The sinister portrait of Charles III by Jonathan Yeo, unveiled in 2024, in which the king's figure drowned in the crimson haze of the underworld, has made it into Buckingham Palace after all

The sinister portrait of Charles III by Jonathan Yeo, unveiled in 2024, in which the king's figure drowned in the crimson haze of the underworld, has made it into Buckingham Palace after all. The Royal Collection has accepted as a gift a large preparatory study for that portrait, and it now hangs in the Silk Tapestry Room, beside Titian, Vermeer and Caravaggio.

To mark the addition of this clot of ectoplasm to the collection, the coral velvet on the walls of the room at Buckingham Palace has given way to green damask. The full portrait of the bloody Charles itself remains in the hall of the Drapers' Company, which commissioned it back when our dark convert was still Prince of Wales

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