Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Is Loving Wearing Jeans in Lockdown
The Duchess of Cornwall has been keeping things casual in lockdown. But now that she's going back to work, Camilla is finding it difficult to go back to her more formal wardrobe.
This week, the royal, who recently started making in-person engagements again for the first time since March, guest-edited the Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5. During her opening interview with the host, Camilla reflected on a number of topics which have taken on new importance for her since the coronavirus outbreak, one of which is denim.
“I've been very, very happy with my jeans. It will be very hard to get out of them again. I think you get into a sort of way of life, don’t you?” she said.
Camilla and Barnett also spoke of her newfound appreciation for the Internet, with the Duchess admitting that she wasn't such a fan of the technology before lockdown.
“None of these things I could do before lockdown. I'm ashamed to say that I really hated the internet. I didn't understand it and I thought, 'What's the point of this?’” she said.
“Since lockdown, it's been so brilliant because I've been able to communicate with family, my children, my friends. But it's also taught children…otherwise children who aren't at school what would they have done without it?”
But even with that virtual connection, Camilla admits that this time away from her family, and in particular her grandchildren, has been difficult. The Duchess has five grandchildren from her first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles: Gus, Louis, and Eliza Lopes, and Lola and Freddy Parker Bowles, and she had previously shared that the most difficult thing about being self-isolating was not being able to hug them.
“It's so hard. You want to rush up and hug them. You know, that's the most difficult—when you eventually get to meet them,” she told Barnett. “You're so excited because you haven't seen them for three and a half months… your first reaction is to run up and hug them and you have to sort of put up your hands. It's a very odd feeling. I shall look forward to the day when I can really give them a huge hug.”
The full interview, in which she also discusses how the pandemic has impacted her work with victims of domestic violence, and shares that Prince Charles is "probably the fittest man of his age I know" will air tomorrow on BBC Radio 5 Live.
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