Queen Camilla looked animated as she attended Women’s Aid’s 50th anniversary event today – after revealing she is recovering from pneumonia.
The royal, 77, was spotted chatting with Ashley James, Katie Piper and Alice Liveing, Women’s Aid ambassadors at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London.
Camilla spoke with survivors of domestic abuse, and other attendees and supporters of the charity at the event.
She was wearing a black A-line dress from Fiona Clare with a sheer leopard print blouse underneath – one of her favourite outfits and one she has worn in the past.
The stunning ensemble boasted puffed sleeves, and cinched in at the waist for a flattering look.
Later on, the Queen cut the cake to celebrate the anniversary and stood next to the speakers at the podium. She was then gifted flowers by Nikki Bradley, the Director of Services at Women’s Aid.
Camilla had told guests at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia.
Queen Camilla looked animated as she attended Women’s Aid’s 50th anniversary event today
The royal, 77, was spotted chatting with Ashley James , Katie Piper and Alice Liveing
She has been undertaking a reduced programme as she recovers, particularly from tiredness, but is still undertaking engagements.
On November 5, the palace announced that the Queen had come down with a chest infection and would miss Remembrance events that week, including the Festival of Remembrance and Remembrance Sunday at The Cenotaph war memorial.
But she was back in action on November 12 to meet with finalists of the literary Booker Prize at her London home, Clarence House.
‘I’m getting much better,’ she said at the event. ‘Bit of sort of coughing going on but I really wanted to be here.’
The Queen contracted her chest infection after a long haul trip to Australia and Samoa and has pulled out a series of engagements since then, including the Royal Variety Performance and the Gladiator II premiere.
It is understood the Queen was not taken to hospital with pneumonia, but is now facing bouts of extreme tiredness.
Sources stressed there was no cause for alarm, saying the chest infection had simply left the Queen ‘with significantly diminished reserves of energy’.
Queen Camilla posed front and centre with the Women’s Aid ambassadors
Queen Camilla looked animated today as she attended Women’s Aid’s 50th anniversary event – after revealing she is recovering from pneumonia
Camilla was wearing a black A-line dress from Fiona Clare with a sheer leopard print blouse underneath
Nikki Bradley, Director of Services at Women?s Aid, gifts flowers to Queen Camilla
Britain’s Queen Camilla (R) talks to British singer and actor, Kelle Bryan, Women’s Aid ambassador
The outing comes just days after Camilla revealed she had been recovering from pneumonia
Camilla also met with survivors of domestic abuse and listened intently as she heard their stories
Queen Camilla watches as Nikki Bradley, Director of Services at Women’s Aid, speaks during the 50 Years of Women’s Aid anniversary reception
Queen Camilla talks to Women’s Aid ambassadors as she attends the 50 Years of Women’s Aid anniversary reception
Camilla spoke to writer, activist and TV presenter Katie Piper, who was attending as an ambassador
It comes after Camilla met with Brigette Macron at a book awards ceremony yesterday.
Sporting Dior – naturellement – Her Majesty shared a decidedly French double kiss with the First Lady and greeted her with a cheery ‘Bonjour!’ as they celebrated a new cross-channel literary initiative.
The Queen praised Madame Macron’s English as ‘far better than my French’ – although she did study in Paris in her youth – and appeared to have such a good time at a reception with authors that the engagement ran a few minutes over schedule.
The pair teamed up to celebrate the Entente Littéraire Prize Ceremony, a new prize for young adult fiction in translation in French and English.
Camilla was in charge of cutting the cake for the celebration, which was decorated with pink icing
The Queen, 77, and First Lady of France, 71, who have previously played table tennis together, spent 15 minutes talking privately at the event, where they swapped books: four of the Queen’s Reading Room recommendations from Camilla to Madame Macron, and a book about Notre Dame in return.
The event was held at the French Ambassador’s Residence in London, near to Kensington Palace, where dozens of authors and translators gathered to honour the prize.
The Queen and Madame Macron greeted each other with arms outstretched. ‘How are you? How nice to see you,’ the Queen said.
After posing for a photograph, the pair walked up the steps, Madame Macron thanked the Queen for ‘organising’ the prize.
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