Buckingham Palace on Saturday released a new portrait showing Camilla, Queen Consort posing with hundreds of Paddington and teddy bears left outside Queen Elizabeth‘s royal residences as a tribute to the late monarch following her death on Sept.
8. The palace announced that over 1,000 Paddingtons and teddy bears will be professionally cleaned before they are donated and delivered to Barnardo’s children charity.
Elizabeth had a close connection with Barnardo’s, and Her Majesty in 2016 passed the patronage of Barnardo’s to the then-Duchess of Cornwall.
According to the palace, the more than 1,000 bears are being well looked after at Buckingham Palace, Clarence House and in the Royal Parks nursery located in Hyde Park.
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