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Pulling Threads with Meredith Constant · Jul 29, 2026

A Magazine Used Queen Camilla's Birthday to Write About How She's Aging in Reverse

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Meredith Constant · Pulling Threads with Meredith Constant

Earlier this month, Hello! used Queen Camilla’s 79th birthday to write a glowing piece about her, well, glow, and how she has “rolled back the years.”

Resisting the urge to make a defying gravity joke.

Rolling back to which year, exactly? A fresh 76?

And that is no shade to Camilla1.

Do women ever reach an age where they just get to celebrate the privilege of another turn around the sun?

Must we always prove every year that we are doing everything we can to not look our age? Forget not feeling your age; you better not look it.

Beyond the strangeness of this article, it’s surprising that a “natural alternative to Botox” was discussed at all. Beauty treatments are still somewhat taboo for women, but especially Royal women who, by the grace of a title, are expected to age beautifully, while forgoing invasive treatments.

I mean, it’s not like they are celebrities or something even more vulgar like influencers(!).

Read the original on meredithconstant.substack.com

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