“I’d like Catherine to do it”

Kate Middleton usually turns her camera to her three children, but now she has a new subject: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

The photo appears on the new cover of the British magazine Life in the countryside, which Camilla, who will mark her 75th birthday on July 17, guest edits. The picture was taken by Kate, 40, as Camilla relaxed in the garden of her Raymill home in Wiltshire.

In the portrait, Camilla wears a blue-white floral dress and holds a basket full of geraniums, which are ready to be planted. The keen gardener – who has been married to Kate’s father-in-law Prince Charles for 17 years – looks content doing the pastime he loves.

A second image, showing Camilla walking through some forget-me-nots in Raymill’s garden, appears in the commemorative edition, which Camilla is editing to mark her 75th birthday and 125th anniversary of the magazine. The magazine will appear on July 13.

Photographed by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge Country Life cover

Conformable telegraphwhen it came time to discuss the cover image, Country Life editor Mark Hedges asked Camilla if she had any thoughts.

“She immediately said, ‘Oh, I’d love for Catherine to do it,'” Hedges said.

“I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brains trying to think of a professional photographer named Catherine.

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“Then suddenly I understood what he meant – one of the most amazing things that could happen,” he continued.

“I found it to be one of the easier things to shake off.”

A behind-the-scenes photo of Kate taking Camilla’s photo was also shared on the Duchess of Cornwall’s Instagram. Dressed casually in jeans and sneakers, the keen photographer is seen expertly snapping her shot.

Life in the countryside editor-in-chief Mark Hedges said in a statement that the magazine was “delighted” by the images.

“We understand that this is the first time that the Duchess of Cambridge has taken an official portrait of the Duchess of Cornwall for a magazine,” said Hedges, “and we are honored to be chosen to be the first to publish this beautiful photograph. .”

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He added: “The photographs are gorgeous and we would be delighted to offer the Duchess of Cambridge another commission!”

Chris Jackson – WPA Pool/Getty Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles at the No Time to Die premiere in September 2021.

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Camilla is the third royal to guest edit the magazine, after Prince Charles, who did so to mark her 65th birthday in 2013 and her 70th in 2018, which was the best-selling issue of all time. In 2020, Princess Anne took the helm of the July 29 issue to commemorate the 70th anniversary.