Queen Elizabeth II's Official Birthday Celebration
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10678900ar)
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II official birthday celebration, Windsor, UK - 13 Jun 2020
Because Trooping the Color was cancelled this year due to coronavirus, they held a tiny parade for the Queen and only the Queen to mark her birthday in Windsor on Saturday. Given the BLM protests in London over this weekend, it feels bizarre that this even happened; to have it occur simultaneously with massive human rights protests is tone-deaf at best to me. It is also disappointing to me that so far, beyond a post from Heads Together, none of the world's active royals that I have seen had said anything about what looks like a watershed global human rights moment.
Chaz and Camz
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Wire/Shutterstock (10682197z)
Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall wave goodbye to front line key workers who who have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic during a visit to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall visit to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, UK - 16 Jun 2020
Chaz and Cams are out finally, and seem quite happy about it. Here, they're bidding farewell to "frontline key workers who who have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic during a visit to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital." I have to say, I've thought more lately than ever before if whether or not the British monarchy will continue once the Queen dies. I have more doubts than I used to? Not that I, in any way, know what I am talking about.
French President Emmanuel Macron
MAXPPP OUT
Mandatory Credit: Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10683946ae)
Britain's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (L), Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (C) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) after a ceremony to present the Legion d'Honneur - France's highest distinction - to London, for services during WW2 at Carlton Gardens in central London, Britain, 18 June 2020. French President Macron is in London to mark the 80th anniversary of former French president Charles de Gaulle's appeal to French people to resist the Nazi occupation during World War II.
French President Emmanuel Macron in London, United Kingdom - 18 Jun 2020
Camz got to go dig out one of her massive hats out of the back of the cupboard because apparently Macron is in London to "present the Legion d'Honneur - France's highest distinction - to London, for services during WW2 [and]...to mark the 80th anniversary of former French president Charles de Gaulle's appeal to French people to resist the Nazi occupation during World War II." Resisting Nazis seems like a very pertinent message!
Prince William
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Wire/Shutterstock (10682198d)
Prince William places a thermometer in his ear to check his temperature as he arrives at the Ambulance Station in King's Lynn, Norfolk, to meet staff from the England Ambulance Service Trust.
Prince William visit to King's Lynn Ambulance Station, Norfolk, UK - 16 Jun 2020
Well. I guess now I own a photo of Wills sticking a thermometer in his ear to make sure he doesn't have a temperature because we're in a global fatal pandemic.
Wills
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Victoria Jones/PA Wire/Shutterstock (10682198o)
Prince William meets paramedic staff, maintaining social distancing, from the East of England Ambulance Service Trust during a visit to the Ambulance Station in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Prince William visit to King's Lynn Ambulance Station, Norfolk, UK - 16 Jun 2020
He is meeting with "paramedic staff, maintaining social distancing, from the East of England Ambulance Service Trust during a visit to the Ambulance Station in King's Lynn, Norfolk." That seems on brand.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Wire/Shutterstock (10684708ab)
Prince William uses contactless payment to pay owner Teresa Brandon for his purchases during a visit to Smiths the Bakers, in the High Street in King's Lynn, Norfolk
Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge visit to Norfolk, UK - Jun 2020
He and Kate also went out today to, I guess, encourage people to go spend money at local small business. You all know how I feel about masks so I will not belabor it here but please know that I did think it. Wills looks like he's thinking, "I've never BOUGHT anything before, how does this work?!" (He's actually just trying to figure out contactless payment.)
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Aaron Chown/PA Wire/Shutterstock (10684708e)
Catherine Duchess of Cambridge talks to Martin and Jennie Turner, owners of the Fakenham Garden Centre in Norfolk, during her first public engagement since lockdown. The garden centre is near her Anmer Hall home and, as a keen gardener, the Duchess wanted to hear how the Covid-19 pandemic had affected the family-run independent business, which first opened in 1984.
Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge visit to Norfolk, UK - Jun 2020
While he was doing that, Kate went over to Fakenham Garden Centre: "The garden centre is near her Anmer Hall home and, as a keen gardener, the Duchess wanted to hear how the Covid-19 pandemic had affected the family-run independent business, which first opened in 1984." This whole outfit is VERY on-brand for Kate.
Sophie Wessex
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10682513b)
HRH Sophie Countess of Wessex visited Childline's headquarters to thank staff and volunteers for their dedication during the pandemic.
Sophie Countess of Wessex joins a counselling shift at Childline, NSPCC HQ, London, UK - 17 Jun 2020
And Sophie "visited Childline's headquarters to thank staff and volunteers for their dedication during the pandemic." Is she wearing camo? (The woman she's speaking to is wearing a fab dress, though.)
Queen Mathilde visits Groeningemuseum
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock (10681270br)
Queen Mathilde of Belgium pictured during a royal visit to 'Van Eyck in Bruges' exposition at the Groeningemuseum museum in Brugge
Queen Mathilde visit to Groeningemuseum museum, Bruges, Belgium - 16 Jun 2020
Well, I think we all knew the mask/dress coordination was coming. I think it honestly looks pretty great?
Queen Maxima at Music Agreement
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10681674l)
Queen Maxima is present at the signing of the Hoeksche Waard Music Agreement. An initchative of Meer Muziek in de Klas that aims to achieve structural music education for all 1.6 million primary school children in the Netherlands.
Queen Maxima at Music Agreement for children signing, Hoeksche Waard, Netherlands - 16 Jun 2020
I know the Dutch aren't doing the mask thing -- please wear masks, friends! -- but I actually feel like of all people, Maxima would get into coordinating masks with her looks. Anyway here she is wistfully watching a child play an accordian.
Queen Maxima at Music Agreement
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10681674a)
Queen Maxima is present at the signing of the Hoeksche Waard Music Agreement. An initchative of Meer Muziek in de Klas that aims to achieve structural music education for all 1.6 million primary school children in the Netherlands.
Queen Maxima at Music Agreement for children signing, Hoeksche Waard, Netherlands - 16 Jun 2020
This outfit is wrinkly, but cute -- and she's never met a GIANT BOW she doesn't love.
King Felipe and Queen Letizia
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Casa de S M el Rey/DYDPPA/POOL/Shutterstock (10680657c)
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia begin the visit in the Royal Cabinet of Natural History created by Carlos III and ended in the laboratories of Molecular Systematics.
Spanish Royals visit the Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain - 15 Jun 2020
I enjoy both of these patterns. (They're in the Royal Cabinet of Natural History at the the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, which sounds interesting.)
King Felipe and Queen Letizia
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10678067g)
King Felipe VI of Spain, Queen Letizia of Spain visit Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid at Matadero Facilities
Spanish Royals visit the Center for Contemporary Creation Matadero, Madrid, Spain - 12 Jun 2020
And this is the "Center for Contemporary Creation, Matadero Madrid," which as I understand it is a large arts center in a former slaughterhouse? It seems cool. It don't know what this is, but it's VERY visually interesting.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Shutterstock (10684231f)
King Felipe VI of Spain, Queen Letizia of Spain the launch of the 'Spain For Sure' campaign at The Prado Museum o
Spanish Royals at the launch of 'Spain For Sure' campaign, Madrid, Spain - 18 Jun 2020
And this "the launch of the 'Spain For Sure' campaign at The Prado Museum." It's an advertising campaign to attract tourists to Spain this summer. I'D LOVE TO GO TO SPAIN THIS SUMMER YOU GUYS. But do you really want Americans? I don't know if I think you should let us in! I'm being totally serious.
