend apart. The thing is, Charles really doesn’t give a crap about horses at this point, he just shows up to the biggest horse-related events on the calendar because he feels like that’s his job and a continuation of what his mother did. So he sends Camilla out for the “lesser” horse events, because she actually enjoys it (birds of a feather). All that being said, it’s weird that Camilla would only go to Ascot if she could chopper in:
A fifteen minute drive from Windsor Castle, less than an hour from Clarence House. Why is she arriving by helicopter? https://t.co/ESdO7mC7Mq
— Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🇬🇱 🐧 (@GrahamSmith_) July 28, 2025
As Republic’s Graham Smith says, why did she need a helicopter for this journey? I wonder if Camilla was coming from Ray Mill rather than Clarence House or Windsor Castle actually. This was on Saturday, and Camilla and Charles do tend to retire to spend weekends apart, usually at their separate country homes. As I said, Charles was in Sandringham, but did Camilla join him? Did she chopper in from Norfolk or Ray Mill? Not that it’s any excuse – QEII didn’t like to use helicopters as her own personal taxi service, but it looks like she was the last one holding the line. Now that she’s gone, the left-behind Windsors travel almost exclusively by private plane, helicopter or borrowed super-yacht. I can’t even remember the last time any of them traveled by train?
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Royals attending King George Day at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 26 Jul 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals attending King George Day at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 26 Jul 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals attending King George Day at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 26 Jul 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals attending King George Day at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 26 Jul 2025 Credit: Cover Images
“See Willy? I’m using the Uber chopper while you’re on the Greek yacht!”
Awful dress too for the Rottweiler. Must be inspired by canvas tents.
OMG, I didn’t see your comment before making mine. My tent looks EXACTLY like that, including the ghastly trim.
😂 GMTA!
I bet she can stash so much shit underneath that tent. Freebie time!
Charles used to care about the environment.
Didn’t Charles decree the demise of the Royal Train, or am I imagining things?
Camilla’s dress reminds me of the canvas tent I’m taking to Burning Man.
That’s all I got. 🤷🏾♀️
Yes it does resemble a tent but on further look it’s oddly attractive on her.
Who’s the elderly gentleman she’s leaning to air kiss?
Not sure but when I first saw that picture I thought it was her ex-husband. His health hasn’t been great lately and he has aged terribly.
Stroke if it’s APB?
Maybe that’s why Chuck wasn’t with her. This is her me-time with the ex.
It looks like Nicholas Soames. Former MP, close friend of Charles and Grandson of Winston Churchill.
Is that the man who was ousted from the ascot carriage bc Kate didn’t show? LOL.
The man who called Diana crazy after panorama, live on TV, if I remember right.
Looks like Charles’s crony Nicholas Soames
And this is all paid for by the taxpayers… do greedy people ever feel any shame or guilt?
No. They want more. Bottomless pit of want.
In Buddhist parlance, these folks are “hungry ghosts”—everything is never enough even when they are alive…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_ghost
Makes me laugh how they sold this woman to us as someone who never wanted to be queen, never wanted all the fuss or the perks. She LOVES all of it. Her smirk when she was crowned said it all.
On Twitter I met the bulldog, who argued with me that the chopper is cheaper than the car because it doesn’t need a motorcade of motorbikes and range rovers. And all the closed streets costs so much more money 😂
Trains are the most environmentally sustainable mode of transportation. If the Windsors were serious about climate collapse they would use trains.
A tent dress
She grins for those cameraa
Ah yes Horsilla ( who never wanted to be Queen not) is partaking of all the perks of the royals and is choppering in when it is a short drive. Abolish the monarchy!!
I don’t want to believe she flew in from Clarence House or Windsor Castle. For PR purposes, if she was coming Ray Mill or Sandringham, she could have flew to Windsor Castle and then drove the rest of the way. But it’s clear that these people don’t care who they look to the public.
the helicopter “makes sense” by royal standards if she was at Ray Mill or Sandringham for the weekend. but if she knew she was attending this why not just stay at Windsor for the weekend and avoid the trips?
the answer is obviously “she does this because she can” but its still mind boggling.
Taking a helicopter in while the heir is enjoying an ultra luxury yacht hosted by a foreign government and while her “subjects “ are financially struggling gives Marie Antoinette.
Let the record show that Will took the train to Liverpool in January because he’s such a man of the people. A hard-working eco-warrior who is always thinking of his carbon footprint and has never been called out by the sovereign for excessive helicopter use.
That dress looks like a bad attempt to lengthen a pre-existing knee-length dress to make it more formal, but they didn’t have any more of the original fabric and couldn’t get any (or didn’t care to try). It is…not great.
And in case it rained or she got stuck there, she brought her own tent so she could hunker down. I’ll bet there are compartments inside the tent dress that hold flasks for her “tea”.
Wow. That dress is ALMOST flattering on her. 😳