Camilla delighted to be immortalised as Barbie doll

Britain’s Queen Camilla has been immortalised as a Barbie doll and joked it had made her look 50 years younger.

Camilla was presented on Tuesday with the toy, dressed in her outfit, in recognition of her work supporting the Women of the World (WOW) Foundation as its president.

She held the miniature version of herself during a Buckingham Palace event celebrating WOW and said: “You’ve taken about 50 years off my life – we should all have a Barbie.”

Helen Mirren, Doreen Lawrence, Spice Girl Mel B and Kelly Holmes were some of the nation’s leading women invited to the event alongside schoolgirls and others who have contributed to the promotion of women and girls.

In a speech Camilla recounted the story of two suffragettes who broke palace windows with stones in May 1914 and how the objects were kept, on the orders of Queen Mary, wife of King George V.

After holding up the stones, she said: “In 1914, I believe, they represented hope to the women who threw them, hope that, in the future, they would not be victims of their history, nor of the social and economic forces that were ranged against gender equality.

“Above all, they represented the hope that it was possible, as Christabel Pankhurst (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst) said, ‘to make this world a better place for women’.

“Today, 110 years later, you have been invited into Buckingham Palace because you too represent hope for women in the present and in the future.”

The one-off Barbie was dressed in a scaled down version of Camilla’s outfit, worn a number of times before, a blue Fiona Clare dress, black cape by Amanda Wakeley and Eliot Zed black boots.

The doll’s hair was closely modelled on Camilla’s curls as was the jewellery worn by the toy which featured a WOW badge also worn by the queen.

The presentation was made on board the WOW Girls Festival Bus which has toured the country promoting gender equality and made a final stop at the palace where the queen toured it with Mathilde, queen of the Belgians and the duchess of Gloucester.

Women of the World Foundation is a charity which has grown to become a global network of events which champions gender equality, celebrates the achievements of women and girls and examines the obstacles which stop them from fulfilling their potential. – Bernama