King Charles: First official portrait since coronation is unveiled, painted by Jonathan Yeo

—And the BBC *still* can't spell "Queen Carmilla" right!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68981200

King Charles: First official portrait since coronation is unveiled, painted by Jonathan Yeo

Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told the artist: "Yes, you've got him."

BBC News
@cstross Stephen King-approved, I see.
@cstross Unhinge the jaw, and it could pass as something from @wefail
@cstross For a moment there, on a small screen, I thought he was going to cameo in the next Spider-verse movie.
@cstross Good old PaleGrace makeup line…
@cstross Is this the new Impressionism: if you stare into his eyes you get the impression the rest of the painting is not there?

@cstross

When you're King, Anton Sokolov is going to return your call.

@cstross ok this one is almost TOOOO easy for you. They couldn’t have made it more Laundry Files ready had they intentionally set out to do so.
@cstross I immediately thought of the portrait from the 1940s Picture of Dorian Gray, particularly when it suddenly bursts into colour.
@drdjohnston @cstross painted by the great Ivan Albright, the master of seamed and exhausted flesh
@cstross I get strawberry jam vibes from this.
@cstross ooo that's smart. Anything that is not man is dissolving to the background leaving only human as his royal role is losing relevance.
@cstross Charles is King, and everything around him is on fire. Sounds about right.
@cstross Looks like it could be a cover from a book in the Anno Dracula universe. Either that or Chuck has finally achieved his wish of becoming Camilla's tampon.
@cstross The devil sent his son to Earth in the form of an old king with instructions to "finish the job".
@cstross At long last, we have turned the government over to an Outer God, as depicted in @cstross's classic sci-fi novel Don't Turn The Government Over To An Outer God
@cstross love it, he's already fading into... the flocked wallpaper, the meat curtains, the flesh mist of oblivion? good lord

@cstross No, not creepy at all…

Can we get the next one with some sad clowns in the background perhaps?

/s