Queen Camilla: I'm glad to wear Queen Elizabeth Brooches as it belongs to me
Queen Camilla is sparkling in something sentimental from Queen Elizabeth's collection at the start of the royal tour of Australia and Samoa.
On Oct. 18, King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in Sydney to kick off the nine-day trip which is significant, as it marks both their first tour of a Commonwealth realm of his reign and their longest-haul trip following the King's cancer diagnosis in February. The King, 75, and Queen, 77, seemed to be in good spirits as they stepped off the plane around 8:30 p.m. local time, where she wore the Australian Wattle Brooch.
Australia's national flower is the Golden Wattle, and the late Queen Elizabeth received what's now known as the Australian Wattle Brooch as a gift from the government and people of Australia during her Commonwealth tour of 1954, two years after her sudden accession to the throne at age 25. The pin, commissioned by William Drummond & Co., was designed to look like the spray of a wattle and features white and yellow diamonds...Read more

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