The Duchess of Cornwall current events 12: July 2008-

[kimebear]

Posts regarding off topic opinions of Camilla have been moved to: Camilla & Charles: How has your opinion changed since the wedding?

[BellaFay]

Originally Posted by seajat

You'd think she could at least try to keep up with the Queen, who is 20+ years older than her. There are hundreds of charities that are turned down by other royals because they are too busy. She could easily pick up some of these charities that are desperate for a royal patron.

Here's the breakdown of the stats:

According to official Palace Court and Social records, Camilla carried out 137 domestic engagements and helped Charles on four foreign visits, while she pulled out of one Middle East tour because aides said she found it "too hot".
Last year, the Queen carried out 425 engagements and Prince Charles 498, thus making the Princess Royal as the hardest working royal with 613 official jobs and appointments.
However, many of Camilla's engagements were limited to attending family parties, joint visits with Charles, or receiving guests. In fact, one listed job was simply getting on a plane on the way to a trip overseas.

I'm very suspicious of these stats. In 2007 Camilla performed 220 engagements (including accompanying Prince Charles) & it seems unlikely that she would have done fewer this year. So it seems most likely this is a figure for solo domestic engagements & you can probably add at least another 100 for those she shares with Prince Charles. Whoever put out/made up? these statistics is also geographically ignorant as they seem to think that Indonesia (the country Camilla didn't visit) is in the Middle East not the Far East!! They also misquote Mark Bolland. He never stated that Camilla was the laziest woman in the country. In the his interview with the Guardian he stated that a relative of Camilla's claimed that was the case. As her relatives at the time included her first husband's sister who had made a living out of making bitchy comments about Camilla to the media for the previous 10 years. I think the claim should be taken with a large pinch of salt.

[scooter]

If you google 'Duchess of Cornwall number of engagements' you will see many articles on the subject. I posted 4 of them, but the links were dead. They were all on the 1st page or 2 that google brought up.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by scooter

If you google 'Duchess of Cornwall number of engagements' you will see many articles on the subject. I posted 4 of them, but the links were dead. They were all on the 1st page or 2 that google brought up.

All of the articles you linked to, were old articles, that is why every one of them said that the article had been archived.

[Skydragon]

The Duchess of Cornwall is visiting a group of historic buildings successfully restored by locals.
Camilla will be given a guided tour of the cottages, which are located near Balmoral Castle, the Royal Family's Scottish estate

Camilla tours historic cottages - Falkirk Herald

The Duchess of Cornwall looked on as a charity fundraiser had his first shave in a year in Royal Deeside

icLanarkshire - Camilla sees charity beard shaved

[iceflower]

Here are some pics of her visit last week

The Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to a group of historic
buildings near Balmoral Castle the Royal Family's Scottish
estate in Aberdeenshire, January 15, 2009:

** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** Pic 5 **


And here are some nice pics from today :

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall speaks with Dame Trott from pantomime
Jack and the Beanstalk, played by Chris Harris, who also directs the
panto, during a visit to the Theatre Royal in Bath on January 20, 2009
in Bath, England.

** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 ** Pic 5 **
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[Skydragon]

Thank you for all the pictures iceflower, they are much appreciated. I thought Camilla looked really smart in the first picture from last weeks visit and incredibly happy in the second set.

[chaimae]

thanks a lot iceflower for the pictures !
i would say "welcome back madam , we really miss you !
i hope you had a nice holidays !"
she looks great in all the pic specialy in the first pictures !

[iceflower]

You are morst welcome, Sydragon and chaimae

Here are some more pics of Camilla's arrival at the theatre in Bath:

** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 **

[QUEENECE29]

She's behind you, Camilla
She's behind you, Camilla | The Sun |News|Royals

[anabell]

Camilla,Duchess of Cornwall Visiting Bernardo's Village Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Visiting Barnardo's Village - Pictures - Zimbio

[iceflower]

Thanks for posting that great gallery, anabell

what it does not contain are the following pics: Camilla
unveiling a very special bust - I would love to know what
she said or meant with that gesture in the last pic

** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 **

[georgiea]

Originally Posted by anabell

Camilla,Duchess of Cornwall Visiting Bernardo's Village Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Visiting Barnardo's Village - Pictures - Zimbio

Camilla is wearing what I think are Tahitian black pearl earrings. Boy, would I like to see a necklace with them.

[Roslyn]

Originally Posted by iceflower

Camilla unveiling a very special bust - I would love to know what
she said or meant with that gesture in the last pic

I think it's fairly safe to assume she wasn't telling mother-in-law jokes!

Thank you iceflower, anabell, QUEENECE29 & SKydragon for the new pics and articles. They are all much appreciated.

[muriel]

Great to see Camilla out and about again doing engagements.

[Incas]

from Hello.com: The Duchess of Cornwall unveils Queen bust on Barnardo's visit

[BeatrixFan]

I could scream! Camilla was just up the road in Romford a few days back and I missed her! To make it worse, I did a two week cover stint last year on Bedrock radio. Grrrr!!

[BeatrixFan]

A rare treat;

YouTube - The Queen and Duchess of Cornwall watching changing of the guard at Windsor

[wbenson]

That's my video! And yes, it was a rare (and completely surprising) treat.

[BeatrixFan]

A small world! Well, I'm truly amazed. Thankyou so much for capturing this, it really made my day.