Queen Camilla is presented with a Barbie in her likeness at Buckingham Palace.Photo:Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images (2)
Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images (2)
Queen Camillais now a Barbie girl.
During Tuesday’s Women of the World reception at Buckingham Palace, Queen Camilla, 75, was presented with a one-of-a-king Barbie doll made in her likeness, even dressed in a replica of her elegant ensemble: a stunning blue Fiona Clare dress paired with an Amanda Wakeley coat.
“Thank you very, very much indeed. It’s brilliant,” Queen Camilla said. “You’ve taken about 50 years off my life.”
She added, “We should all have a Barbie!”
Queen Camilla is presented with a Barbie in her likeness at Buckingham Palace on March 12, 2024 in London, England.Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Queen Camilla is presented with a Barbie alongside the Queen Mathilde of Belgium and members of Mattel.Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images
“I believe they represented hope to the women who threw them – hope that, in the future, they would not be victims of their history, nor of the social and economic forces that were ranged against gender equality,” Camilla said, holding up the stones. “Above all, they represented the hope that it was possible.”
She continued, “Today, 110 years later, you have been invited into Buckingham Palace because you too represent hope for women in the present and in the future.”
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Mattel designs Barbie replic doll of Queen Camilla.Paul Grover - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Queen Camilla isn’t the first royal to be transformed into a doll form.
In April 2022,Queen Elizabethbecame a Barbie in honor of her 96th birthday and Platinum Jubilee, which celebrated her historic 70 years on the throne.
source: people.com
