Buckingham Palace releases pre-coronation photos of Charles and Camilla

LONDON – Buckingham Palace published three new photographs of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla on Friday, ahead of

the monarch’s coronation on May 6.

The photos were taken in the palace in March by society photographer Hugo Burnand, who was the official photographer for the weddings of then Prince Charles and Ms Camilla Parker-Bowles in 2005, and of Prince William and Ms Kate Middleton – now the Prince and Princess of Wales – in 2011.

The King and Queen Consort appear in the new photographs sitting in front of a state portrait of King George V, who reigned from 1910 until 1936 and was the great-grandfather of King Charles.

The release of the photographs forms part of

the palace’s stream of media events ahead of the coronation

in London’s Westminster Abbey. REUTERS