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Queen Camilla makes hilarious joke as she comes face-to-face with her own Barbie doll
The Barbie doll was even dressed the same as the royal
QUEEN Camilla came face-to-face with her own Barbie doll and quipped the model has "taken years off my life".
Camilla, 76, was presented with the iconic doll at a palace bash joined by guests including Dame Helen Mirren, the former Spice Girl Melanie Brown.
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Her Barbie doll was even dressed in the same royal blue Fiona Clare dress, Amanda Wakeley black coat, Eliot Zed shoes and with a Launer handbag and Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet.
The Queen said: “Thank you very, very much indeed. Brilliant. You’ve taken about 50 years off my life.
The gift came as she hosted a Women of the World event at Buckingham Palace.
Krista Berger, senior vice president of Barbie and Global head of dolls, jetted from Los Angeles to present the Barbie to Camilla, and: “We were just tickled that the Queen wanted to play Barbie.”
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Sarah Allen, PR manager for UK Mattel, said: “We spoke to her office first to check she was happy to receive it and worked with her team on what she would like the doll to wear.”
In a speech to mark last week's International Women’s Day she held up two stones which were thrown through the Palace windows during a Suffragette protest on 27th May 1914.
She said: “The label on this one reads, “If a constitutional deputation is refused, we must present a stone message.” This one says, “Constitutional methods being ignored drive us to window smashing.”"
She went on: “The Times reported two days afterwards: “Between 11 and 12 o’clock on Wednesday, two women succeeded in evading the sentries at Buckingham Palace and entered the quadrangle.
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"They threw stone sat the windows and broke two panes of glass before the sentries intervened.
"The women were taken to the police station in the precincts of the Palace, but the Master of the Household refused to prosecute and they were released.
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“These stones were picked up and handed to Queen Mary, who decided to keep them for posterity. I thought today we might, to quote Shakespeare, find “sermons in stones.”'
The Queen went on to quote Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, saying: “Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel.
"Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.”
To which I would only add: let your lives be the stones that will shatter glass ceilings everywhere and inspire generations to come.”