King Charles and Queen Camilla Mark U.K. Mother’s Day with Throwback Photos of Their Moms — and a Kind Message to All

The royal couple honored their late mothers, Queen Elizabeth and Rosalind Shand, on Mothering Sunday on March 15

Left: Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth and King Charles; Right: Queen Camilla and Rosalind Shand.Credit : 

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King Charles and Queen Camilla marked Mother’s Day in the U.K. by sharing throwback photos of their late mothers.

They shared the photos of Queen Elizabeth and Rosalind Shand on the royal family’s social media accounts on Sunday, March 15.

“Wishing Mothers everywhere, and those who might be missing their Mums today, a restful Mothering Sunday,” King Charles, 77, and Queen Camilla, 78, wrote.

In one throwback photo, Queen Elizabeth — who died in 2022 at 96 — can be seen sitting on a bench beside the future King Charles, while Princess Anne stood on the bench with her mother’s arms wrapped around her legs.

In another photo, Camilla and Shand — who died in 1994 at 72 — smiled directly into the camera in a mother-daughter moment.

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A third image, from 1951, shows Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother holding their hats as they arrived for the wedding of Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglas-Scott and Ian Bedworth at Westminster Abbey.

Since Queen Elizabeth’s death in September 2022, Charles has publicly honored his mother every Mothering Sunday on social media.

In 2025, the royal family accounts shared a photo of the monarch as a boy and his mother reading a book together.

They captioned the photo, in part, with, “A young Prince Charles (now The King) and Princess Anne attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show with The late Queen Elizabeth in 1956.”