{"id":587607,"date":"2026-08-09T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T03:58:11","slug":"queen-camillas-pet-name-king-charles-calls-her-behind-closed-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587607\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla’s pet name King Charles calls her behind closed doors"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla<\/a> have regularly appeared to be the perfect couple<\/a>, and that even extends to the fact that the pair have sweet pet names<\/a> for one another.<\/p>\n

However, while many of us might be content with calling our significant other names like ‘darling’, ‘sweetie’ or a shortened version of their own name, the monarch and his love have more unique monikers.<\/p>\n

Since the early days of their courtship, Charles has called Camilla ‘Gladys’, while Camilla has called her husband ‘Fred’. The names are believed to have derived from The Goon Show, a radio show broadcast on the BBC that ran between 1951 and 1960.<\/p>\n

Fred is a character who in the show manages to disappear right from underneath his mother’s nose, while Gladys was known for her constantly changing voice and for responding to many questions by saying: “Yes, darling!”<\/p>\n

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Princess Diana<\/a> previously said that Charles had previously purchased Camilla a bracelet with the initials of the characters entwined within it. Speaking to biographer Andrew Morton, she claimed: “I walked into this man’s office one day and I said, ‘Ooh, what’s in that parcel?’ And he said ‘Oh, you shouldn’t look at that.<\/p>\n

“So I opened it and there was a gold chain bracelet with a blue enamel disc. It’s got ‘G and F’ entwined in it, ‘Gladys’ and ‘Fred’\u2014they were their nicknames.”<\/p>\n

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The pair have sweet names for one another (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

These aren’t the only nicknames for each other that Charles and Camilla have. The King is known to call his beloved ‘darling’ from time to time, but he also has used ‘mehbooba’, an Urdu phrase that translates to “my beloved”.<\/p>\n

What are King Charles and Queen Camilla doing now?<\/p>\n

The royal couple will be spending the rest of the month in Scotland for their summer holidays, and they’re expected to be heading to Balmoral<\/a> in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The couple usually begin their holidays at the Castle of Mey, which was purchased by the monarch’s late grandmother, the Queen Mother. Charles inherited the property upon her death in 2002.<\/p>\n

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The King has now added the rose to the gardens (PA)<\/p>\n

During his stay there this year, the King made a new addition to the home<\/a>, planting the King’s Rose in the gardens, which were previously cultivated by his late grandmother, the Queen Mother<\/a>. Charles was pictured in the Walled Garden at the castle, which is located by the Pink Arbor.<\/p>\n

In images from the King’s Foundation, Charles was seen in a tweed jacket and kilt, while he carried a walking stick that he often employs when on the uneven ground of Scotland. He was seen standing by a vase that carried the King’s Rose, which was bred by David Austin Roses and named in Charles’ honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla have regularly appeared to be the perfect couple, and that even extends to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[234312,93,61,60,7428,11646,234307],"class_list":["post-587607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-charles-and-camilla","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-king-charles","tag-queen-camilla","tag-the-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}