They called her the Rainbow Queen: For every royal engagement, Her late Majesty would arrive in a bright, vibrant color—a different hue nearly each time—so that, according to the Queen’s daughter-in-law Sophie, then Countess of Wessex (and now Duchess of Edinburgh), she could be seen by members of the crowd assembled, even if they were far away. “I have to be seen to be believed,” she once remarked.
But, in so many different ways, things have changed, and a new color trend has become impossible to ignore among our new Queen: Queen Camilla, whose title became official this past weekend at the Coronation ceremony she shared with her husband, King Charles. Though she wore white to Westminster Abbey, the next day, at the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle, there it was again—blue, the color that can't help but be noticed by those who have been paying attention (and even those that haven’t been trying to—it really is that obvious). Camilla chose not just blue, but royal blue, to wear to the concert, and since she became Queen Consort on September 8, the choice of blue has been no coincidence. As far back as October 15—not long after the royal mourning period and its accompanying black dress code ended—she stepped out to British Champions Day at Ascot Racecourse. Then, when she and the King hosted South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in November—the first state visit of the new reign—she greeted him in blue. Later that evening, at a state banquet in Buckingham Palace, blue—again.
