King Charles & Queen Camilla top Tatler’s Social Power Index

Here are some (ghastly) photos of King Charles and the Queen Consort in Poundbury on Tuesday. It still cracks me up, in an admittedly juvenile way, that Charles created this walkable town and he decided to name it “Poundbury.” Not Poundtown, not Poundshire, but still, I giggle. Anyway, Camilla looked half in the bag in most of these photos and they should really begin to phase in some events for Camilla where she just gets to be seated the whole time. Cam and Chuck were in Poundtown to view/unveil a new bust/statue of Prince Philip.

Meanwhile, did you know that Tatler Magazine finally revealed their Social Power Index for 2023? We were all waiting for it with bated breath! According to Tatler, Charles and Camilla are the very top of the British social-power pyramid. Prince William and Kate didn’t even make the top ten!!

The King and Queen have topped Tatler’s Social Power Index for 2023. Charles and Camilla secured the number one spot in the annual list described by the society bible as a “report into where the real power lies in British society” after also coming top last year. The royal couple are joined on the list by the King’s equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson, who is ranked at number three.

Hugh Grosvenor, the seventh Duke of Westminster, appears on the list at number six alongside Olivia Henson to whom he became engaged earlier this year. Prince George’s godfather, one of the UK’s richest men, took over his family’s billion-pound fortune and estate when his father, Gerald, died in 2016 after having a heart attack while walking on his Abbeystead Estate.

The Tatler index also features a host of “It Girls”, football stars, philanthropists and fashion designers. The magazine said other notable entries in the full list include the Prince and Princess of Wales, footballer Marcus Rashford, couples Eddie and Hannah Redmayne, Rita Ora and Taika Waititi, and Emily Maitlis and Mark Gwynne. Here is the top 10:

1. King Charles III and Queen Camilla
2. Sanjay and Anu Hinduja
3. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Thompson
4. Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa
5. Charlotte Tilbury and George Waud
6. The Duke of Westminster and Olivia Henson
7. Richard and Patricia Caring
8. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
9. Jemma, Countess of Mornington, and Arpad Busson
10. Isabella Weatherby

[From Yahoo UK]

Not only am I powerless, I am unaware of who has the most social clout in the UK, because I don’t know who many of those people are. I just think it’s funny that Buttons and Pegwards didn’t make the top ten, although it does seem that they’re somewhere on the list. Not everyone can get the cover of Time Magazine’s Most Influential issue.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

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