カミラ英王妃、バービー人形に

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】バービー人形は、映画でアカデミー賞主要部門の受賞こそ逃したが、１２日に新たな仲間を迎えた。英国のカミラ王妃をモデルにしたバービーだ。（写真はカミラ王妃をモデルにしたバービー人形。英バッキンガム宮殿で）
　バービーの贈呈は、ウィメン・オブ・ワールド基金の理事長としての王妃の活動をたたえるもの。
　王妃のバービーは、「フィオナ・クレア」の青いドレスと「アマンダ・ウェイクリー」の黒いケープ、そして「エリオット・ゼッド」の黒いブーツという王妃とおそろいの衣装を身に着けている。
　バービーを贈られた王妃は、「あなたは（私より）５０歳くらい若返っている。誰もがバービーを持つべきね」とジョークを飛ばした。
　贈呈式が行われたのは「ＷＯＷガールズ・フェスティバル・バス」の車内。バスは、ジェンダーの平等を推進するために英国各地を巡回し、最終目的地のロンドン中心部にあるバッキンガム宮殿に到着した。
　式には、ベルギーのマチルド王妃や、映画『バービー』でナレーターを務めた俳優のヘレン・ミレンさんも出席した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/03/13-17:32）

Barbie may not have won at the Oscars, but she made a new friend Tuesday: Queen Camilla, who was immortalised as one of the iconic dolls.
You?ve taken about 50 years off (me)... we should all have a Barbie, the queen joked as she was presented with the doll modelled closely on her own image.
Camilla, 76, whose cancer-stricken husband King Charles III has currently stepped back from royal duties, was presented with the gift in recognition of her work as president of the Women of the World (WOW) Foundation.
She was joined by Mathilde, Queen of Belgium and actor Helen Mirren, the narrator of last year's blockbuster Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
The film, released last year, has been a box office success but missed out on all but one of the nine Oscars it was nominated for at last week's Academy Awards.
Mirren, 78, won her own best actress Oscar in 2007 for The Queen in which she played the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Last week she also received her own Barbie doll, dressed just like her and complete with a tiny Oscar statuette.
Camilla's doll was dressed in a scaled down version of the her outfit -- a blue Fiona Clare dress, black cape by Amanda Wakeley and Eliot Zed black boots.
It was presented to her on board the WOW Girls Festival Bus which has toured the country promoting gender equality and made a final stop at the royal family's Buckingham Palace residence in central London.