King Charles & Queen Camilla’s Official Portraits Just Got a Major Upgrade

Remember earlier this year when King Charles and Queen Camilla dramatically unveiled their official portraits. Well, they’ve officially moved in to Buckingham Palace’s Throne Room. On July 31, the Palace posted a behind-the-scenes moment of the portraits being hung in their new royal digs, complete with a little art history 101 for those of us who didn’t major in British monarch trivia.

“State portraits are typically grand, full-length portraits that become the defining image of the new monarch,” said Anna Reynolds, Surveyor of The King’s Pictures, in the clip. She also dropped a fun fact: King George III was so into his own portrait (yes, the one with the yellow coronation get-up) that he asked artist Allan Ramsay to make over 150 copies of it to ship around the world.

As for the current royal couple, King Charles’s portrait shows him in full military dress with the iconic red Robe of State and the Imperial State Crown makes a cameo, casually perched nearby. Queen Camilla wears her custom Bruce Oldfield coronation gown, which features embroidered national flowers and a nod to her two rescue pups.

In their caption, the Palace wrote, “Earlier this year the new State Portraits of The King and Queen were hung in their permanent home in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace,” and encouraged fans to check them out during the Palace’s summer opening.

Quick refresher: the portraits were first revealed on May 6 at the National Gallery’s Central Hall, where the royal couple themselves pulled back the black tarps in full dramatic flair. King Charles personally picked artist Peter Kuhfeld for his portrait, while Queen Camilla chose Paul S. Benney, both longtime collaborators.

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