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rrrrrivers on May 14th, 2024 at 17:02 UTC »

HE IS VIGGO!

VioletsDyed on May 14th, 2024 at 18:21 UTC »

Spartan2470 on May 14th, 2024 at 18:27 UTC »

Here is a much higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the artist, Jonathan Yeo.

> HM King Charles III

> Oil On Canvas

> 230cm x 165.5cm

> 2024

According to here:

> Jordan Reynolds, PA

> Tue, 14 May 2024 at 12:08 pm GMT-4

> The King has unveiled the first completed official portrait of himself since the coronation, which includes one detail Charles suggested should be added.

> The portrait, by British artist Jonathan Yeo, was commissioned in 2020 to celebrate the then Prince of Wales’s 50 years as a member of The Drapers’ Company in 2022.

> The portrait, which was unveiled on Tuesday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, depicts Charles wearing the uniform of the Welsh Guards, of which he was made Regimental Colonel in 1975.

> The uniform of the Welsh Guards inspired the colour red, which was painted over much of the portrait, as Yeo said he felt like this portrait should have more of a “dynamic and contemporary feel”.

> A butterfly is hovering over the King’s shoulder in the portrait, which was added in by Yeo at Charles’s suggestion.

> After the unveiling, Yeo said he would “love to take full credit for that” but it was “actually the subject’s idea”.

> During a conversation with the King, Yeo said they discussed how it would be “nice to have a narrative element which referenced his passion for nature and environment” and he spoke of how Charles “changed jobs halfway through the process” and the butterfly is a “symbol of metamorphosis” so it “tells multiple stories”...