The King and Queen are “polar opposites,” but make “an extraordinary team,” in accordance with two of Her Majesty’s closest confidantes.
In a brand new documentary about King Charles’s Coronation Year, Camilla’s sister Annabel Elliot says of the royal couple: “They’re yin and yang, really, they really are polar opposites, but I think it works brilliantly.”
She provides: “She is his rock and I can’t actually emphasise that enough. She’s somebody who is completely loyal and she isn’t somebody who has huge highs and lows.
“He brings to her every thing… he has such a information and curiosity in so many various issues, which she wouldn’t actually have been open to if she hadn’t met him.”
Elsewhere, the Queen’s close friend and Companion of Honour Lady Lansdowne describes her and the King as “an extraordinary workforce,” adding: “Whether they’ve type of needed to battle to get there, or whether or not it is simply because they have been by quite a bit collectively and it is made them have a extremely sturdy bond.”
“They’re each enormous walkers,” says Annabel. “Very match, each of them. Her and her mad canines.”
The King and Queen, wearing jeans, are seen on a walk with her rescue dog Beth in the grounds of Birkhall, their private home near Balmoral, where she reveals how the Jack Russell terrier ate a mouse last time she was there.
“Horrible little creature, reappeared a bit later,” she says.
Filmed over the summer season, the footage is a part of a feature-length documentary by Oxford Films.
Directed by royal writer Robert Hardman and narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, it follows the King and Queen within the months main as much as and following their historic coronation at Westminster Abbey.
Charles III: The Coronation Year airs on Tuesday 26 December at 6.50pm BBC One & iPlayer
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