KING Charles and Queen Camilla have unveiled a touching Christmas card showing the pair beaming side by side.
The picture, alongside a simple Happy Christmas and New Year message, was first released by the couple in celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary, earlier this year.
King Charles is dressed in a blue pinstripe suit in the photo taken by Royal Photographer Chris Jackson.
While Queen Camilla is wearing a white and beige coat dress by Anna Valentine, paired with a Lily of the Valley brooch.
The photo was on the grounds of Villa Wolkonsky in Rome, the official residence of the UK’s ambassador to Italy, Lord Llewellyn.
The Christmas card, released to the public on December 6, is set on white cardboard with the photograph framed in a festive red.
The King and Queen send out hundreds of Christmas cards each year to family, friends, world leaders, diplomats, charities and organisations.
Charles will be preparing to host the wider royal family on Christmas Day, with the royal festivities usually taking place at Sandringham in Norfolk.
Last year, the Prince of Wales divulged he was spending the day with 45 members of his family “all in one room”.
Christmas festivities are in full swing for the royal family, as Princess Kate and Prince William led their children in song at Kate’s annual star-studded Christmas carol concert.
The stunning princess, 43, was joined by her family on Friday evening, for Kate’s fifth annual carol service at Westminster Abbey.
She arrived at the abbey without her family and before the service began to meet some of the stars performing or giving readings, including Hollywood actors Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor and singer Katie Melua.
Her children George, Charlotte and Louis – all wearing, alongside dad William, matching blue – got into the festive spirit of togetherness, meanwhile, by leaving their names on a symbolic tree.
The smartly dressed trio hung loops of red paper bearing their handwritten names on a “Connection Tree”.
It represents togetherness and the importance of moments of connection, and was covered with paper chains created as each guest left a loop with their name.
The royal children were later pictured holding candles with the rest of the churchgoers during the service.
Among the congregation were Kate’s parents Carole and Michael Middleton, her brother James Middleton and wife Alizee Thevenet, Zara and Mike Tindall, the Duchess of Edinburgh and Prince Michael of Kent who arrived in a wheelchair.
Celebrity chef Dame Mary Berry, who created a Christmas wreath on display in the abbey, was also among the guests alongside members of the Lionesses and Red Roses.
Kate expressed her appreciation to the performers when they met before the service started and she thanked Winslet and Ejiofor, who both later gave readings, and told Cornish folk singers Fisherman’s Friends: “I’m sure you’ll be brilliant, thank you so much.”
The Princess added: “It’s a busy time I know for everybody.”
It was the first time the Wales family have been seen together in public since their appearance at Trooping the Colour, the King’s birthday parade, in June.
