Over the course of the pandemic, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, embraced social media as the way to connect with the people they might have otherwise chatted with on a royal engagement. In more casual posts that showed off their country home, they showed off a new, more relatable side of themselves. Still, Charles and Camilla have always been at their photographic best when they travel around the world, from the feathered capes they donned on a 2015 trip to New Zealand to their sheer joy behind the wheel of a classic car on a 2019 tour of Cuba. By the time Charles and Camilla were both vaccinated in January, it was practically inevitable that they would get back on the road, if only to give royal watchers something new to look at.
On Wednesday, Charles and Camilla arrived in Greece for a two-day trip to participate in its bicentenary independence day celebrations, attend meetings, and celebrate ties between the two countries. Despite the near-universal presence of masks, it was a relatively normal royal tour—which is to say that fun and uncanny photos abounded.
They were welcomed to the country’s presidential mansion by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and her partner Pavlos Kotsonis before a state dinner. The couples posed for photos flanked by the Presidential Guard, which wears a traditional kilt, vest, and hat dating back to the Ottoman Empire. (The unit also protected Charles’s great-grandfather, George I of Greece, before the royals were…
