King shocks congregation at Cotswolds church by showing up at girl’s baptism
Charles came to OUR christening! King surprises the congregation at a Cotswolds church by showing up at a girl’s baptism, weeks after he was unable to attend the ceremony for her own granddaughter.
- King Charles happily posed for photos while surprising a family last Sunday
- The photographer present said it was an “event that will be talked about for the rest of her life.”
He may not have been able to attend the christening of his granddaughter, Princess Lilibet, in California earlier this month.
But King Charles was delighted to share the joy of another family.
The 74-year-old monarch was in the congregation of a Cotswolds church last Sunday when he discovered six-month-old Alice Elizabeth Windell was being baptized.
Her delighted parents Christopher and Rebecca happily posed for photos with their daughter after the ‘lovely and totally unexpected surprise’.
The photographer present said it was an “event that will be talked about for the rest of her life.”
Christopher and Rebecca Windell pose with their six-month-old baby, Alice Elizabeth Windell, after her christening.
As King, he is now the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, but Charles has long been a regular Sunday worshipper, leisurely visiting a local church wherever he is in the country.
Their youngest granddaughter, one-year-old Lilibet, was christened in California on March 3 at Harry and Meghan’s Montecito mansion, the couple recently told the American celebrity magazine People.
Later, journalists with close ties to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed that the King, Queen Consort and Prince and Princess of Wales were invited, but none attended.
However, the British sovereign and his wife could never have flown to the US for such a private family event due to security and pressing matters of state.
William and Kate no longer speak to the Sussexes after Harry’s repeated attacks on them and the royal family as part of his lucrative business deals with the media in the United States.
As King, he is now the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, but Charles has long been a regular Sunday worshipper, leisurely visiting a local church wherever he is in the country.
There were reportedly 20 to 30 guests in attendance, including Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland and billionaire entertainment mogul Tyler Perry, who lent the couple a Los Angeles home when they moved to the US for first time.
He was later asked to be Lilibet’s best man, Perry revealed in his Netflix series last December, adding that he would accept only if he didn’t have to go to the UK. He flew to the event from his Atlanta home on his private jet.
It was later reported that Harry’s aunts Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, the sisters of the late Princess Diana, were also present.