Queen Camilla's very unexpected hobby - and she's extremely competitive

It turns out can be pretty competitive at one of her favourite - and entirely unexpected - hobbies.

In a revealing sit down with to mark her 75th birthday, Camilla, then-Duchess of Cornwall, she admitted that she has one particular hobby that she takes part in on a daily basis - a pastime that so many people do up and down the country.

Camilla admitted that this hobby is something she shares with her granddaughters, Lola Parker Bowles, 17, and Eliza Lopes, aged 16 - and she joked in the interview that she gets fiercely competitive about it. The hobby in question is none other than the viral word game Wordle, which became seriously popular back in 2022 - the same year the interview took place.

Wordle is a daily puzzle - now run by the New York Times - that works by guessing five-letter words. Letters from your guess that are in the correct position are marked as green, those that are in the word, but you have guessed in the wrong place as yellow, and those that aren't in your guess get greyed out.

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The game became a total phenomenon and still remains a daily fixture in many people's group chats - and it turns out that Camilla is no exception to this. "I do Wordle every day with my granddaughter. She'll text me to say, 'I've done it in three', and I say, 'Sorry, I've done it in two today.' It's very satisfactory when it tells you how brilliant you are," Camilla joked to the fashion magazine.

This wasn't the only insight Camilla gave into her close relationships with her granddaughters Lola and Eliza, she also discussed how it felt to watch them grow up and become interested in things that seem a bit more adult, with the interviewer noting how the now-Queen's face lit up as she discussed her five grandchildren.

"You know the nice thing about being a grandmother is that you can spoil them occasionally, give them more of the things that their parents forbid them to have...One's at a school very near my house, so when I am in Wiltshire and her parents are away, I can nip over and pick her up and take her home. The girls are beginning to get into clothes and make-up and, you know, it's rather frightening when you see them, coming out with pierced ears and a lot of new make-up and funny-coloured hair and stuff".

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