I hadn’t been keeping a close eye on King Charles’s comings and goings in recent weeks, which explains why I didn’t catch the fact that Queen Camilla hasn’t been seen with her husband in weeks. Weird, right? In the last weekend of July, Charles was seemingly solo at Sandringham, and Camilla was not seen with him when he walked to church on July 27th. The next day, Charles headed to Scotland. August 2nd, he attended the Mey Highland Games without his wife, and he seemingly spent the past week at Castle of Mey (the castle he inherited from his grandmother), also with no one seeing Camilla anywhere around. Well, funny story. It turns out that Camilla has been on a yacht belonging to a Syrian national who was/is a huge Tory donor. LMAO.
Queen Camilla enjoyed a luxury holiday around Greece on a £30million superyacht owned by a billionaire Tory donor. The King’s wife was spotted on Syrian-Saudi Wafic Said’s boat Zenobia while travelling to some of the Mediterranean country’s most select tourist hotspots. With the Royal Family meant to be strictly apolitical, Camilla being spotted on a Tory billionaire donor’s boat will be seen by many as sending out the wrong message.
And while there is no suggestion the King’s 78-year-old wife has done anything wrong, accepting hospitality from someone so influential in the world of politics is not a good look. It also comes at a time when millions of ordinary Brits are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis – and King Charles has spoken about cutting back on royal extravagance.
Camilla was seen on Syrian-Saudi Wafic Said’s £30million boat Zenobia in a bay off the coast of Greece this week. Former Lib Dem minister Norman Baker, author of a new book on finances called Royal Mint, National Debt, said: “Members of the Royal Family really ought to consider the public perception of such episodes, whether they are on holiday or official business. They are representing the country at all times and, let’s be honest, it’s not as if they are short of cash. This is not a good look for Camilla, especially when the relationships between the royals and their associates are rightly called into question.”
Queen Camilla is not thought to have been joined on Zenobia by Charles. He was at the Mey-Highland Games last Saturday. Mr Said – who brokered the record multi-billion-pound Al Yamamah arms deal between Saudi Arabia and the UK in the mid-1980s – was not onboard. The Al Yamamah arms deal was subject to an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, but the probe was discontinued in 2006.
The 85-year-old, who is at number 85 in The Sunday Times Rich List with a £1.9billion fortune, was a significant donor to the Tories before rules were changed in 2000 to allow only those on the UK electoral register to give parties cash. He was a very close friend of former PM Margaret Thatcher. His wife of 56 years Rosemary is still a Tory donor. Experts say it is crucial the Royal Family remains apolitical.
I looked up Wafic Said – born in Syria, made his fortune in Saudi Arabia, previously lived in Switzerland and currently lives in Monaco, although he owns property all over the world, including England. So, do we believe Said is simply allowing Camilla to borrow his yacht? Or do we think that she’s paid to rent it? I believe she borrowed it, meaning it was given to her as a freebie. Camilla loves a freebie. The monarchy had to change the monarchy’s gifting rules because Camilla kept being “given” so many jewels whenever she traveled. And yes, this is a horrible look all around. First William and Kate borrow some super-yacht and sail around Greece, and now it’s Camilla doing the same thing? And why isn’t she with Charles? I’m sure we’ll soon get some big exclusive in the Telegraph about “Charles knows how hard poor Camilla has been working, he demanded that she borrow someone’s yacht for a nice vacation.” Camilla is always taking these solo holidays too – some people have theorized that they periodically need to dry her out. I doubt she’s drying out on a yacht though.
EXCLUSIVE: Queen Camilla holidays on Tory donor's luxury £30million superyacht https://t.co/4OSOmBEvcg pic.twitter.com/jKR8eaQe6A
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) August 9, 2025
Cover courtesy of the Mirror, additional photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: Queen Camilla.King Charles III Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: King Charles III.Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royals during day one of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse Featuring: King Charles III.Queen Camilla Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 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
The company these Windsors keep speaks volumes. If there is any doubt how unsuitable the people are as the premier family in the land, the freebie yachts are it. They truly are leeches and parasites happily going along to be supported in their lifestyle with no qualms.
Also, this is Willy’s revenge 🍿
I hope they destroy each other. At the end of the day, the Rottweiler is a married in – and a very unpopular one at that – and the rats will always protect the heir.
“Willys’ revenge”. Was immediately thinking the same when I saw this. Who else would gain by outing her and taking the heat off him?
My thoughts exactly. this is direct from KP.
Interesting that we did not get this much information about the Wales vacation and yacht. I wish the press would keep the same energy for all the royals.
@Becks1 I agree. I actually think borrowing a yacht for a foreign minister from the UAE is a bigger conflict of interest than a Tory donor, who has some record of his actions documented.
I’m here for it. The Wales vs C&C. What’s Camilla going to do next? 🍿
VJ Day is looking good! 🧨
I immediately thought “Willy’s revenge” too. Although would he want to put a fine point about the optics of accepting free Mediterranean cruises, especially when his was an even bigger megayacht, one of the biggest megayachts in the world? Any criticism and questions Camilla gets would apply to him, and maybe even make people give him the hard scrutiny they’ve held back from so far. But yeah, who else but Willy would leak this?
The press actually got pictures of Camilla, where as nobody got a shot of the Wales family. W&K have plausible deniability, so less criticism from the press along with the fact that nobody likes to Camilla. She doesn’t have a positive image to maintain.
I highly doubt the paps just stayed away when the Greek media was reporting on the super yacht. There is a photo of it in Greek media and it is more likely they have photos but not great one to publish.
The Wales had their trip leaked at the start of their vacay. I’m sure William was incandescent. It prob changed their trip plans to an extent in that they had to be more careful to avoid paps. In this case, is Camilla still on the yacht? Are the pics old? Is the trip over or just starting?
I’ve always said it: the royal family is a far right organization. Some of them try to disguise it with worrying about the “environment” and other causes they don’t put their own money towards.
You’re never going to find a left-wing monarchy. Just because they’re no longer imprisoning their enemies and cutting off their heads doesn’t mean they’re going to stop looking at people as their subjects. And they’re not going to share their wealth because God gave it to them – they deserve it just because they were born.
They don’t put their own money toward anything–important causes, their own living expenses, vacation homes/yachts, etc.
Camilla has done this before – holidaying on yachts and getting papped – so I agree, this particular leak must have come from William in retaliation for his Greek “family yachting holiday” being leaked. Balmoral sure will be fun this year!
I don’t know if this link will post but this is the one I remember, before she was Queen:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2415064/Camillas-simple-holiday-A-20-M-S-swimsuit-gripping-novel.html
Warring yachts…so dignified and royal /s
I can more easily picture her taking kids, grandkids or her ex with her on the yacht than Charles. Must be yacht season.
That was what I was thinking. She was probably with her own family. I doubt she is vacationing on a huge yacht alone.
In the mirror they said exactly that, she was with her children and grandchildren. And a long passage that this donor is friends with the Parker-Bowles family for ages, Andrew included. Would be interesting if he was there too.
Are we sure it’s her? That floral dress looks so much nicer and more flattering than her usual full skirt big zipper house dresses.
Came here to say the same! Gawd, what a family of hyenas! You told on me so I’m telling on you. All that cash money and this is what they’re sniping over? Does WillyWanker win because his boat was bigger and even more unfriendly to the environment? How are H&M not being placed into this story for…reasons?
“While there is nothing wrong with her doing that it looks to those who are struggling in the UK is not a good look”!!!!!! Yes not a good look and just as bad as Peg and Can’t doing the same thing!!!!! Grifters the lot of them!!
It does seem just as bad but this cover seems more critical than the one the Wales got about their yacht vacay. Is it bc they have an actual pic and that it’s a Tory donor? At the end of the day they’re all borrowing yachts from rich people. Despite being already rich themselves.
The government took Britannia away from QE2 so now her heirs are disgracing themselves and proving to be so corruptible and a security risk with their love of yachts.
With W&K, the foreign media outed the yacht first. The british media waited on the story almost a week before downplaying it and yes, there was no photo. This seems like a payback from KP. We didn’t get this kind of stories for years about BRF except H&M. Now, they are fighting and coincidentally all of them get outed after leaking negative stories about the other?
Using a super yacht owned by a foreign minister for another country seems more of a conflict position than a Tory donor but yet the media is spinning this the opposite way.
The media giving William this much power will burn them. He is no better than Trump at this point with the lies and obfuscation.
This article is definitely more critical – I think thats partially bc Camilla is just less popular so she’s an easier target even now as queen, and because they have confirmation via picture.
But I don’t think Charles is going to be happy about this.
Charles perhaps didn’t go on this yacht because he realized the optics of the head of state being on this yacht would not be great. Camilla has no role in government.
That said William being on a superyacht owned by a UAE minister is very bad especially because he will be in an official government role eventually.
So the critical approach on Camilla and the silence about William are really the opposite approach that should be taken by the media.
It is *maybe* a schooch less “bad”, but yet, it still shows that Charles & Will can be “bought/influenced”, whether it’s by another gov’t or their own. NOT a good look, especially when they can rent the same size yacht for what would probably amount to just the interest they earn on all their accounts (public & offshore) in a few days.
It’s beyond shameful, but that doesn’t matter to anyone who can’t/doesn’t feel shame for any of their actions.
@Nic919, these people let Camilla borrow their yacht because she is married to the King. Of course, she has a responsibility not to use her position for things like that. When the UK PM’s wife accepted free clothes from Labor donors, the tabloids run on the story for a week that PM is getting freebie from rich people for his wife. Charles would absolutely know who is paying for his wife’s luxury vacations and would help them if they ask for a favor as a payback.
What Camilla did isn’t great but the silence for William who literally will be head of state and review legislation, if he isn’t already, is even worse. This treatment should have been applied to him.
Yeah, my overall take is that they are going harder for this with Camilla than they did for the Wales. The Mirror is supposedly left-wing/labor so maybe it was the tory donor thing but they should’ve been just as critical of William. But honestly, I think it’s mostly bc the press protects the Wales in an almost unnatural way. Like Charles will be gone at some point and Camilla is not the future. So they’re protecting the future of the monarchy. I think Charles didn’t go bc he gives the vibes that he’d go stir crazy on a yacht and would rather be roaming Romania. I can’t imagine Charles did not know that Camilla was on this person’s yacht. But maybe I’m wrong on that. Maybe Charles normally loves yachts but had no idea that Camilla was on one with her fam…and maybe even APB. But I lean towards him knowing but who knows?
So Jason decided to give them something to distract from the UAE foreign minister super yacht including photos.
I still wonder why paps didn’t get photos in Greece. Or maybe they did but no one has printed them.
I’m sure there are photos of them including from Penny. Maybe they’ll drop them at a suitable moment?
The Rottweiler will be barking mad for receiving the front page grainy treatment! Looks so dodgy. At least she wasn’t papped with another man – not the king – a la Fergie 😏 or maybe she was and Willy has the shots! 😂
Gotta love this for them 🍿
The other man is her ex husband. She’s still close to him. And they share all these grandkids.
Wouldn’t we all like to cruise around the Greek islands on a luxury yacht.
Only if we got plenty of shore time to go explore the ruins! And museums! And cemeteries (I love cemeteries, the stories that are told there!).
I’m with you. I love cemeteries and walking tours. I can do haunted bar tours mostly bc there’s so many people passing through. But haunted enclosed spaces are a no for me. Ruins for sure. This is where I feel for uber famous people. It is harder to do those types of things.
It’s interesting that Charles and Camilla is supposed to be this great love story but never spend time together except on engagements. How is the press reporting on this and not on the fact that William and Kate did the same thing?
I think this reflects what their relationship actually always was, two people who got together to screw and have fun. There was never any big love story there, just embarrassment it was exposed to the general population and not an aristocratic open secret. After Diana died there were no excuses or made up rules or protocols so he had to make her an ” honest woman”.
I don’t think he ever would have married her, or been forced to appear like there’s was a love story which stood the test of time if his hand hadn’t been forced. Which honestly sounds a lot like a second couple in that family. Which leads me to believe that we’ll eventually get polite inquiry stories asking why the Prince and Princess of Wales don’t seem to spend much time in the same postcode unless they’re doing an engagement or with their children.
Charles forced his own hand by naming camilla,as his mistress. Andrew Parker Bowles turned a blind eye but was not going to stay in a marriage after Charles named his wife. The duke of Windsor never named Wallis while she was married. He did after her divorce and her husband took the blame and after the abdication papers were signed.
I think Charles still likes Camilla and they have separate families so it is less odd for them to do stuff apart. If Charles didn’t mess it up with his own kids he would be doing things with them.
William always acts like he dislikes Kate in public but that’s trickier because it’s the first marriage and they still try to act like it’s a love story as opposed to the agreement to tolerate William doing whatever he wants while she has kids and the crown.
I think charles and Camilla have figured out a relationship that works for them and they both seem happy enough. its not a traditional marriage as many of us think of it but with both having grown kids when they got married the separate vacations make a little more sense. It just seems to stand out bc Charles isn’t doing things with his grown kids and never really has – its not just because he’s king.
Camilla was and is Charles’ Rotweiler and sounding board. Both made sport of going after Diana. Also, I think Camilla has been a kind of mother figure to him, filling the void of his own aloof mother.
All of that. Camilla is his Angela Kelly. They are partners in crime. Saying they made sport of going after Diana is one of the truest things ever. That is where I lose all respect. It wasn’t so much that they were in love but that they made sport out of torturing her. They both had other lovers. But that was what bonded them. And I’ve never been super icked by that tampon comment from the unlawful recording. Don’t get me wrong; it was ick but what icked me out more than anything was the way Camila was so obsequious and patronizing and overly flattering in the way she spoke to Charles. She soothes his ego and coddles him. And that is their relationship. So yeah I think they like each other and are bonded but the idea that they are some big love story? Absolutely not.
Or at least not a big romantic love story is what I mean. Sorry, just to add, I believe there is a real love there but not in the pr way they project about being the great romantic loves of each other’s lives.
So the Royals have been in bed with the Saudi’s for decades. Has no one ever thought about asking their involvement in 9/11? I assume they knew and were undoubtedly complicit.
It’s worse than that. Not a one-off event, but systemic.
Here is a corrupt arms deal by the Saudis with the UK Ministry of Defence 😳
Having the complicity by the head of state on board is the cherry on top 🍰
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/07/long-read-british-bribery-britain-arms-deals-saudi-arabia-ian-foxley
Let’s also not forget the thatcher gov and MT’s son! Arms dealing is in their blood.
Great article, thanks for posting. I recall Ian Foxley did a deep dive into Diana’s death that was televised, maybe 12 or 13 years ago? I’ve looked for it but can’t find it.
Not shocked, not even vaguely surprised that they’d be so stupid to not recognize the optics of this self-imposed situation.
They may recognize the optics, but why should they care? No accountability is a feature, not a bug, of monarchy.
True this. 🎯
@Brassy Rebel, exactly: never complain, never explain … and never take blame.
This. There will never be any accountability for these people.
As we have learned over the last couple of years with Harry’s various case they may not favour a particular party but they are inbuilt into the Fabric of britain, Royal courts, Charity commisions, Security, Her Majesty’s secret service etc they are everywhere so who ever is flavour of the month they can align with. Didn’t she stay at one of Nadal’s properties at one point? That she thanked him at Wimbledon.
This grifting must come with being part of the British Monarchy. I think we only see the top of the iceberg.
Yeah, you know that in their berths on these yachts they found swag bags. Top-of-the-line sunscreen and body-care products at a minimum, but also maybe even jewelry, expensive toys for the kids, maybe even cash knowing Charles’ proclivities.
Yep, there were probably a lot of other freebies thrown in as well.
But I think there are a lot of other holidays, jewellery,art and money, we do not know about, gifted to any member of the royal family. We just get a glimpse of it through this report and the book about Andrew. I have not seen any other British tabloid picking up this story.
“But I think there are a lot of other holidays, jewellery, art and money, we do not know about”……yep. Meanwhile, Harry and Meghan were ripped to shreds for visiting… Elton John. GMAFB.
Knives out!
More yacht photos incoming.
Chuck and Camzilla really do spend a lot of time apart, don’t they?
They look like work colleagues. Have they been recently papped at leisure and not at a work event?
There’s more affection between the Astronomer couple than these two.
Well Jason and Will looked very couply recently: very relaxed and body language in sync 💕 Now there’s a “work” couple who really get on!
Pretty sure the secs has been over for those two for a while, and she stays at her house near her family and sees Charles for functions. She goes on those spa trips also without him. A marriage on paper only, like we have here in the U.S. presidency, Will and Kate, and maybe the Danish king.
I mean, Camilla’s nephew Ben Elliot is the chairman of the Conservative Party and was once called their biggest fundraiser.
And those fans of theirs write about how they are so happy. And they take separate vacations and she has her own place. Like trying to sell the keens as so happy . And the luxury vacations while they preach about the environment. And of course Camilla did not want any of this
Well, Charles is their role model. They all figure if he can accept bags 💰 of cash from sketchy Middle Easterners, they can cruise on their yachts.
lmao they are all such trash.
Just pre-ordered Baker’s new book. Must reads for anyone that wants to know how opaque the finances really are, and how much taxpayers’ money is spent without us knowing, and how many gifts are classified as private and kept.
Oooh, Norman Baker? The writer of “And What Do You Do?” which did a great job exposing the frauds that are the duchies, how William and Kate have been grifting free vacations since before they married, and other royal financial scams? The former MP and Minister of State who really knows his stuff? That Norman Baker?
I immediately went to bookshop.org, but it’s not posted yet (or something’s posted, but I can’t tell if that’s it). Kobo (I have their ereader) says his book Royal Mint Royal Debt: More Things the Royals Don’t Want You to Know is coming out for their readers in mid-September. I pre-ordered it. Thanks for the tip!
That’s a great book, I read it a couple of years ago. Can’t wait to read this one!
Nothing of note to add to the comments except my usual admiration of Kaiser’s superb photo curation skills 🤣
As long as the plebs in the Uk tolerate this flaunting of decorum those Windsor/Wales will continue.
BUT MEGHAN WORE PANTS!
Multiple times! Oh, the humanity!
😆
Camilla ain’t pretty when she’s been crossed and Will is going to pay for this if it’s his idea of a deflection from his own yacht gate. If he and madam and the kids are on another freebie in Mustique when Will and Kate should be at a VJ commemoration then Camilla is going to retaliate by tipping the press off about their location.
When this is mentioned on twitter derangers start coming out of the woodwork attacking Meghan. Also seeing something similar to what Eden is doing, dredging up old protocol nonsense or outrage over being at Invictus either Harry and such nonsense. That’s not organic or a coincidence. It’s interesting that this yacht trip made the UK papers so quickly while the Wales and their yacht trip took ages to show up there and was sanitized by the UK press. Sometimes when you see Chuck and Cam in public they seem to be so close to bickering. She obviously would rather not hang out in the damp Highlands with her husband.
The paps can manage to get Camilla on a billionaire’s yacht in Greece but they couldn’t get Will & Kate? And the Mirror can get through a whole article on Camilla on a yacht in Greece & not even mention Will & Kate? That’s some stunning propaganda right there.
Nothing ever changes , once corrupt always corrupt .
None of them are happy though .
Such lack of imagination. Do these people not know that there are other countries, besides Greece, they can be caught sailing off on a billionaire’s freebie yacht? Or is this a terminal case of copykeening each other?
No grounds to suggest influence peddling when the yacht owners merely enjoy the Royals’ company, doubtless taking pleasure in the piano stylings of “Three Blind Mice,” reveling in the latest gossip dredged from footie forums, or watching in amazement as clever Cams solves math riddles by tapping one hoof.
Good one. “Solving math riddles by tapping one hoof.” I needed a laff. Thank you.
She reeeeaaaallly needs to practice her face in the mirror and fix her expressions. As a public figure, why look so goofy all the time?
well, my comment that Cam was wearing a lovely frock and her hair must have been freshly done, I thought was quite funny, in light of the fact that I was being very sarcastic. The frock is hideous to me, and her hair…….
Aw – It looks like she’s wearing a cute jumpsuit and, even though I don’t like her, I thought: “You go, girl!”
Talk about “royal protocol” – Can you imagine?
It is a good summer dress and she looks relaxed, but, still she shouldn’t be on that damn yacht!
Nothing cute about her.
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