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You are not my King! This is not your land! You committed genocide against out people. Senator Lidia Thorpe to Charles

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British Royal Family - King Charles III and Queen Camilla were greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princess Royal as they attend the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London, England | March 10, 2025

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INCORRECT ROYAL QUOTES | 21ST CENTURY ROYALS (2000-2099) | 12x24: “royals 2024 wrapped”

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Members of the British Royal Family depart St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham after attending the Christmas Day morning church service on 25 December 2024

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TIARA ALERT: Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom wore Queen Elizabeth II's Five Aquamarine Tiara for the Diplomatic Corps Reception at Buckingham Palace in London on 19 November 2024.

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[theroyalweekly]

Thank you to everyone involved in Trooping the Colour. Always in awe of the work that goes into putting together such an incredible afternoon 🇬🇧💂@RoyalFamily -- The Prince and Princess of Wales

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Princess Anne and King Charles III enjoying Joan Armatrading’s performance of Love and Affection during a Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day at Westminster Abbey on 10 March 2025

[royal-confessions]

“People often criticise her looks but I saw a picture of an 18 year old Camilla and thought she looked adorkable. Sure she's not the model princess/queen people expect but she's not by any means ugly.” - Submitted by Anonymous

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Favourite photo(s) of royal PDA ♡♡♡

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Queen Camilla, Patron of the London Library, attends a dinner to highlight the Library’s charitable work to support writers and widen access to its vast resources - including 1 million books available to borrow from its shelves, London, 04.02.2025

[royal-hair]

UNITED KINGDOM - Jo Hansford, Ian Carmichael, Richard Ward & Amanda Cook Tucker

And finally the Brits. As we all know there's not much hair to talk about. The only prominent british royal figure that does something with her hair is the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh on galas or other important occasion also, but mostly is Catherine the one that gives us hair to look forward to.

But before we get to her hairstylist/s, I wanna talk about those behind the impassive hairstyles of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Camilla.

Let's start with Camilla's long-serving hairdresser: the colorist Jo Hansford.

She has an homonymous salon in Mayfair, London, that opened in 1993. According to Jo, she doesn't go to the palace to work as opposed to other royal hairdressers, so is Camilla the one who goes to the salon early in the mornings to go unnoticed by curious eyes. The layout of the salon makes it impossible to sit one client next to other, so not even other customers inside see Jo working with her. The only time she went to Clarence House instead of Camilla going to her was the day of the engagement announcement.

Jo started working with Camilla in 1988, and as her specialty is coloring, she has stated that over the almost 40 years they've worked together, she has been changing Camilla's hair color bit by bit to go according to her time in life, sofening it up gradually as she gets older. And if we look at pictures in 2005 when she became the Duchess of Cornwall to her hair now 20 years later, we can see that it has gone from a more yellow tone to an almost white color.

Now from one Queen to another. Just like it happens with Beatrix, Sofia or Camilla, Queen Elizabeth's perfectly coiffed hair has been unchanged over the years, giving her and iconic look that's imprinted in everybody's mind.

The mastermind behind the Queen's look and who styled her during the better part of her 70-year reign, was Charles Martin, a really private and unknown person, who retired in the late 80s (there's not even a picture of him) and then, for the latest 23 years of her reign, Ian Charmichael was the one in charge of tending her locks.

A senior hairdresser at Trevor Sorbie in Covent Garden, London, Ian worked with Elizabeth until her very last days, going twice a week to wherever she was to shampoo and style her hair. He hasn't given any details about his work with her, nor the secret behind her symetrical hairdo (we'll talk about it later), but the hairdresser on standby, Lino Carbosiero (who took over whenever Ian wasn't available) did talk a lil bit about working with the Queen.

According to him, they don't have a hair salon at the palace like other royal families, but just a stand-up attachment to a sink in the bathroom in her private quarters where she sat back to have her hair washed, or at least in Windsor Castle they do have that setup.

Queen Elizabeth's distinctive hairstyle was designed to accomodate the tiaras when she became Queen, before that she had longer hair showcasing her curly locks like on her wedding day. The major change in the Queen's hairstyle was in the 90s when she decided to let her grey hairs take over and since then her hairstyle was even lower maintenance becaus she didn't need coloring.

If you came all this way, I'm going to tell you the secret behind the perfectly structured hairdo the Queen had: her hair was cut the same length all over her head, there wasn't a longer lock anywhere, that's why it was so rounded. That and the usage of curlers on the ends and on the hair framing her face (and loads of hairspray of course).

And now, the one you all were waiting for, Richard Ward, the hands that has been shaping Catherine's head full of hair.

Owner of the Richard Ward Hair & Metrospa in west London, Richard has been working with Catherine since even before she became part of the Royal Family. His most notable work was Catherine's hair on her wedding day in 2011, and when searching, Richard is listed as her only hairdresser, so it's safe to say that he's behind all her updos and trademark curls (him or maybe someone trusted from his team when he was unavailable). (continue reading to find out why this is crossed)

It's reported that Richard mainly does Catherine's color and that she visits his salon for that, or at least she sometimes does as it was written that she continues visiting from time to time.

As everyone that works with the British royal family, they're not as prone to talk about their work with them as it happens in other european royal families, but he did appear on tv to show how to do Catherine's signature "Chelsea blow-dry" or gave the tips to do her bouncy curls at home to the women lifestyle magazine Woman&Home If you want to check it, here's the video:

As I couldn't find a piece or interview where he specifically talks about Catherine's hair or his work with her, I decided to look at a big amount of photos of the back of her hair in different events and years to try and find something to add here. Catherine hair is on the longer side, so Richard has enough hair not to use extensions or hair pieces to do the big updos (as contrary as some haters might think) and he's not afraid to try twists or other cool accents to elevate the looks. He most likely uses hair cushions to give some of the updos the necessary base, I say some, because sometimes her updos are kinda flat, which means that there's nothing in there to make it puffier, and he likes the use of hair nets to prevent the harstyle to be destroyed with movement, but this is happening less and less over time as she's favoring more twisted updos in recent years.

As pointed out by and amazing anon, there's another hairdresser that works with Catherine: Amanda Cook Tucker. She's been working with Catherine since 2012, but she reportedly worked with other royals previously (she did William's and Harry's hair when they were younger). While Richard is said to be the one behind important days hairdos, Amanda does not lag behind and has done her hair following the births of her children, or accompanied Catherine in different tours like the South-East Asian, Norway and Sweden or the Caribbean. (cool tip: if you want no frizz in humid climate use coconut oil like she did with Catherine's hair in that very first royal tour)

According to the media, Amanda goes to the Princess of Wales' home to do her hair, cutting the ends every six or eight weeks. Below you can see the picture she posted once on her now-deleted secret Instagram account of all her tools for a royal tour, so we can get a better picture of all what's needed to style one of the most famous royal manes.

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And with this, the Royal Hairdressers series come to an end. Hope you liked it!

xxx L

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British Royal Family - Royal Tiaras worn during the Qatari State Banquet at the Buckingham Palace in London, England | December 03, 2024

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HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY TO THE LITTLE KING, HRH PRINCE GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS OF WALES (B. 22 July 2013) ♡

[tiaramania]

TIARA ALERT: Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom wore Queen Alexandra's Kokoshnik Tiara for the banquet during the state visit from Qatar at Buckingham Palace in London on 3 December 2024.

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Current royal family/portrait orders:

Norway: King Harald V's Royal Family Order (as worn by Queen Sonja)

Sweden: King Carl XVI Gustaf's Portrait Order (as worn by Crown Princess Victoria)

Denmark: King Frederik X's Portrait Order (as worn by Queen Mary)

UK: King Charles III's Royal Family Order (as worn by Queen Camilla)