Royal Facialist Praises 77-Year-Old Queen Camilla's "Incredibly Young Skin" | Vanity Fair

In December, Queen Camilla awarded a coveted Royal Warrant to her facialist, Deborah Mitchell, a skincare expert based in London. The 400-year-old system is the way that the royal family gives credit to the businesses who supply them, and now Mitchell can open up about what it has been like to work with Camilla on her royal visage. “I’ve known for 18 years what a beautiful person she is,” the facialist told People. “She’s beautiful on both the inside and outside and always has been.”

The magazine added that Mitchell has been visiting the 77-year-old queen at home every other week for nearly two decades, and also supplies King Charles III with face products. “When I first met the Queen, I couldn’t even tell my Mum! I would go off to Clarence House and all these other places in secret,” she said. “She thought I was doing another celebrity! Nobody knew, I couldn’t say a word, but occasionally [Camilla] would say how much she loved my bee venom products, and eventually the palace confirmed it to the press.”

Mitchell started her company at her kitchen table more than 40 years ago because she couldn’t afford the premium products she wanted to use, and receiving the royal honor makes her feel like all of her work has paid off. “I’m flying high!” she added. “It’s just such a wonderful feeling, and to have it for both my products and my treatments, it’s so special.”

Because Mitchell has gotten to watch Camilla up close as she went from being the Duchess of Cornwall to the Queen Consort of Great Britain, she has special insight into what those years have been like. 'She has incredibly young skin,” she said. “I can do a treatment and so many weeks later, I’ll go back and just go ‘Wow’ because she really looks after her skin.”

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