


King Charles III’s wife was officially called Queen Camilla for the first time on invitations from Buckingham Palace for the monarch’s coronation next month.
Before the invitations were unveiled Tuesday, Camilla had been titled queen consort.
The invite to the king’s coronation on May 6 is expected to be delivered to more than 2,000 guests.
Other details released by the palace confirmed there will be eight young pages of honor — four each for Charles and Camilla — that are family friends or close relatives, including 9-year-old Prince George, who is second in line to the throne and will be a page for his grandfather.
Three of the queen’s grandchildren, whose parents are children from her first marriage, will also be pages.
The eight youngsters will accompany the majesties at the grand ceremony and join the procession through the nave of London’s Westminster Abbey.
Charles and Camilla met well before he married Princess Diana in 1981 and remained close during the acrimonious marriage that officially ended in divorce in 1996.
Charles and Camilla married in a civil ceremony in 2005.
Camilla faced harsh criticism for her role in Charles and the late Diana’s failed marriage, but has since won over much of the British public with her warmth and down-to-earth humor.
Before Queen Elizabeth II died last year, she issued a statement in early 2022 saying she hoped Camilla would be known as “queen consort” when Charles was crowned king.
Camilla will be crowned alongside her husband at Westminster Abbey during the service that is expected to be attended by many heads of states, though President Joe Biden is not attending. Instead, First Lady Jill Biden will travel for the coronation, the 46th president told King Charles in a Tuesday phone call.
A photo of the coronation invitation shows that it features the ancient motif of the Green Man as an ode to the monarch’s record of supporting conservation and environmental protection. The Green Man is “an ancient figure from British folklore symbolic of spring and rebirth, to celebrate the new reign,” the palace said.
The artwork was designed by heraldic artist Andrew Jamieson and also has flowers that will appear in groupings of three, which is a nod to the king being the third monarch to be called Charles.
The invite, which will be printed on a recycled card, will also feature a lion, a unicorn and a boar, taken from the royal couple’s coats of arms.
With Post wires