King Charles and Queen Camilla release 2025 Christmas card
King Charles and Queen Camilla have released official Christmas cards featuring their 20th wedding anniversary portraits.
The royal couple were photographed earlier this year standing side by side in the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky, the British ambassador’s residence in Rome, with the Queen’s arm linked with the King’s.
The card is framed in a dark red frame with a message printed in the same color on the opposite side that reads “Wishing You a Merry Christmas and New Year.”
The couple celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their marriage during their official visit to Italy on April 9 and spent the anniversary evening as guests of honor at a grand banquet.
In the photo, taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson, Camilla wears a white and beige coat dress and lily of the valley brooch by Anna Valentine; The King wears a blue pinstripe suit, a gray tie and a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket.
Each year the King and Queen send hundreds of Christmas cards to family, friends, world leaders, diplomats, charities and organisations.
Charles is set to welcome the wider royal family on Christmas Day, with royal festivities usually taking place at Sandringham in Norfolk.
The Prince of Wales announced last year that he spent a day with 45 members of his family “all in the same room”.
But the guest list includes Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson; The former prince was exiled from the royal family and stripped of his titles due to his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The royal family usually walks to church on Christmas morning and enjoys a traditional roast turkey with all the trimmings before sitting down to watch the King’s Christmas broadcast on television.
Last year, Charles used his Christmas speech to pay tribute to the “selfless” doctors and nurses who gave him and the Princess of Wales “strength, care and comfort” during their cancer treatment.
King and Camilla have been busy working together over the past year, despite Charles still being treated for the disease.
They traveled to Canada, met with the Pope at the Vatican and hosted three state visits in Windsor: France with President Emmanuel Macron, the United States with President Donald Trump, and then last week by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
For the first time in nearly 40 years, there are three official visits to the UK in one year.
