Queen Camilla opted for a stylish forest green ensemble today as she represented the royal family at Westminster Abbey to attend the National Harvest Festival Service – while her husband, King Charles76, spent the afternoon meeting with Australian officials and indigenous leaders at the Australia High Commission.

The Queen, 78, looked delighted as she strolled alongside the Dean of Westminster and Lord Mayor of Westminster Paul Dimoldenberg on her way to the church.

The National Harvest Festival Service focussed on food self-sufficiency, food waste, and food poverty this year, all of which are issues that both Camilla and Charles take very seriously.

Today’s service was held in line with World Food Day and will see attendees from across local communities, food waste charities, and volunteer groups, including City Harvest, which ‘rescues’ and redistributes edible and nutritious food.

It has been organised by Love British Food, a national campaign that encourages people to support sustainable supply chains by purchasing UK-grown produce.

Camilla appeared in good spirits as she arrived at the event, with photographs showing her flashing a glamorous smile.

Stepping out at Westminster Abbe, she beamed beneath a deep emerald-green hat adorned with a velour accessory.

It was paired perfectly with a long-sleeved dress in the same shade. The frock, with a modest plunge neck, was decorated with a square silver broach pinned on her left side.

Ollie Plunket, Camilla’s first equerry, was also in attendance. Often touted as something of a heartthrob, the young equerry looked dashing in his uniform for The Riffles, the regiment Camilla has been colonel-in-chief of since 2020.

Charles and Camilla are both passionate about tackling food waste. On the King’s 75th birthday in 2023, they officially launched the coronation food project, an initiative aimed at tackling food poverty by redistributing excess food.

Through the Royal Family’s official social media, King Charles said in a statement: ‘Today is a most wonderful way to celebrate our Lord’s bounty through this year’s National Harvest Service in the magnificent setting of Westminster Abbey.

‘It is a time of year to give thanks to the custodians of our land in a tradition that stretches back centuries, yet remains ever relevant.

‘Their labour is the foundation of our food production, the heartbeat of rural communities and vital to the protection of the natural landscapes we all treasure so dearly.’

Last year, Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, said his stepfather feels so strongly about avoiding food waste that nothing is ever thrown away at their home in Clarence House. ‘If anything is leftover from the dinner, that will be made into something else or appear the next day. Nothing’s allowed to be thrown out,’ he said.

Meanwhile, Charles’s visit to the Australian High Commission – his first since he became King on September 8, 2022, in marked the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Handback of the Uluru National Park to its Traditional Owners.

The King watched a group of Aboriginal Australians perform a traditional dance and song as part of the celebration, and also met nine Aboriginal representatives and owners of the national park.

Charles looked smart during his visit in a blue pinstripe suit with a patterned blue tie, a pink and blue gingham handkerchief, and black shoes.

In 1983, he went to the protected area, located in the Northern Territory of Australia and was accompanied at the time by Diana, Princess of Wales.

The park is home to Uluru, also known as Ayer’s Rock, and Kata-Tjuta, also known as The Olgas. Together, they make up the large geological rock formations that are known as one of Australia’s most iconic landscapes.

The Anangu people, who are indigenous to the area and have lived there for more than 30,000 years, reclaimed ownership of the sacred land in 1985, after the Australian government handed back the title deeds.

Sammy Wilson, one of the nine Anangu representatives, said through a translator: ‘When you heard us singing our song, it’s from our grandmothers and grandfathers.

‘That place has always been ours, from a long way back. Our land is sacred. That is the song we were singing.’

Charles gifted a decorative plate that was created by Scottish slipware potters Fitch & McAndrew to the Anangu community.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had recorded a video message addressed to the King, which was played to the audience at Australia House.

In the message, he thanked Charles for taking this opportunity to meet with the traditional owners ahead of what is a deeply significant anniversary’.

‘It was a milestone in Aboriginal land rights in Australia and a powerful moment in the story of our continent, he added.

The last time Charles visited Australia House was in 2018, and he was accompanied at the time by his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

The Royal couple’s diaries are filled with engagements following their summer break, during which they spent August and September in Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Earlier this week, the Queen welcomed Peter Rabbit to Clarence house to celebrate the milestone anniversary of the BookTrust charity.

The fictional children’s character arrived at her London residence on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, of which Her Majesty is patron.

Camilla seemed to be in high spirits, as she beamed alongside Peter Rabbit, who was wearing a BookTrust sash along with his famous blue waistcoat for the A-list literary reception.

She also greeted friends and supporters of BookTrust, including the President of the organisation, Sir Michael Morpurgo; Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and authors Dame Floella Benjamin, Richard OsmanSir Philip Pullman, Dame Julia Donaldson, and Malorie Blackman.

Introduced to the large-than-life animal, Camilla enthusiastically shook his hand and happily posed for pictures with the famous rabbit from Beatrix Potter’s story books.

It was a fitting tribute to the charity that has provided a book from the series for every child in the UK before their first birthday through their programme Bookstart Baby.

This year’s book, a brand new Peter Rabbit title called Four Happy Bunnies, has been created exclusively for the scheme.

It will be gifted to around half a million babies and their families across the UK to encourage them to start reading as part of BookTrust’s collaboration with publisher Penguin Random House Children’s.

Camilla put her best fashion foot forward for the event and donned a long-sleeved navy blue embroidered dress with sheer tights and black pointed kitten heels.

She wore her blonde tresses in her signature wavy blowdry and paired her look with chic pearl drop earrings and her blue Van Cleef & Arpels clover bracelet.

As an avid reader, the Queen has a strong interest in highlighting the importance of literacy.

She became Patron of BookTrust in 2011, succeeding the late Duke of Edinburgh.

Alongside their book-gifting programmes, BookTrust works across the UK with partners from libraries and schools to local authorities and community hubs to provide advice and resources designed to encourage reading, aiming to embed it as a core part of early childhood.