As Queen Camilla watched the Remembrance Sunday service from the balcony, her own military connections were on full display with her choice in jewellery.
The Queen, who serves as Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifles, wore the Silver Bugle Horn brooch presented to her by the regiment in 2020. Queen Camilla assumed the role from her father-in-law, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, that summer.
The Silver Bugle Horn brooch mimics the cap badge worn by The Rifles and features 206 diamonds and three emeralds in a silver bugle horn design resting below a St. Edward’s Crown.
Queen Camilla has been very active in her support of The Rifles over the past five years, and has worn the Silver Bugle Horn brooch previously at Remembrance Sunday and at the VJ Day commemorations over the summer.
The Queen is Colonel-in-Chief of The Rifles, the 4th Battalion, Ranger Regiment, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment, the Grenadier Guards, and The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own). She is also Commodore-in-Chief of The Royal Navy Medical Service and the Royal Navy Chaplaincy Service; Lady Sponsor of HMS Astute, MS Queen Victoria, and HRM Prince of Wales; and Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Halton and RAF Leeming; and Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom.
Her Commonwealth military honours include Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Australian Corps of Military Police and Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada.
A wreath laid on behalf of Queen Camilla at the Remembrance Sunday service closely resembled the wreathes once created for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The Queen’s wreath was designed with 95 closed-style fabric poppy petals mounted on black leaves with the ribbon using the colours of Queen Camilla’s racing silk: brown, red and yellow.
