Queen Camilla Style between empathy and secluded elegance has conquered Italy. The video of the speech on literature

«In Ravenna the old Italian customs are perhaps preserved more than in any other city of Italy. And people have maintained their originality ». So Lord Byron in one of his letters during the Ravenna years. Judging by the enthusiasm aroused by Carlo and Camilla on the occasion of their visit to the city, the affection demonstrated was spontaneous and warm. Certainly also due to the precious dose of empathy that the pair of sovereigns has been able to add on every occasion of the Royal Visit. The Ravenna appointment to discover the Byron Museum at Palazzo Guiccioli was undoubtedly one of the most intimate moments for Queen Camilla. Moreover, he was in his beloved kingdom of culture and literature. And where even in the choice of the look and the attitude he had conquered everyone.

Longuette dress slightly escort and under the knee, combined two -tone shoe, without hat and free hands (bag and scarf entrusted to its lady in Waiting) and ready to leave the joy of the square for a short range to carve out a moment of relaxation. Cup of tea with milk to recover and then immersion to discover the museum. This was welcomed Mirella Falconi Mazzotti, president of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna Foundation who is also the owner of the museum and took care of it from renovation and reopening. Also present was Antonio Patuelli the president of the Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna but also the one who years ago had the original idea of ​​giving life to a Byronian museum in the city. And again. Ernesto Giuseppe Alfieri, president of the Italian Byron Society and Alberta Fabbri, the museum director. « The presence of Queen Camilla is more than a second inauguration, the consecration of this place as a cultural pole ». Moreover, Palazzo Guiccioli is also home to the Italian Byron Society.

Camilla recreated the patinated and informal atmosphere at the same time underlying the success of her non -profit association The Queen’s reading Born in 2021 during the pandemic as a club of the virtual book. The objective to make the reading accessible, shared and source of comfort even in the most difficult moments. Camilla has always been passionate reader and promoter of the value of the written word. After all, she was herself several times to declare: « For me, reading is a great adventure », under the point of being as far as the power of words can unite, heal and elevate.

Today he has the patronage of numerous organizations including the National Literacy Trust, First Story, Booktrust and Coram Beanstalk. Sitting in the garden that had set as a frame to the love story between Lord Byron and the Countess Teresa Gamba Guiccioli seemed to see her in the official portrait posted on social media in the profile of @Thequesensboingroom

Out of program and surprise while the sovereign visited the rooms of the byron museum reached King Carlo. A moment of spontaneous intimacy underlined by the enthusiasm of those present. To which the sovereigns greeted with relative handshake. Perfect as in the days preceding the combination of the colors of their looks. Complete double light chest for Charles III in tune with the Camilla cream color. The complicity of the pair of sovereigns immediately appeared subsequent. Almost to have created a new protocol done, just to underline it, of a very strong empathy.

Camilla’s dress changes during the days of the Italian Royal Visit and therefore an opportunity to be able to see it in a closer way have shown a winning personal style made of a few determined colors, dresses from the line to corolla more tight in the upper part with more waste skirts the non -use of hats reserved only for particular occasions, always combined a bag and a scarf very often delivered to the lady in Waiting. And everything made in Britain. Many of the looks worn in Italy bear the signature of the stylist Fiona Clare. Precious concession the pins from which it never separates from the most precious and symbolic ones.

Discovering the Byron Museum

His friend Shelley wrote about him: « He is becoming what he should be, a virtuous man. » The conversion of Lord Byron, if we want to call it that, takes place in Ravenna at Palazzo Guiccioli where for a three -year period
(1819-1821), the most narrative poet of his generation stays. Byron loved Ravenna but even more his inhabitants: the permanence in the palace is linked to the far from Platonic relationship (Byron was known for his bi-sexual appetites), with Teresa Gamba the then wife of Count Alessandro Guiccioli: she 19 year old, he 60 years old, while of years at that time byron had 31. The poet had known Teresa in Venice, a city that, « after the East, he writes. green of the
my imagination ».

The relationship with Teresa is far from imaginary, it has something obsessive: strands of hair that become bracelets, shreds of skin of the poet’s foot preserved as relics. Report leading to the divorce of the Guiccioli couple. In the walls of the home Ravenate, a complex of 2,220 square meters, Byron not only spends time in Teresa’s alcova, but gives life to some of his best known works such as Marino Faliero and the two Foscari, Don Juan and Sardanapalus, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and The Prophecy of Dante. He dedicates himself to social works. Not only that, the poet died in 1824 in Missolungi in Greece, but first in Ravenna in agreement a spider web of relations with our carboneria. After two
centuries from the disappearance, in 2024 Ravenna created the byron museum to tell these years spent from the poet in Italy, an integral part of the charm of his exaggerated and extravagant life. It is revived in the 24 rooms of the museum which also houses a wing dedicated to our Risorgimento (museum
Byron; Palazzoguiccioli.it).