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Inside the court of Queen Camilla as she turns 77: From her sister and children to her loyal 'Companions' (plus one or two celebrity friends) - and all have rallied around since Charles' and Kate's cancer diagnoses
Since the start of the year, they have been more important to the Queen than ever.
Camilla's close circle of family and friends includes her sister Annabel Elliot, children Tom and Laura and official 'Companion' Sarah Troughton.
They have rallied around Her Majesty amid the cancer diagnoses of both her husband King Charles and Catherine, the Princess of Wales earlier this year.
And as she celebrates her 77th birthday today, those integral individuals will be ready with presents and warm wishes.
Camilla might also get words of congratulations from celebrity friends who include Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joanna Lumley and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth.
And we must not forget the Queen's beloved grandchildren, who both she and the King dote on - Lola, Freddy, Eliza, Gus and Louis.
Read on below to find out more about those who are closest to the Queen.
Family
SISTER: Annabel Elliot
Camilla's younger sister, interior designer and antique dealer Annabel Elliot, supported her throughout the difficulties of her relationship with Charles
When the pair were younger, Annabel was seen as the sister with 'taste' who eschewed the London party scene and went to Florence to study art. They are pictured together in 2016
Queen Camilla's younger sister is Annabel Elliot, an interior designer and antiques dealer.
Annabel was at Camilla's side throughout the Coronation, when she served as one of her Ladies in Attendance alongside Lady Lansdowne.
Annabel has been described as her sister's quieter counterpart and the pair have previously recalled spending their childhood rolling down hills, catching butterflies and dressing correctly for their strict grandmother while staying at their grandparents' Hampshire home.
As young women, Camilla loved the debutante circuit while Annabel was rather more serious and preferred a quieter life.
Annabel has said that Camilla, who was a debutante a year ahead of her, 'was a great success, but I certainly wasn't. I probably wasn't quite as confident as her.'
At the same time, Annabel was seen as the more intelligent sister with 'taste', who eschewed the London party scene. Instead, she went to Florence to study art.
One friend asserted that Annabel, 'with her style and good taste, is the one who should have been a duchess'.
'She'd have been perfect, but would never want to change places. As for Camilla, she pulls it off, in her own way,' they added.
In 1972, Annabel married her first real boyfriend - Simon Elliot - at the age of 23.
The following year, Camilla, then 25, married her first husband, dashing Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles.
Annabel and her husband, who died in March last year aged 82, lived in a country house in the Dorset village of Stourpaine.
It was there that Charles and Camilla would meet for discreet weekends as secret lovers decades ago.
She continued to support her sister throughout the difficulties of the relationship, driving Camilla away and out of public view when John Major announced in the Commons the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1992.
Annabel's 40th birthday party in 1989 was where Diana confronted Camilla over her relationship with Charles.
A decade later, at Annabel's 50th birthday celebrations at the Ritz, Camilla and Charles appeared for the first time in public as a couple.
At Wimbledon this year, Camilla and Annabel thoroughly enjoyed each other's company as they took in the action from the Royal Box on day 10 of the championships
Charles and Camilla have also been advocates of Annabel's interior design business, reportedly paying her £1.5million for goods and design services since the pair married in 2005.
Annabel was paid for refurbishing the Duchy's holiday cottages in Cornwall, the Scilly Isles and Wales as well as the Duchy's office in Restormel, Cornwall, and Penlyne Nursery, also in Cornwall.
She was also employed to oversee a huge interior design commission from the Duchy of Cornwall — a 20-bedroom pub in the centre of Dorset model village Poundbury.
The Duchy admitted that the contract for the work was not put out to tender.
But a spokeswoman said that Elliot understood the Duchy's commitment to environmental sustainability and to sympathetic design which is in-keeping with the local area.
SON: Tom Parker Bowles
Born on December 18, 1974 in London, Tom Parker Bowles is the oldest child of Camilla and her former husband, Andrew.
After attending Eton College, he went up to Worcester College, Oxford before working as a publicist and later at his cousin's luxury concierge service, Quintessentially.
Tom Parker Bowles is Camilla's eldest child, the son of former cavalry officer, Andrew
Tom Parker Bowles pictured with his mother and sister, Laura Lopes. In 2001, he embarked on a food writing career with Tatler. The following year he became the Mail on Sunday's food critic
Speaking on The News Agents podcast, Tom defended his mother in the wake of claims made by Prince Harry that she was 'dangerous' and a 'villain' who 'played the long game' to get her hands on the crown in his memoir Spare
Parker Bowles previously discussed the experience of discovering the news about his mother's relationship with Prince Charles.
In 1993, when the Camilla-Charles affair scandal broke, Parker Bowles was at Oxford.
He told the Times newspaper: 'I sort of remember not looking at the paper. Because, you know, Jesus, the things that we've all said to people that we love … that you wouldn't want the world reading.
'I just felt p***ed off. I wasn't going to read that sort of stuff about my mother, just as much as she wouldn't want to read it about me, or my kids certainly wouldn't want to read it about me.'
Tom said of his mother and stepfather in 2005 to Australian news programme A Current Affair: 'All you care about your parents is they're happy and my mother is exceptionally happy at the moment.
'I've always adored my stepfather; he's always been a kind and good and lovely man.'
In 2001, he embarked on a food writing career, becoming Tatler's food columnist. A year later he became Mail on Sunday's food critic.
He also served as GQ's Contributing Editor, before becoming the Food Editor at Esquire.
Parker Bowles also appeared on BBC's Masterchef: The Professionals and as a judge on Australia's cooking show, Hot Seat.
Last year, Tom defended his mother in the wake of claims made by Prince Harry in his memoir Spare that she was 'dangerous' and a 'villain' who 'played the long game' to get her hands on the crown in his memoir Spare.
Speaking on The News Agents podcast, he said: 'This wasn't any sort of end game, she married the person she loved, and this is what happened.'
He also said that it was understandable if his mother felt anxious in the run up to being crowned alongside King Charles, saying: 'I think anyone would be anxious on an occasion of this sort of importance in terms of the historical.
'And yes, I think I'd be terrified if I had to sort of walk out wearing ancient robes... She's 75, but you know, it's tough to do it. But she's never complained. You just do it. Get on with it.'
But he revealed that it wasn't 'weird' to think of his mother as the Queen, saying: 'She's still my mother... I think change happens, but I don't care what anyone says.
The writer added that his mother's role as the Queen would not change his life at all and that it would be 'appalling' if he was to become a Duke.
He said: 'You're not going to find us with great estates and being called the Duke of Whatever. No, that would be appalling.'
'I become nothing. There would be a revolution if they start handing them out to people like me. No. Why would I expect one?'
He added of his mother and step-father: 'I think they're doing amazingly. I think King Charles is a good, kind, intelligent man who cares deeply about his roles wherever they may be, Prince of Wales, the King.
'He's been way ahead of his time on issues like sustainability, food security, farming, pollution, all these things. But people were calling him sort of mad and eccentric 20 years ago.
'Everything that he's talked about are now things that have hit the mainstream and now we're really worrying about. He uses his position, as far as I'm concerned, to do good.'
In 2005, Tom married fashion editor Sara Buys. The pair had two children, Lola and Frederick, but split at the beginning of January 2018.
Tom then started dating former journalist Alice Procope, who was his girlfriend for two years before she died of cancer aged 42 in 2021.
His friend told Daily Mail's Richard Eden: 'Tom had been blissfully happy with Alice and is devastated that life can be so cruel.'
Speaking of Alice, a friend added: 'Partly because of Covid, Alice's cancer diagnosis didn't come until last August by when it was too late.'
DAUGHTER: Laura Lopes
Laura Lopes was born on New Year's Day in 1978 and is Camilla's youngest child.
She attended a Catholic school before going to Oxford Brookes University, where she studied History of Art and Marketing.
Laura Lopes is Camilla's youngest child and is said to enjoy a warm relationship with step-brothers William and Harry
Laura, pictured with her brother and mother at Cheltenham races, enjoyed a 'girls' lunch' with Kate, her sister Pippa and Camilla ahead Kate's wedding in 2011
After university, Laura pursued a career in gallery management and served as a motoring correspondent for Tatler in 2001.
In 2005, she co-founded the Eleven Gallery in Belgravia with Charlie Phillips.
The following year, she married former Calvin Klein underwear model, Harry Lopes and the couple have three children, Eliza and non-identical twin boys Louis and Gus.
Laura, who enjoys keeping a low profile, is said to have enjoyed a warm relationship with her step brothers William and Harry as well as William's wife Kate.
She enjoyed a 'girls' lunch' with Kate, her sister Pippa and Camilla ahead of Kate's wedding in 2011.
Her husband's grandfathers were both barons and the model turned chartered accountant and eco-entrepreneur will one day inherit Gnaton Hall, near Plymouth, and the 3,000-acre Skelpick estate in the Scottish Highlands.
Mr Lopes is now the Founder and CEO of Eden Renewables, which develops rooftop and ground-mount solar projects.
But in 2021 he faced an angry backlash from residents of a Wiltshire beauty spot over plans to erect a 220-acre solar farm.
GRANDCHILDREN: Lola, Freddy, Eliza, Gus and Louis
Camilla's grandchildren have been largely shielded from the spotlight over the years.
Lola and Freddy are the children of Camilla's son Tom Parker Bowles, while Eliza, Louis and Gus are the children of her daughter, Laura Lopes.
Camilla's grandchildren have been largely shielded from the spotlight over the years. Lola and Freddy are the children of Camilla's son Tom Parker Bowles, while Eliza, Louis and Gus are the children of her daughter, Laura Lopes. Above: Camilla's grandchildren greeting her and Charles at the Ballater Highland Games in 2014
Camilla is very close to all five of her grandchildren, including 13-year-old Freddy (pictured together on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the Coronation last year)
Laura Lopes' eldest child, Eliza, has already taken part in a major royal event, serving as a flower girl at Kate and William's wedding
Camilla's grandchildren Freddy Parker Bowles (front), Gus Lopes and Louis Lopes (behind)
At the Coronation, Gus, Louis and Freddy, as well as Camilla's great-nephew Arthur Elliot, served as Pages of Honour.
However, Tom Parker Bowles revealed on the News Agents podcast that his son, Freddy, was unaware of quite how big his star role as a Page of Honour would be.
'I don't think he has a sense of the occasion. He's a 13-year-old boy who loves football, a Spurs supporter... So, his worries are about the Spurs manager and losing when we're up and that sort of stuff,' he said.
Meanwhile Laura Lopes' eldest child, Eliza, served as a flower girl at Kate and William's wedding in 2011, when she was just three years old.
According to Camilla, Eliza was particularly taken with a £1 'wiggly worm' brought along by Prince Harry to keep her occupied throughout the occasion.
The trick worked so well that Eliza refused to hand the toy back and insisted hanging onto it for the official wedding photographs, taken by society snapper Hugo Burnand.
EX-HUSBAND: Andrew Parker Bowles
Camilla's former husband, Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, remains close to Camilla - as evidenced by his presence at the King's Coronation.
It came 70 years after he had served as a page at Queen Elizabeth's Coronation.
Pictured at the Cheltenham Festival in 2020, Camilla remain close friends with her former husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. One friend described them as 'joined at the hip'
Andrew and Camilla married in 1973 but divorced 22 years later after a complicated history which included infidelity on both parts
He and Camilla divorced in 1995 after 22 years of marriage but remain close friends – despite a complicated history which included infidelity on both parts.
The Marchioness of Lansdowne, one of Camilla's Queen's Companions, previously said: 'Everybody loves Andrew. He's a real charmer but he's always terribly misbehaving.
'Andrew will ring her up and tell her when she's got something wrong and she'll ring him up and say when he's misbehaving.
'Through adversity they've kept a really good family ethic. It helps with their children and grandchildren.'
Andrew also played polo on the same team as Charles when they were young and attended the wedding of Charles and his former wife at St George's Chapel, Windsor in April 2005.
Describing Andrew's close relationship to the Queen, one friend said: 'They are joined at the hip.
'He arranges so much for her. They have lunch together the whole time. He's right in there. He was always, and still is, Camilla's co-conspirator.'
Celebrity pals
During her time as a royal, Camilla has been spotted working with the nation's most famous celebrities at glamorous events.
Her celebrity friends include Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville and Dame Maggie Smith - as well as actress Joanna Lumley.
Judi Dench
Judi Dench and Camilla have met on several occasions and enjoyed an ice cream while Camilla visited the Isle of Wight in 2018
Dame Judi has met the Queen on a number of occasions and supports her work.
In 2018, Camilla met with the actress on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria's holiday home of Osborne House in East Cowes.
The actress and patron of the Friends of Osborne House showed Camilla the restored Durbar Room, which was one of the locations for the film Victoria and Abdul in which she played Queen Victoria.
The pair could be seen enjoying a catch up over a vanilla ice cream complete with a flake in the heatwave weather.
The Oscar winner has also supported Camilla's Reading Room, a charity launched during lockdown to provide opportunities for the appreciation of literature.
Attending a reception for the Reading Room in 2021, Dame Judi was seen chatting animatedly with Charles and Camilla and also took part in one of the organisation's Reading Room Roundtables.
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley (pictured with Gyles Brandreth and Camilla) has previously spoken out against Netflix's series The Crown, revealing she doesn't watch the programme out of loyalty to the royal family
Dame Joanna has proven to be a loyal and long-term friend of Camilla and the royal family, attending Camilla's wedding to Charles in 2005.
The Absolutely Fabulous star has previously spoken out against Netflix's series The Crown, revealing she doesn't watch the programme out of loyalty to the Royal Family.
After watching the earlier series, she told The Mirror she switched off as the show began to portray events later in the monarch's reign.
She said: 'Suddenly, it began to get closer and closer and they had people acting as Prince Charles, as Camilla Parker Bowles, as Princess Anne. I know them all.
'I know that's not how they speak or what they said or did. People say, "Oh, well everybody knows that it's made up."
'People don't, people think it's the truth.
'So I decided not to watch it anymore because I have some loyalty, as one would to anybody they know and like and are lucky enough to be friendly with. It's rather ghastly.'
Dame Joanna previously visited Clarence House for a charity video and attended a lunch for Camilla's 75th birthday thrown by The Oldie magazine in 2022.
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth is a long-term friend of Camilla's and hosted a lunch to celebrate her 75th birthday thrown by The Oldie magazine at the National Liberal Club last year
Broadcaster and former MP Gyles Brandreth is a long-term friend of Camilla's.
The pair first met in the 1960s when they were teenagers and he visited her grandparents' house, Hall Place.
The author gave away that he had a 'secret crush' on Camilla while appearing on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute.
He later recalled the episode on Lorraine, saying that when he was 16 years old, he saw a 'rather attractive girl' in the garden of the house.
He said 17-year-old Camilla was 'wearing jodhpurs' and 'smoking her Woodbines in the shrubbery'.
'This actually was a girl called Camilla Shand,' Gyles explained.
'Now little did I think that she might be listening to the programme.
Never occurred to me that - then Duchess of Cornwall - now Her Majesty the Queen Consort would be listening to Just A Minute...'
Gyles then admitted he felt 'a little bit awkward' as he revealed that a week after the broadcast, Camilla had bumped into his wife.
He said she quipped: "Tell Gyles, I don't deny that I was smoking...but they were not Woodbines".
Gyles wrote a biography of the Queen and Prince Philip and Charles and Camilla.
The latter was titled Charles and Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair.
He was the host of Camilla's 75th birthday dinner that was thrown by The Oldie magazine at the National Liberal Club.
Petronella Wyatt
Journalist and author Petronella Wyatt first met Camilla in the 1980s when she was about 15 at a country race meeting
Journalist and author Petronella Wyatt first met Camilla at a country race meeting in the 1980s, when she was around 15.
She was familiar with Camilla's deteriorating relationship with her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, writing: 'There was always a line of society women vying for his attention.'
She also wrote: 'I fell a little for Andrew myself. He took me out to dinner a couple of times,' but added that 'nothing happened'.
Petronella has criticised The Crown for its depiction of Camilla as 'a scarlet-taloned temptress who spent years scheming to ensnare another woman's husband'.
She also accused Prince Harry of 'tremendous' and 'breathtaking' hypocrisy for making attacks on the character of his stepmother after the release of his explosive memoir Spare.
Speaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain, Ms Wyatt blasted Harry's criticisms, accusing the duke - who she called a 'self-proclaimed feminist' - of hypocrisy by 'taking a very nasty potshot at a 75-year-old woman who can't answer back'.
'If anyone accused Meghan of scheming her way into marriage for the Royal Family... that creates howls from Harry, so why is he doing the same thing to Camilla?
'And why is he taking absolutely no responsibility for his own mistakes which were not leaked to the Press by Camilla?,' she added.
Describing her admiration for the Queen Consort, Ms Wyatt said: 'I came to like Camilla very much because she's a very modest, no frills, down to earth person... the absolute opposite of a schemer.
'She wouldn't know how to scheme, she couldn't even spell it on a Scrabble board. She's genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever met.'
Queen's Companions
Combining the roles of companion, adviser and secretary, ladies-in-waiting played a key part in royal life, accompanying the late Queen and her sister Princess Margaret on official duties and foreign tours.
But in November 2022, Camilla announced her new 'Queen's Companions' after the position of lady-in-waiting was scrapped.
She decided to enlist six confidantes as her companions, as announced by Buckingham Palace.
A Palace source said they would receive a nominal fee to cover their expenses in much the same way as ladies-in-waiting.
Another source told the Sunday Times: 'They are there to provide Her Majesty with support and company. At the end of a very busy day, it is nice to have a longstanding friend beside you.'
Sarah Troughton
Sarah Troughton (pictured right), has been Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire since 2012 and is the first woman ever to have held the position since it was created in the 16th century
One companion, Sarah Troughton, has been Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire since 2012 and is the first woman ever to have held the position since it was created in the 16th century.
Mrs Troughton is the second cousin of the King as her grandfather was the brother of the Queen Mother.
She had previously served as a lady-in-waiting to Katharine, the Duchess of Kent.
Mrs Troughton's grandson, Nicholas Barclay, was another of the King's Pages of Honour at his Coronation.
The mother-of-three is married to Peter Troughton, who is a trustee of the Royal Collection and also a pro-chancellor at Bath University.
Mrs Troughton is a trustee of the Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon, where she lives.
Since assuming the role of Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, duties have included overseeing the arrangements for visits to Wiltshire by members of the Royal Family.
In February, in what was her first public outing since the King's cancer diagnosis emerged, Camilla was flanked by Mrs Troughton (left) and the Marchioness of Lansdowne, Fiona Petty-Fitzmaurice (right)
She also represents the monarch and presents awards and medals on his behalf, and liaises with the Wiltshire units of the Armed Forces.
Speaking about Camilla on Good Morning Britain in 2022, she said: 'I don't think there's much that will surprise you, all I can tell you is that she's the nicest, kindest, most amusing friend one could possibly have, to all generations, that includes our children.'
In February, in what was her first public outing since the King's cancer diagnosis emerged, Camilla was flanked by Mrs Troughton and the Marchioness of Lansdowne, Fiona Petty-Fitzmaurice.
The trio attended a charity music evening at Salisbury Cathedral.
The presence of her friends showed how much their support is valued by the Queen.
Lady Sarah Keswick
Lady Sarah Keswick (pictured sitting next to the Queen Consort in the Royal Box on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 2011) was married to former Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick
Charles and Camilla attended the memorial service for their dear friend Sir Chippendale 'Chips' Keswick who died in April, aged 84
Lady Sarah Keswick is another close friend of the Queen and King Charles.
Charles and Camilla were both present at the memorial service held for her late husband, Sir John Chippendale 'Chips' Lindley Keswick, in May.
From 2013 until his retirement in 2020, Chips was chairman of Arsenal Football Club.
Lady Sarah appears to be a sports fan herself and was spotted at Wimbledon with the Queen Consort in June 2011.
Sir Chips at the UEFA Champions league match between Paris-Saint-Germain vs Arsenal in 2016
The pair sat in the royal box to get ready for a day of action on Centre Court, while the late TV legend Bruce Forsyth appeared to join them.
The mother-of-three had three sons, David, Tobias and Adam, with Chips.
Lady Sarah is the daughter of former Conservative MP Simon Ramsay, who was also the 16th Earl of Dalhousie.
During his five years in Parliament from 1945 until 1950, when he assumed the title of Earl of Dalhousie from his late brother, Simon did a stint as Conservative whip.
Carlyn Chisholm
Carlyn Chisholm (pictured with Nicholas Soames in 2021) worked as a nurse before entering politics
Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen, 70, is a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords.
However, until she was announced as one of the Queen Consort's Companions, she sat in the House as a Conservative peer.
Baroness Chisholm resigned the Conservative whip in order to hold the position in the Queen Consort's most relied upon circle.
She was first appointed to the House of Lords in 2014 when David Cameron was prime minister.
Before entering politics, the mother-of-three, from Sussex, worked as a nurse.
A fan of horse racing, she has previously attended Royal Ascot with Charles and Camilla and, before the royal couple quit the sport, used to go fox hunting with them too.
Fiona Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
She currently lives at Bowood House in Wiltshire with her husband Charlie, the 9th Marquis
Lady Lansdowne is a professional interior designer and has had her own studio, Fiona Shelburne, for more than three decades.
Alongside Camilla's sister, she served as one of the Queen's Ladies in Attendance at the Coronation
She currently lives at Bowood House in Wiltshire with her husband Charlie, the 9th Marquis.
In 2022, she opened up her house to magazine The English Home in an interview where she revealed she and Charlie lived with their three dogs, Tinker, Tulip and Maud.
Lady Lansdowne also explained she and her husband were custodians for the house, which is open to visits from the public, and admitted it was a 'big responsibility' to take care of the home.
Despite having lots of visitors from the public, she said she and her husband had their own 'sanctuary' in their private quarters.
She revealed she and her husband have a picnic in their woodland garden every Sunday without fail, even if it's raining outside.
'We have our supper here on a table by the fire. We don't have a huge, "state-of-the-art" kitchen but I love my Aga and love to cook,' she said.
Lady Katherine Brooke
Lady Katherine Brooke has been a close friend of Queen Consort Camilla and King Charles for several years and is the daughter of Lady Susan Hussey
Lady Katherine Brooke has been a close friend of the Queen and King Charles for several years.
Her mother is Lady Susan Hussey, who served as Queen Elizabeth II's lady-in-waiting for more than 60 years.
Lady Susan, who is now 85, is also godmother to Prince William.
Lady Susan was retained by King Charles following his mother's death but resigned in November 2022 following comments made towards a guest at Queen Consort Camilla's reception to discuss ending violence against women.
She allegedly asked Ngozi Fulani, a black woman who runs domestic abuse charity Sistah Space in Hackney: 'What part of Africa are you from?'
However, three months after her resignation, Lady Susan was seen performing official duties for Princess Anne, representing her at the memorial service for Dame Frances Campbell-Preston at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea.
Jane von Westenholz
Jane von Westenholz is married to Baron Piers von Westenholz and their daughter, Violet, introduced Prince Harry to Meghan Markle
Jane von Westenholz is another long-time friend of the Queen and King Charles.
She is married to Baron Piers von Westenholz, the interior designer and former Olympic skier who, with his wife, was involved in the renovation of Dumfries House - a Scottish stately home saved by Charles in 2007.
They are the parents of Violet von Westenholz, who first introduced Prince Harry to Meghan Markle.
Violet is a close childhood friend of Harry's and the pair often spent time together as children due to their parents' close friendship.
At the time of introducing the pair, Violet was working in communications for Ralph Lauren in London and met Meghan Markle through her job.