{"id":172793,"date":"2025-12-08T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:06:09","slug":"king-charles-and-queen-camilla-unveil-their-2025-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172793\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla unveil their 2025 Christmas card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles and Camilla, 78, sharing their Christmas card comes days after his son, Prince Harry, quipped he is looking for a role in a Christmas<\/a> movie.<\/p>\n

The Duke of Sussex <\/a>interrupted Late Show host Stephen Colbert\u2019s opening monologue last week while the presenter was complaining about the festive TV films about royalty, such as \u201cCrown Prince of Christmas\u201d, \u201cThe Royal We\u201d and \u201cA Royal Icing Christmas\u201d, and claimed he was looking for such a project himself.<\/p>\n

\"KingKing Charles and Queen Camilla have shared their 2025 Christmas card. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Stephen joked to the audience: \u201cNow, as a Catholic, I was always taught that the crown prince of Christmas was Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut apparently now, it\u2019s TV movie actor Jilon VanOver. Sorry, Jesus. Shoulda booked that walk-on role in NCIS: Los Angeles. Now, folks, as much as I love these holiday movies, and I do, I think they\u2019re problematic because they give people the unrealistic expectation that during the holiday season, they\u2019re going to just bump into some prince at their job.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that point, Harry stepped on stage to applause.<\/p>\n

Stephen exclaimed: \u201cIt\u2019s Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales-Sussex! What are you doing here?\u201d<\/p>\n

His royal guest replied: \u201cSorry, I genuinely thought this was the audition for \u2018The Gingerbread Prince Saves Christmas in Nebraska\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old prince \u2013 who lives in California with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and their children Prince Archie, 6, and 4-year-old Princess Lilibet \u2013 then joked about Americans\u2019 being \u201cobsessed\u201d with royalty.<\/p>\n

Stephen said: \u201cThat sounds fantastic, but you\u2019re an actual prince. Why would you want to be in one of these movies?\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry replied: \u201cWell, you Americans are obsessed with Christmas movies and you\u2019re obsessed with royalty, so why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old broadcaster insisted that wasn\u2019t the case, but Harry said: \u201cReally? I heard you \u2018elected\u2019 a king.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen replied: \u201cThat\u2019s a fair point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry then continued to commit to the sketch and insisted he had all the skills needed to play a movie hero.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cListen, what\u2019s a real prince got to do to get into a Hallmark movie? \u2026 I got skills. I can ride a horse. I can fly a helicopter. I can ride a horse and a helicopter.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a nod to Harry\u2019s wife, former Suits star Meghan, Stephen reminded the prince Hollywood success often relies on connections and asked if he knew \u201cany famous TV actresses\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"KingKing Charles and Queen Camilla released their 2025 Christmas card using a photo from their state visit to Rome. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Harry replied: \u201cI mean, I might know one. But listen, Stephen, I\u2019ll do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

The host suggested Harry \u201cpractice helping Americans reconnect with what they love about Christmas\u201d, and then Christmas trees and a snowman appeared on stage as snow began to fall.<\/p>\n

Harry said: \u201cDo you see what\u2019s happening? Can you hear the sleigh bells?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen replied: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s probably one of those Central Park horses having a seizure.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Harry insisted: \u201cStephen, you just have to believe! Doesn\u2019t this prove that anything can happen? I mean, minutes ago, you said it was impossible. But look, isn\u2019t there a handsome prince standing in front of you, right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen then apologised to his royal guest and said: \u201cI know you want this, but I\u2019m afraid I have to say \u2026 I was testing you: You\u2019ve got the role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles and Camilla, 78, sharing their Christmas card comes days after his son, Prince Harry, quipped he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[836,95,4765,26523,10635,9861,18399,156,305,9860,111,139,69,3366,165,82722,15142],"class_list":["post-172793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-836","tag-and","tag-annual","tag-camilla","tag-card","tag-charles","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-have","tag-king","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queen","tag-their","tag-unveil","tag-unveiled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}