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King Charles III's wife, Queen Consort Camilla, opted retired of a centuries-long royal contented by choosing to person "Queen's Companions" arsenic opposed to ladies-in-waiting. Find retired what this means.
What's Next for King Charles III & Queen Consort Camilla?
Queen Consort Camilla is making immoderate royal changes during her hubby King Charles III's reign.
The 75-year-old has opted not to person ladies-in-waiting and volition name six women arsenic "Queen's Companions" instead, a spokesperson for the Buckingham Palace confirmed to NBC News.
In an effort to modernize the position, the relation of "Queen's Companion" volition beryllium more informal compared to erstwhile duties performed by ladies-in-waiting. This means the companions—a portion of Camilla's halfway squad successful summation to her backstage caput and lawman backstage secretary—will have less administrative responsibilities and be less events with the Queen Consort than Queen Elizabeth II's ladies-in-waiting did with the precocious monarch.
The Palace spokesperson confirmed that the caller radical volition beryllium comprised of Camilla's longtime friends Sarah Troughton, Lady Katharine Brooke, Baroness Carlyn Chisholm, Lady Sarah Keswick, Fiona, the Marchioness of Lansdowne and Jane von Westenholz, whose daughter introduced Prince Harry to now-wife Meghan Markle.
As for Queen Elizabeth's erstwhile ladies-in-waiting, 3 women volition stay portion of the King's household arsenic "Ladies of the House" and assistance His Majesty big events astatine Buckingham Palace, according to the spokesperson. Meanwhile, the different 2 ladies-in-waiting person chosen to discontinue from nationalist life.
The royal alteration comes 2 months aft Queen Elizabeth's passing astatine the property of 96 and the succession of King Charles, 74. When Charles ascended to the throne, Camilla—formerly known arsenic the Duchess of Cornwall—became Queen Consort, a rubric Queen Elizabeth antecedently said was her "sincere wish" that her daughter-in-law would take upon her death.
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In September, royal expert Jonathan Sacerdoti told E! News that the rubric was a motion of Queen Elizabeth's assurance successful Camilla.
"It's truly a awesome of acceptance," helium said. "She's 1 of the hardest moving members of the moving royal family, they say, and she's championed causes that are important to people."
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