{"id":45982,"date":"2025-04-24T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45982\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:11:09","slug":"as-an-exclusive-painting-of-king-charles-and-queen-camilla-graces-the-cover-of-tatler-we-reveal-a-history-of-his-majesty-in-portraiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/45982\/","title":{"rendered":"As an exclusive painting of King Charles and Queen Camilla graces the cover of Tatler, we reveal a history of His Majesty in portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years later, in 1988, Tom Wood would paint the then-Prince Charles, in what Sir Roy Strong, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery, once declared \u2018the best portrait I\u2019ve ever seen\u2019 of the King. Charles himself commissioned Wood, having made an unexpected visit to one of the artist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/exhibitions\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhibitions<\/a>. Impressed, the Prince of Wales told Wood: \u2018you must do one of me\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Wood declined, knowing that the strict protocols of a royal visit would compromise his artistic instincts. The Palace waived tradition, and the artist was invited for a series of sittings at Highgrove, where he got to know Charles, then 40 years old, on a more personal level: sitting down for tea; meeting Princess Diana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/prince-william\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/prince-harry\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>; and, perhaps most significantly, walking around the then-Prince\u2019s beloved garden, which inspired the composition of the painting.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram content<\/p>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7HYh9NoZYp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd hwrguO hrZZO\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<p>The Prince sits, his suit dappled by light from the surrounding foliage, with head tilted towards the viewer, as if asking a question or considering a response. The trees and branches surrounding the Prince gesture towards his love of horticulture and his passion for environmentalism, while an urn symbolises his passion for classical architecture. There are also two, more shadowy, faces in the portrait, a reference to the three-headed portrait of King Charles I that the now-King grew up studying in Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight years later, in 1988, Tom Wood would paint the then-Prince Charles, in what Sir Roy Strong, former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519,448,22392,4715],"class_list":{"0":"post-45982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family","14":"tag-royals","15":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","16":"tag-web"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114391697571018468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}