{"id":104369,"date":"2025-10-29T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/104369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:25:10","slug":"artist-who-nearly-fainted-when-asked-to-work-for-camilla-reveals-queens-touching-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/104369\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist who nearly ‘fainted’ when asked to work for Camilla reveals Queen’s touching words"},"content":{"rendered":"

An artist has revealed she \u201cnearly fainted\u201d after finding out that the dog portrait she had been commissioned to draw was for the Queen.<\/p>\n

Camilla was attending the opening of Bormham Community Hub in Wiltshire when she was delighted to receive a pencil portrait of her rescue dogs, Bluebell, Beth, and Moley. <\/p>\n

Ms Hurst, 44, was first commissioned to paint the pictures of the dogs by the village\u2019s farm shop, who sent her photographs of the pets but did not reveal they were for the Queen.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old only realised her work was a gift for the Queen when she was shown a photograph of the King and Camilla with their dogs, Ms Hurst revealed: \u201cI nearly fainted on the floor.<\/p>\n

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Queen Camilla was presented with portraits of her dogs at Bromham Community Hub <\/p>\n

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\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hannah had worked on the portrait of Bluebell and Beth for four months before she was commissioned to draw a second picture of Moley. The puppy was adopted after Beth died at the age of 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoley then had arrived, and they said, wouldn\u2019t it be nice to give her (Camilla) an extra gift to represent her new dog,\u201d Ms Hurst said. <\/p>\n

Her Majesty is a patron of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and adopted Beth in 2011 when she was a three-month-old unwanted puppy, and Bluebell in 2012 after she was found alone in a London park with a painful skin condition.<\/p>\n

Hannah said she wanted to honour the Queen\u2019s work as a patron of the animal charity in the portraits.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cThe dogs are represented with Battersea Dogs Home charity little scarves, and that was really important that that was included. <\/p>\n

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Queen Camilla was taken back as she thanks Hannah hurst for the portraits <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of emotion that comes with seeing your animals looking back at you, and she had that same reaction.<\/p>\n

The Queen\u2019s visit to Bromham marked the official opening of the new community hub, which was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the village\u2019s long-time Social Centre.<\/p>\n

When Camilla was shown the portrait of Moley, she said: \u201cI\u2019m going to show it to her \u2013 I\u2019m sure she\u2019s going to recognise herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is absolutely lovely, thank you,\u201d she told Ms Hurst.<\/p>\n

The Queen also unveiled a plaque at the site and planted a tree in memory of PC Craig Dalby, who served for over 30 years and was a close protection officer for Camilla on multiple occasions. <\/p>\n

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Queen Camilla opened the Bormham Community Hub on Tuesday <\/p>\n

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Mr Dalby\u2019s widow, Serena, revealed it was a very \u201cemotional\u201d moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe (Camilla) was just warm, and Craig was really fond of her,\u201d Mrs Dalby said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artist has revealed she \u201cnearly fainted\u201d after finding out that the dog portrait she had been commissioned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[67983,458,146,85,46,52388],"class_list":["post-104369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-camilla","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-royal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}