Queen Camilla is finally getting the crown — and eagle-eyed viewers noticed that two companions walking behind her at the coronation of King Charles III are the spitting image of her.
Many fans even joked that the two ladies were Camilla’s “back ups.”
“Nice they’ve got two Emergency Camillas prepared in case anything happens to the first one,” one viewer tweeted.
“When a man marries his mistress….,” someone quipped in response.
“Spare – the sequel,” another joked, referring to Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir “Spare.”
“He kept his word. He made his mistress his queen lol,” one commenter snarked.
“Are the two women behind Camilla her decoys, like what Padme had?” another tweeted, comparing the Queen to the fictional “Star Wars” character Padmé Amidala. “As some have said, the whole thing is very Phantom Menace!”
“Can’t deny it’s always good to have a couple of spares,” a fan chimed in.
Though it may look like the women are Camilla clones, the ladies in attendance are actually her sister Annabel Elliot and longtime friend and Queen’s companion Lady Lansdowne.
The 75-year-old was also accompanied by her grandsons Gus Lopes, Louis Lopes, and Freddy Parker Bowles, as well as her grand-nephew Arthur Elliot.
At Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953, she had six maids of honor who assisted her in the ceremony.
Camilla’s decision to forgo maids of honor and instead just have two ladies with her lines up with her decision to have “Queen’s companions” rather than ladies-in-waiting.
“Replacing the role of lady-in-waiting will end a feature of court life going back to the middle ages, with such close personal helpers of a Queen often coming from aristocratic families and, over the centuries, sometimes caught up in court intrigue,” the BBC reported in November.
The six Queen’s companions include Jane von Westenholz, Lady Katharine Brooke, Sarah Troughton, Lady Sarah Keswick, Baroness Chisholm and the Marchioness of Lansdowne — one of the ladies in attendance today.
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