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Jul 29, 2026

Charlotte’s Chair Was Never Laid. Camilla Sat in the One That Has Always Been Hers.

Charlotte’s Chair Was Never Laid. Camilla Sat in the One That Has Always Been Hers.

The gold place cards are real. The week it takes to set St George’s Hall is real. Protocol officers do spend days deciding who sits nearest which foreign dignitary, which royal anchors the camera side of a 47-metre table, and how to keep fractious guests a safe number of gilded forks apart. Nothing at a state banquet is accidental.

Princess Charlotte’s name is not on those cards.

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