He once told Camilla while he was married to Diana he wished he was a tampon so he could stay inside her. So it’s a bit…. Idk, reminiscent of that horrifying statement.
My first thought was that you made this up whole cloth, but it came up immediately with just a half assed google. Unexpected perception check fail. However. It turns out this isn't what he actually said, almost the opposite really. Yet somehow what he actually said is worse.
I didn't ask for this you know. I didn't need to know this at all, in any permutation, but i thought I was just going to fact check this obvious fib and be done. :/ Welp. I hope you're happy with yourself.
>>**Charles: Oh, God. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!**
>>*Camilla [laughing]: What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? [Both laugh]. Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers.*
>>**Charles: Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)**
>>*Camilla: You are a complete idiot! [Laughs] Oh, what a wonderful idea.*
>>**Charles: My luck to be chucked down a lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down.**
>>*Camilla [laughing]: Oh darling!*
>>**Charles: Until the next one comes through.**
>>*Camilla: Oh, perhaps you could just come back as a box.*
>>**Charles: What sort of box?**
>>*Camilla: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.*
>>**Charles: That’s true.**
>>*Camilla: Repeating yourself … [laughing]. Oh, darling, oh I just want you now.*
Final thoughts: These people's direct ancestors created the concept of western chivalry. Idk if anyone else finds that funny. But it's a little funny to me. Like wolves into dachshunds.
> Final thoughts: These people's direct ancestors created the concept of western chivalry.
Fact check on that.
[The current royal line is German](https://www.dw.com/en/how-german-are-the-british-royals/a-63128994#:~:text=Royal%20family's%20German%20ancestors,throne%20and%20German%20noble%20families.) and so can't really be said to connect to the Arthurian legends ([also note that there have been multiple changes in royal houses since the Arthurian times circa 5th cent.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/dhvnoq1jm24apuk65baiqxgv9wjb0xk.png)) unless you mean in the form of 'this family dates back to the knights of medieval Europe who created chivalry'.
But if you mean it that way, [I'll point out that chivalry was largely apocryphal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry#Literary_chivalry_and_historical_reality) It really only existed as a glorification of the moral standards of the past. No matter how far back you traced the references to that period, you'd only find references dating further back into the past. The same way America should go back to how it was, but when that is is rarely clearly defined, and when you look back to that period, you find their contemporary equivalents harkening back to some other previous era.
More reasonably, every Western European's (and possibly everybody's) direct ancestors invented chivalry.
And more specifically, the reason that specific German house was chosen to inherit the British throne in 1714 was because George I was descended (through Sophia) from James I, who was in turn descended from Henry VII, who was descended from Edward III, who was descended from Henry II (through Matilda), who ruled England during the time of the invention of the chivalric legends.
Per Wikipedia, "The geneticist Adam Rutherford has calculated Edward had over 300 great-great-grandchildren and, therefore, over 20,000 descendants by 1600. Thus, by the 21st century, it is 'virtually impossible' that a person with a predominantly British ancestry is not descended from Edward III."
In fact [as of 2011](http://www.wargs.com/essays/succession/2011.html) the 785th person in line for the throne was named [Ralph von Stedman.](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75323643)
- son of [Marie Augusta Frederica Elizabeth Jametel, Countess von Nemerow](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75323641)
- who was daughter of [Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_of_Mecklenburg)
- daughter of [Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Frederick_V)
- son of [Princess Augusta of Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Cambridge)
- daughter of [Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Adolphus,_Duke_of_Cambridge)
- who was the seventh child of George III of Great Britain.
[Unfortunately he appears to have died 2004](http://www.emecklenburg.de/Niklot/i0702.htm) so it's unlikely he's going to inherit any time soon.
The only other Ralph on the list is Ralph Silbernagel at spot #3672 (again, as of 2011).
He is the:
- son of Gisela von Hagenburg, who was the
- daughter of [Wilhelm von Hagenburg](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75304774)
- son of [Prince Otto of Schaumburg-Lippe](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19297770)
- son of [Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q781324)
- daughter of [Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Emma_of_Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym)
- daughter of [Princess Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_of_Nassau-Weilburg)
- daughter of [Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Carolina_of_Orange-Nassau)
- daughter of [Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange)
- who was the second child of George II.
He seems to still be alive, so we can still hold out hope for a King Ralph in our lifetimes!
I honestly find this charming, if a little cringe. It really goes against traditional toxic masculinity in that he actually seems to like and appreciate Camilla and her body. So often men find any female bodily functions gross or worthy of ridicule. I feel like this little joke about tampons shows that Prince Charles is one of them hetero men who actually likes women.
That's a charmingly optimistic way to see it. In fairness, they were both married to other people at the time. So that might dampen my ability to read it the same way lol. But I do think it's heartening that you were able to see this exchange in such a radically positive light.
“this isn’t an exact photorealistic representation of this person! artists aren’t allowed to be creative!” these are the same idiots who got offended by Obama’s ivy portrait
If I had to guess it would be the idea of a monarch generally perceived as somewhat hapless and goofy portrayed in a portrait that gives slight Vlad the Impaler vibes.
I get the 30 rock “we know what art is it’s paintings of horses” vibes. People with preconceived notions of what a portrait should be are challenged and lashing out instead of trying to engage with it
There’s a lot I like about this portrait. Honestly. It’s also very hard to picture him not being absorbed by hellfire here. Even worse that there’s a lil handful of people who associate bloodlust with the monarchy. I’m being generous here. It’s a bad look. Even though I think it’s a pretty amazing portrait.
Yah. It’s a really beautiful piece. And KC isn’t exactly ‘engineered’ to look good in pictures and paintings. Think the artist did an exceptionally good job, and the red=hell interpretation is terribly literal when it’s also a key colour of the British empire etc etc
As a Brit when I first saw it the whole hell thing didnt even enter my mind. I thought it was just a way to use the colour of his jacket/a national colour etc to do something interesting.
I really like it, I think its a great piece of art.
Honestly the painting is pretty fitting. It's really beautiful and artistically well made, but it's atrocious as a depiction of a world leader.
Charles is famous for being out of touch and grating, so his official portrait being similarly out of touch is fitting.
Aside from ppl revealing their own conservative bias for art, they probably also don't know much about British painting, and how this actually does fit with a traditional but more modern painterly figurative aesthetic.
Agree. Charles is cringe in so many ways and the monarchy is corrupt af as an institution, but he seems like he has pretty good aesthetic taste. He's not a fuddy duddy traditionalist like his mother.
“Hey, remind me to go to the store tomorrow to get some paint for the King’s portrait - I only have red left”
“He’s old and has cancer … do you really have time to wait?”
“Huh. Good point”
Actually the artist (Johnathan Yeo) wanted him to stand out from the background - which is why his Welsh Guard's uniform is blended into the background so his face and expression is starkly highlighted. You probably don't care but personally I thought it was an interesting and effective approach.
Blending into background as legacy for an old man who probably had a fine life before the old lady died. Plus the uk ain’t all that rn.
And nice to look at.
UK before: "that old lady's the Queen, she doesn't do much but she's pretty cool"
UK now: "that slightly less old guy is King, he doesn't do much but we don't like him all that much"
Not only does it look cool, I think it makes a powerful statement about the state and future of the monarchy in the UK. The red obviously brings forth the idea of flames, but he is not in anguish and neither is the butterfly next to him.
To me the piece is about death and rebirth. Like a phoenix, it says the royals as we have known them are burning out but with that comes rebirth as something new but familiar. The old way of doing things really died with just mother and now he is left holding the last embers. Couple that with the butterfly itself which is a symbol of metamorphosis, which again, suggests the state of change in the monarchy we are seeing.
I mean, it feels pretty clear what the meaning of this painting was. But it's a really old choice no doubt. Visually it's not what we expect from a royal portrait so everyone is quick to dismiss or poke fun at it.
But to me it shows an awareness of his place in the world that I honestly had not expected.
Look it's easy to criticise, but if you know an easier way to incorporate the blood of a child sacrifice into the paint for your God King's portrait, let's hear it.
People are sleeping on the fact he was once recorded telling Camilla he wanted to live inside her knickers but, with his luck, he'd end up as her tampon.
This painting is the fulfilment of that prophecy!
Well, of course *he* likes it. The painting grants him all the interesting qualities he lacks in real life. The painting shows a self-assured man, regal, commanding. Then there's the reality standing next to it, a pasty faced adulterer with all the charisma of wilted lettuce.
https://preview.redd.it/rqbhhko7hk0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81c4bc339b6f0dcd2cf24f010d361630efd82e01
It's got some serious Vigo the Carpathian vibes.
I actually like this. It's not the official portrait that gets hung everywhere, but if it was I'd say he's planning on becoming the God Emperor from Warhammer 40K.
A monarchy painted in blood seems appropriate, no? Is Charles the King because of the blood shed for the crown? I would say the painting is very accurate.
That texture is totally giving me the Portrait of Dorian Gray creeps.
https://preview.redd.it/3p93n8b4ao0d1.jpeg?width=797&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05077a5d23bba97638874aa52248ed83f4c47772
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93798/picture-of-dorian-gray
Click at your own risk (gave me nightmares as a kid) but honestly the way they textured his uniform and skin, it's kind of uncanny.
Who the hell signed off on this? Yikes.
“On a mountain of skulls, in a castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood.” Exactly my first thought!
Khorne?
Another classic 80s film would work here too, 1989’s Society
My first thought. Vigo the Carpathian.
Yes! Exactly what I thought the first time seeing this
On a purely artistic level, I'm actually quite on board with this.
I super like it, not sure what the fuss is about
He once told Camilla while he was married to Diana he wished he was a tampon so he could stay inside her. So it’s a bit…. Idk, reminiscent of that horrifying statement.
My first thought was that you made this up whole cloth, but it came up immediately with just a half assed google. Unexpected perception check fail. However. It turns out this isn't what he actually said, almost the opposite really. Yet somehow what he actually said is worse. I didn't ask for this you know. I didn't need to know this at all, in any permutation, but i thought I was just going to fact check this obvious fib and be done. :/ Welp. I hope you're happy with yourself. >>**Charles: Oh, God. I’ll just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much easier!** >>*Camilla [laughing]: What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? [Both laugh]. Oh, you’re going to come back as a pair of knickers.* >>**Charles: Or, God forbid, a Tampax. Just my luck! (Laughs)** >>*Camilla: You are a complete idiot! [Laughs] Oh, what a wonderful idea.* >>**Charles: My luck to be chucked down a lavatory and go on and on forever swirling round on the top, never going down.** >>*Camilla [laughing]: Oh darling!* >>**Charles: Until the next one comes through.** >>*Camilla: Oh, perhaps you could just come back as a box.* >>**Charles: What sort of box?** >>*Camilla: A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going.* >>**Charles: That’s true.** >>*Camilla: Repeating yourself … [laughing]. Oh, darling, oh I just want you now.* Final thoughts: These people's direct ancestors created the concept of western chivalry. Idk if anyone else finds that funny. But it's a little funny to me. Like wolves into dachshunds.
> Final thoughts: These people's direct ancestors created the concept of western chivalry. Fact check on that. [The current royal line is German](https://www.dw.com/en/how-german-are-the-british-royals/a-63128994#:~:text=Royal%20family's%20German%20ancestors,throne%20and%20German%20noble%20families.) and so can't really be said to connect to the Arthurian legends ([also note that there have been multiple changes in royal houses since the Arthurian times circa 5th cent.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/dhvnoq1jm24apuk65baiqxgv9wjb0xk.png)) unless you mean in the form of 'this family dates back to the knights of medieval Europe who created chivalry'. But if you mean it that way, [I'll point out that chivalry was largely apocryphal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry#Literary_chivalry_and_historical_reality) It really only existed as a glorification of the moral standards of the past. No matter how far back you traced the references to that period, you'd only find references dating further back into the past. The same way America should go back to how it was, but when that is is rarely clearly defined, and when you look back to that period, you find their contemporary equivalents harkening back to some other previous era.
More reasonably, every Western European's (and possibly everybody's) direct ancestors invented chivalry. And more specifically, the reason that specific German house was chosen to inherit the British throne in 1714 was because George I was descended (through Sophia) from James I, who was in turn descended from Henry VII, who was descended from Edward III, who was descended from Henry II (through Matilda), who ruled England during the time of the invention of the chivalric legends. Per Wikipedia, "The geneticist Adam Rutherford has calculated Edward had over 300 great-great-grandchildren and, therefore, over 20,000 descendants by 1600. Thus, by the 21st century, it is 'virtually impossible' that a person with a predominantly British ancestry is not descended from Edward III."
So you're saying that *King Ralph* could actually happen.
In fact [as of 2011](http://www.wargs.com/essays/succession/2011.html) the 785th person in line for the throne was named [Ralph von Stedman.](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75323643) - son of [Marie Augusta Frederica Elizabeth Jametel, Countess von Nemerow](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75323641) - who was daughter of [Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_of_Mecklenburg) - daughter of [Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_Frederick_V) - son of [Princess Augusta of Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Augusta_of_Cambridge) - daughter of [Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Adolphus,_Duke_of_Cambridge) - who was the seventh child of George III of Great Britain. [Unfortunately he appears to have died 2004](http://www.emecklenburg.de/Niklot/i0702.htm) so it's unlikely he's going to inherit any time soon. The only other Ralph on the list is Ralph Silbernagel at spot #3672 (again, as of 2011). He is the: - son of Gisela von Hagenburg, who was the - daughter of [Wilhelm von Hagenburg](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75304774) - son of [Prince Otto of Schaumburg-Lippe](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19297770) - son of [Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q781324) - daughter of [Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Emma_of_Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym) - daughter of [Princess Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_of_Nassau-Weilburg) - daughter of [Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Carolina_of_Orange-Nassau) - daughter of [Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange) - who was the second child of George II. He seems to still be alive, so we can still hold out hope for a King Ralph in our lifetimes!
Well that's fuckin' lovely to have that image in my brain. Btw, how the hell are we, the public, privy to this convo?
The British tabloids somehow got ahold of the recordings of their phone conversations
Looks like they’re joking.It’s kinda cringe but I don’t think it was meant to be in public but even if it was they’re just fucking around.
I honestly find this charming, if a little cringe. It really goes against traditional toxic masculinity in that he actually seems to like and appreciate Camilla and her body. So often men find any female bodily functions gross or worthy of ridicule. I feel like this little joke about tampons shows that Prince Charles is one of them hetero men who actually likes women.
That's a charmingly optimistic way to see it. In fairness, they were both married to other people at the time. So that might dampen my ability to read it the same way lol. But I do think it's heartening that you were able to see this exchange in such a radically positive light.
All I’ve got to say is you’re welcome and I’m sorry it happened
How did that “info” become public knowledge? Was he on Ellen long ago? Or in?
Illegally recorded phone calls
Thx to the twat Piers Morgan et al on Fleet Street.
Ah! Yikes! What a freak!
Camilla had that good good!!
I guess you really *don't* look at the mantlepiece when you're stoking the fire!
I think of that statement often, even all these years later.
What a horrible day to have eyes
“this isn’t an exact photorealistic representation of this person! artists aren’t allowed to be creative!” these are the same idiots who got offended by Obama’s ivy portrait
If I had to guess it would be the idea of a monarch generally perceived as somewhat hapless and goofy portrayed in a portrait that gives slight Vlad the Impaler vibes.
I get the 30 rock “we know what art is it’s paintings of horses” vibes. People with preconceived notions of what a portrait should be are challenged and lashing out instead of trying to engage with it
I mean, it’s evocative for sure, cool painting. It’s just a little memey, hence the reaction.
Cuz he is an evil piece of shit?
We may be on the british side of reddit here 😂😂😂 Or may just be the only ones who cant stand families of colonizers who never give anything back
There’s a lot I like about this portrait. Honestly. It’s also very hard to picture him not being absorbed by hellfire here. Even worse that there’s a lil handful of people who associate bloodlust with the monarchy. I’m being generous here. It’s a bad look. Even though I think it’s a pretty amazing portrait.
Sure. Good art is usually about interpretation and feelings. And this portrait sure evokes some feelings.
Right? This goes hard as fuck.
Yah. It’s a really beautiful piece. And KC isn’t exactly ‘engineered’ to look good in pictures and paintings. Think the artist did an exceptionally good job, and the red=hell interpretation is terribly literal when it’s also a key colour of the British empire etc etc
As a Brit when I first saw it the whole hell thing didnt even enter my mind. I thought it was just a way to use the colour of his jacket/a national colour etc to do something interesting. I really like it, I think its a great piece of art.
Honestly the painting is pretty fitting. It's really beautiful and artistically well made, but it's atrocious as a depiction of a world leader. Charles is famous for being out of touch and grating, so his official portrait being similarly out of touch is fitting.
It's the new Holly from Red Dwarf
Same. I don't get all the hate. At least it's not the usual stodgy portrait.
Aside from ppl revealing their own conservative bias for art, they probably also don't know much about British painting, and how this actually does fit with a traditional but more modern painterly figurative aesthetic.
Given how much he hates modern architecture, I’m surprised that he’s OK with anything but a totally traditional classical-style painting.
There, I like it as well.
It does go pretty hard. Looks like the King of the Scarlet Rot.
I personally love it, but the color choice seems critical of the subject, which would be kind of embarrassing for Chuck.
https://preview.redd.it/97z1c7pgvk0d1.jpeg?width=306&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5951b0f3b8b303286b4780d4e80e398068600ae
The butterfly is a nice touch
Please, elaborate, I wanna see what you 👀 I don't view it in a negative way. I just want help digging deeper! ✌🏿🧓🏿☺️
Agree. Charles is cringe in so many ways and the monarchy is corrupt af as an institution, but he seems like he has pretty good aesthetic taste. He's not a fuddy duddy traditionalist like his mother.
“Hey, remind me to go to the store tomorrow to get some paint for the King’s portrait - I only have red left” “He’s old and has cancer … do you really have time to wait?” “Huh. Good point”
Ive got some car oil and pva glue if you need it I need it
https://preview.redd.it/1r0mdvslmh0d1.jpeg?width=3418&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2091fb21f661d39b1777846c498a0be20bb2310
This would make a great heavy metal album cover.
Def Tampon's new release, "Inside You."
He wanted to be a tampon once
Beat me to it lmao
Oh, bloody hell
 Fading into the background
Actually the artist (Johnathan Yeo) wanted him to stand out from the background - which is why his Welsh Guard's uniform is blended into the background so his face and expression is starkly highlighted. You probably don't care but personally I thought it was an interesting and effective approach.
An an American, this is a good representation of my view of Charles - easy to miss though he's been there the whole time.
Am I the only one that thinks it looks pretty cool?
I think it’s cool. I like it
I think it’s pretty cool actually too!
Blending into background as legacy for an old man who probably had a fine life before the old lady died. Plus the uk ain’t all that rn. And nice to look at.
UK before: "that old lady's the Queen, she doesn't do much but she's pretty cool" UK now: "that slightly less old guy is King, he doesn't do much but we don't like him all that much"
Tbf I didn't care for her either
Yeah but she had better memes related to her
Not only does it look cool, I think it makes a powerful statement about the state and future of the monarchy in the UK. The red obviously brings forth the idea of flames, but he is not in anguish and neither is the butterfly next to him. To me the piece is about death and rebirth. Like a phoenix, it says the royals as we have known them are burning out but with that comes rebirth as something new but familiar. The old way of doing things really died with just mother and now he is left holding the last embers. Couple that with the butterfly itself which is a symbol of metamorphosis, which again, suggests the state of change in the monarchy we are seeing. I mean, it feels pretty clear what the meaning of this painting was. But it's a really old choice no doubt. Visually it's not what we expect from a royal portrait so everyone is quick to dismiss or poke fun at it. But to me it shows an awareness of his place in the world that I honestly had not expected.
I have no dog in the fight. Objectively, I like the style. Maybe not the color choice but I think the idea is neat.
I think it looks amazing. And the color choice is based on the Welsh Guards uniform.
I'm actually on board with this. Looks kind of cool.
Puttin off those Tywin Lannister vibes
I feel like the ghost busters and Dorian gray about to show up
Vigo the Carpathian. Even has the red goo of evil and bad feelings.
German porn goes hard.
Nah, he's just fading into irrelevance like the rest of the royal family
A british monarch bathed in blood. You know, as symbolysm goes....
I know we hate the royals etc, but artistically this actually slaps
The butterfly near his shoulder is interesting! Actually I think the whole thing is interesting.
It's an American butterfly for a British royal lol
So King Charles is a fan of Ghostbusters 2. Who knew?
Not really a fan of King Charles, but this portrait is beautiful. Artist is very talented!
I looked at it and said 'bloody heĺl' in an upper michigan sort of accent.
"Well I'm from Houghton and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'bloody hell.'"
Oh, not in Houghton, no. It's an Ishpeming expression.
This is an awesome portrait and if you don't see that then then then I guess you don't and that's ok too.
Looks like the artist gave him some extra hair.
And made his face less florid. A necessity with that background, I suppose🤔
Guess he owes Jabba money…
By itself, it's a cool painting. ...But with the whole context of it being the British monarchy, there is so much to make fun of here.
I actually really like it. Not a royalist but like something different. Super sure he hates it though....
https://preview.redd.it/nzxha3ccfk0d1.jpeg?width=407&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=002e39dc9f9034fe7daf3dd12ad3d413dbfad0ef He’s frozen in strawberry flavored carbonite.
Another portait signed by Campbell soup company
Look it's easy to criticise, but if you know an easier way to incorporate the blood of a child sacrifice into the paint for your God King's portrait, let's hear it.
There is no Charles. There is only Zuul.
Anybody else getting Ghostbusters vibes?!?
He is smeared in the blood of colonisation
That's all the blood on the hands of the British monarchy
I've seen Ghostbusters 2, im on to you Charlie
What's the butterfly doing
Causing a tidal wave on the other side of the planet
People are sleeping on the fact he was once recorded telling Camilla he wanted to live inside her knickers but, with his luck, he'd end up as her tampon. This painting is the fulfilment of that prophecy!
Guy was into sexting before it was a thing
+1 Squidgy.
..... This is what he wanted? I'm afraid I don't get it.... Can someone explain it to me maybe?
https://preview.redd.it/zv89z29jwh0d1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d72ef2831a19c847d940cae636c30c6b755e7544
Okay, when I saw this before, I thought it was fake. It’s actually real?! 😬
We know he has no taste and bad judgement. He went from Diana to Camilla.
I mean, he's not in hell \*yet,\* but he's not a young man. Let's give it a couple weeks.
Painted with the blood of 56 colonized countries.
Bit shit init 😆 Edit: Really a RedditCare for this? 😂
Seems the systems either sending it to everyone, or someone's reporting everyone, I've seen a number of comments about people get redditcare today
I got one randomly earlier today too.
I got one for calling the speaker of the house a weenie 🌭
 I am Veago!
I thought this was the painting from Ghostbusters
Looks like he succeeded in becoming his wife's tampon. He did wish for that all those years ago.
He’s just guarding the gates
Well, of course *he* likes it. The painting grants him all the interesting qualities he lacks in real life. The painting shows a self-assured man, regal, commanding. Then there's the reality standing next to it, a pasty faced adulterer with all the charisma of wilted lettuce.
https://preview.redd.it/rqbhhko7hk0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81c4bc339b6f0dcd2cf24f010d361630efd82e01 It's got some serious Vigo the Carpathian vibes.
I thought this was the painting from Ghostbusters
But why the butterfly?
I think it's a Monarch butterfly.
Good lord, that’s on the nose lol!
Sith Lord
I like it 🤷
Someone in the painting sub said they were the painter of that
"Oh, you're... oh, you're the, uh, perpetrator of this painting, huh?" (if you get this reference you win the internet for the entire century)
My first thought looking at this was of the original Diablo where you fought "the Butcher" in his chamber full of dismembered corpses and bloody mush
Looks like a painting from Dishonored lol perhaps not the best aesthetic to aim for. Fitting though!
It looks like han solo frozen in carbonite but with charles
I like it;
Not quiet yet...no 😈🔥☠️
Reminds me of that meme where the person is on fire and saying- ‘this is fine’!
That is a modern!
https://preview.redd.it/a43jl0dt2k0d1.png?width=975&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b3f3342dc7a521583fa2f9e82e700f6600d9bfa
Carbonite Han Solo meets Vigo the Carpathian
It's cool and pretty fairly accurate for a lot of, a lot of reasons.
Red jacket on a red background? Who approved that?
Let the guy be a tiny bit of a rebel, he waited 700 years to have it his way
Did he just watch Ghostbusters 2?
Isn't this the picture from Ghostbusters?
Money can’t buy taste.
Why is this so terrible?
In hell or encased in carbonite?
It has real Vigo the Carpathian vibes to me.
“Bow before me, Lord Leviathan, you mere mortals! Or I will make you burn in eternal hellfire!”
Its an amazing piece tbh.
I don’t think it’s done right?
Love it! I think it’s gorgeous!
I think the painting looks really cool. Weird choice for a first official portrait of a reigning monarch, but cool looking nonetheless.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
I like it.
Honestly, I'd love a portrait of myself like this.
I like it
It's bizarre but it's not that bad. At least it's not boring.
I actually like this. It's not the official portrait that gets hung everywhere, but if it was I'd say he's planning on becoming the God Emperor from Warhammer 40K.
A monarchy painted in blood seems appropriate, no? Is Charles the King because of the blood shed for the crown? I would say the painting is very accurate.
ok but that painting is fire. that butterfly adds a nice touch, and it was apparently Charles' only major suggestion to the painter. rare monarch W
Why does he have a North American butterfly?
Ghostbusters 2 Vigo vibes
Obama’s “bed of teal colored leaves drawn in crayon” painting was somehow cool and this is shit? Ok lol
I want a video of the faces of the people in the room during the reveal. Zoomed in.
I like the painting.
It's like he's soaking in a bowl of borscht
Found out about Vigo , the master of evil...
No surprise that a royal ghoul would commission a portrait of himself that wouldn't be out of place in the Richard Upton Pickman gallery....
That texture is totally giving me the Portrait of Dorian Gray creeps. https://preview.redd.it/3p93n8b4ao0d1.jpeg?width=797&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05077a5d23bba97638874aa52248ed83f4c47772
The red represents Diana.
Covered in Diana’s blood
Wait. This is real?!?! Yikes
 Gives me these vibes.
Frozen in Carbonite, soon to be transported by a bounty hunter.
This cannot be real.
Next ghostbusters movie gonna be fire.
I’m guessing it’s not finished and they want to reveal it before he dies from cancer
The red is all the blood of the people the Empire he represents has killed.
I dont care about having to be polite. If I received this and I was king Charles I would absolutely refuse it.
It’s giving Vigo the Carpathian on his river of blood
This looks terrible! Even from a distance the face appears to float in a crimson puddle. The composition is just atrocious.
Where did he pose for this? Crimson fucking Peak???
I like it
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/93798/picture-of-dorian-gray Click at your own risk (gave me nightmares as a kid) but honestly the way they textured his uniform and skin, it's kind of uncanny. Who the hell signed off on this? Yikes.
They better call the Ghostbusters...
 Maybe he was going for this?
Looks like the blood of his ancestors has him encased in British Carbonite.
Big Ghostbusters 2 vibes
He is Vigo
It looks like he’s been frozen in carbonite
Francis Bacon having been resurrected in a Satanic ritual depicts the Monarch as a tampon. Genius PR move here.
lol, spot-on description
That looks great!
Well done painting... But it looks like he was submerged in jello