Queen Camilla spotted with lookalike sister: Who is Annabel Elliot?

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Queen Consort Camilla recently attended the Booker Prize awards ceremony with her rarely-seen lookalike sister Annabel Elliot.

It’s not a hidden fact that Queen Consort is a literature lover and she recently attended the Booker Prize for Fiction Ceremony on Monday, October 17. She was accompanied by her younger sister – Annabel Elliot – for the event.

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Low-key Annabel

The Booker Prize event was a few of Queen Consort’s rare appearances with look-alike younger sister Annabel Elliot. The younger sister of Queen Consort is an interior designer and antique collector. Annabel is two years younger than the Queen and was born in 1949. However low-key, the aristocrat is often seenwithin the Royal circle.

Annabel also runs a shop in Dorset for more than 30 years now. Reportedly, when Charles was still a prince, he commissioned his sister-in-law to be the chief interior designer of his estates in the Duchy of Cornwall.

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Major Bruce Shand (Camilla's father) and Annabel Elliot (Camilla's sister) Sebastien DUFOUR/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Ranked as the fifth most influential female interior designer in the UK in 2014, Annabel has an impressive set of work to show for her skills. According to Express.co.uk, she has designed the interiors of 12 cottages on the Isles of Scilly, Restormel Castle and at Llwynywermod estate in Wales.

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Annabel is married to a landowner named Simon Elliot and has three children – Ben, Alice and Catherine.

Siblings’ rivalry

One of the rare times that Camilla has spoken about her sister is when she talked about their sibling’s rivalry. Marie Claire confirms that Camilla buried her sister’s teddy bear. The two sisters apparently had an argument and the Camilla confessed:

My sister and I had a bit of an argument, so I buried him. It was sibling rivalry.
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Annabel Elliot and Camilla in 2015 Karwai Tang/ Getty Images

And Annabel seems to have still not forgiven the Queen Consort. On being asked:

Have you forgiven her?
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She answered:

Certainly not. It still rankles to this day.

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