Meghan Markle and Prince Charles are the subjects of two new artworks (Image: Getty Images)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry might have walked away from their Royal duties – but they have been immortalised in new artworks by an artist who also painted Queen Elizabeth II.
They depict the pair, who quit the UK for California four years ago this summer, as Royals from the past, complete with their own historic titles.
Meghan’s portrait is called Returning White Queen and sees her as Dame Elizabeth Grey, the politically influential wife of King Edward IV. Meanwhile Harry, 39, is Charles Edward Stuart – aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender.
However, not everyone was impressed, with one referring to the King’s recent ‘red’ painting, saying: “Worse than Charles portrait and that’s saying something.” Another reckoned they looked like they’d been painted by a child.
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Prince Harry is depicted in the Llywelyn-Hall paintings as Bonnie Prince Charlie (Image: PA)
Meghan is shown as the White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville (Image: PA)
Others said they burst out laughing on seeing the paintings, with one chuckling: “Those pics have made my day,on the floor laughing with the tears rolling down my back.”
Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall explained the decisions behind the portraits, saying: “In Harry’s case, I have entered the story before he met Meghan the young party-goer with his future very much in the balance, a bit like the Bonnie Prince I have likened him to.
“I thought putting Meghan in the role of the White Queen, who was a Queen Consort and possibly the most influential ‘outsider’ in Royal history, might have a fine irony to it and not necessarily beyond the realms of reality.”
The paintings bring the number of portraits artist Dan, who painted the Queen at a sitting at Windsor Castle when he was just 32, to ten.
