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Royal Family aides have scrambled to fix an error on a social media post about Queen Camilla’s Easter engagement promoting an elephant conservation charity. This afternoon, the Queen visited The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and during the engagement, inspected a giant ‘Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg’.
Promoting the event on social media, royal aides took to the social media platform X to write about the charity, but the initial post contained a glaring grammatical error. The post initially asked the question, “Have you spot any of these egg-quisite eggs across London?” but was quickly deleted and re-uploaded with the correctly phrased question, “Have you spotted any of these egg-quisite eggs across London?” The post continued: “Commissioned by The King and Queen, and painted by Alice Shirley, this ‘Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg’ is just one of over 120 egg sculptures to form part of @ElephantFamily’s ‘The Big Egg Hunt’.”
The post on The Royal Family’s official X account continued: “Founded by Her Majesty’s late brother, Mark Shand, Elephant Family works in partnership with conservation experts on the ground to tackle the challenges facing Asia’s wildlife and the communities that live alongside them.”
Camilla was all smiles as she admired the 2ft sculpture and said: “This is very exciting. A real Humpty Dumpty!”
Commissioned by the King and Queen, the egg’s leafy design was created by artist Alice Shirley and inspired by their love of nature and conservation.
Alice explained that her design, painted in acrylics onto a shell made from recycled plastic, was based on a combination of the Green Man of traditional folklore, whose image also appeared on invitations to the Coronation, and the traditional nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, used here to symbolise the broken state of the natural world.
Speaking after the event, Alice said the monarch had been a “huge supporter” of her work since she studied at the Royal Drawing School in 2009 and owns several of her works, including an ink drawing of a gorilla and a painting of a leopard, which he received for his 70th birthday.
Fans on X rushed to comment on the installations and admire the artwork. One wrote: “That is absolutely breathtaking. Good job Ms Alice.”
Another said: “Brilliant project and The Queen looks amazing.”
A third joked: “Camilla reads her itinerary for the day. Photoshoot with big egg.”
A royal fan wrote: “Thanks soo much for sharing this wonderful pictures of Her Majesty, the Queen, honouring this wonderful easter egg event!!! What a SPECIAL and UNIQUE tradition!!”
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