KEY POINTS

  • Camilla Parker Bowles praised Kate Middleton's photography skills, saying the latter took very good pictures
  • The Duchess of Cornwall said it was very relaxed working with Middleton, and they had a lot of fun
  • Prince Charles' wife found the pictures very nice and said they were what Country Life magazine needed

Duchess Camilla shared some details behind her photoshoot with Kate Middleton.

The Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Cambridge teamed up for the former's cover for Country Life magazine to mark her 75th birthday Sunday and the magazine's 125th anniversary. Camilla posed for the cover while Middleton was the person behind the camera.

"She did very good pictures, and she does it sort of naturally. We had a lot of fun doing it," Camilla said in a preview of an upcoming ITV special, People reported.

"It was very relaxed and, of course, very kind of the Duchess of Cambridge," Prince Charles' wife added. "She came with her camera, and she's an extremely good photographer. And it was all very casual — there wasn't much hair and make-up. It was just done in the garden with a lot of laughs — it was a lovely way of doing it."

Camilla also shared one photo on Instagram with the Prince of Wales' approval. The snap featured her sitting on a bench with a basket filled with pelargoniums.

"If I can get over the fact I'm looking at myself, I think that they're very nice, and I think they're just what's needed for Country Life," Camilla said, showing her joy and approval of the final product.

According to Mark Hedges, they asked Camilla if she had a photographer in mind to do her photoshoot, and she didn't hesitate to name Prince William's wife.

"She immediately replied, 'Oh I'd quite like Catherine to do it.' I spent the next three or four minutes desperately racking my brain trying to think of a professional photographer called Catherine," he said, according to The Telegraph.

Royal biographer Katie Nicholl, the author of "Kate: The Future Queen," spoke about Middleton and Camilla's relationship after learning about the photoshoot. The royal commentator and author said the two future queen consorts are very close.

"They're very very close, they really are," the Vanity Fair correspondent said on GB News. "It's interesting isn't it, we were sitting here talking about the fab four last time and, of course, that was Harry and Meghan and William and Kate, and now we talk about a very different fab four. We are talking about Charles and Camilla and William and Kate."

Camilla Parker Bowles, Kate Middleton
Camilla Parker Bowles and Kate Middleton return in a horse-drawn carriage after attending the Queen's Birthday Parade, 'Trooping the Colour' on Horseguards parade in London on June 9, 2018. Getty Images/Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP