King Charles and Queen Camilla's 2024 Christmas Card Revealed

Mar. 15, 2025

King Charles and Queen Camilla; the royal couple’s 2024 Christmas card.Photo:Getty;Handout/Millie Pilkington/Buckingham Palace via Getty

Getty;Handout/Millie Pilkington/Buckingham Palace via Getty

King CharlesandQueen Camillaare wishing everyone a happy Christmas.

King Charles and Queen Camilla’s 2024 Christmas card.Handout/Millie Pilkington/Buckingham Palace via Getty

Handout/Millie Pilkington/Buckingham Palace via Getty

The portrait was taken to mark the first anniversary of their coronation in May 2023, and showed the Queen holding her husband’s arm as he looked at her with love. The snap was captured in the Buckingham Palace garden on April 10, the day after the royal couple’s19th wedding anniversary.

While that shot marked the first time an image of King Charles and Queen Camilla was credited to Pilkington, they are hardly her first royal subjects.Kate MiddletonandPrince Williamand tapped Pilkington as theirprivate photographerfor their wedding in 2011, and have entrusted her in the years that followed to take the birthday portraits of their children,Prince George, 11Princess Charlotte, 9,  andPrince Louis, 6. Pilkington also got behind the camera for thesweet pictures of William and his kidsthat were released for Father’s Day in 2023.

The King and Queen led the way as the first British royals to issue an official Christmas picture for the holiday season, closing a year unlike any other. It was announced earlier this year that King Charles and Princess Kate, 42, were each receiving treatment for cancer, leading both to reduce some of their royal duties (the King between February and late April, and Princess Kate for most of the year) to focus on their health.

In a candid reflection in November, Prince William, 42, called the year “brutal” and “probably been the hardest in my life.” His wife seeminglyechoed the sentimentat herTogether at Christmascarol service on Dec. 6, saying, “I didn’t know this year was going to be the year that I’ve just had.”

“The unplanned, exactly,” the Princess of Wales repeated. “But I think lots of people this year have had such challenging times.”

Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis and Kate Middleton at the Together at Christmas concert at Westminster Abbey on Dec. 6, 2024.Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty

Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty

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King Charles and Queen Camilladidn’t appearat Princess Kate’s Together at Christmas carol service, where they technically would have overshadowed her as the most senior royals in the order of precedence. The Queen is alsocontinuing to recuperatefrom achest infectionthat the palace announced she had on Nov. 5.

However, the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected tocelebrate Chrtismaswith the King at Sandringham in a few weeks, convening the family and continuing tradition at their private home in the Norfolk countryside.

Step inside the royals' holiday traditions with PEOPLE’s Special Edition:Christmas at the Palace: A Royal Family Album.

source: people.com