During Queen Camilla’s return to royal duty following the Easter break, eagle-eyed fans spotted a glaring error at Buckingham Palace.
A ‘mistake’ in the tableware at the Palace had fans gossiping about whether items had been updated to reflect King Charles’s current reign.
Spotting a glass of water on the table in a meeting room in front of Queen Camilla, a fan wrote: “I notice the water glasses used at Buckingham Palace today for Queen Camilla’s @safelives_ meeting have Queen Elizabeth II’s cypher on them.”
The glasses placed on the table during Camilla’s meeting were designed with ‘E R’ for Elizabeth Regina, Latin for Queen, and her regional number ‘II’ fitting between the two letters.
The King’s royal cypher was selected by His Majesty from a series of designs prepared by The College of Arms and will be slowly phased into use.
The cypher bears the monogram of the monarch, which is made up of the first initial of their name, in Charles’s case, “C” and the letter “R”. The cypher, a visual identity for the new reign, replaces the “E II R” of Queen Elizabeth II.
It also incorporates the symbols showing Charles to be the third King to bear his regnal name and a crown hovers above the letters in the new design.
Other changes to mark the reign of the King will appear mid-2024, including bank notes featuring a portrait of the King, and new stamps, once current stocks of stamps are exhausted.
Queen Camilla, 76, was hosting young pioneers from the charity, SafeLives, to discuss how violence and abuse in the home affects younger people.
In the UK, over 105,000 children live in households where there is a high-risk domestic abuse and 78 percent of children living in domestic abuse households are directly harmed by the perpetrator of the abuse, in addition to the harm caused by witnessing the abuse of others.
SafeLives campaigns to end domestic abuse and in 2020 Camilla became the patron of the organisation which recognises children and young people as victims in their own right.
Queen Camilla has long been a prominent voice in calling for support for victims of domestic violence, a cause she has continued to champion since she became Queen.
