{"id":281376,"date":"2024-05-17T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=332569"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:29:16","slug":"the-coronation-portrait-of-king-carlos-iii-is-making-everyone-on-the-internet-laugh-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-coronation-portrait-of-king-carlos-iii-is-making-everyone-on-the-internet-laugh-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The coronation portrait of King Carlos III is making everyone on the Internet laugh to death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many traditions that, even though they are archaic, still make sense. For example, creating an official portrait of a new incoming king. <strong>In the past, it served to immortalize the rulers and give them a sense of importance<\/strong>, something that may not be necessary today with photography, but still holds some meaning. It is a demonstration of status. Of power. Even if it doesn&#8217;t turn out as well as the represented individuals would like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 14th, King Charles III of England presented the first official royal portrait alongside Queen Camilla and artist Jonathon Yeo. <strong>The painting depicts the king wearing a scarlet uniform of the Welsh Guard, with a background of red, pink, and scarlet brushstrokes<\/strong>. This gives the whole ensemble an ominous and unique appearance, far from what we expect from a royal portrait. Something that, along with the inclusion of a butterfly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanyeo.com\/king-charles-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">the painter has defined<\/a> as &#8220;a symbol of metamorphosis and rebirth&#8221;. In addition to &#8220;a visual contrast with the military rigidity of the uniform and sword&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">King Charles&#39; portrait makes him look like the hardest Elden Ring boss <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xb256WVQSD\">pic.twitter.com\/xb256WVQSD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wraff (@wrafferino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wrafferino\/status\/1790620774241304866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem is that this painting, besides having a quite questionable adaptation to the context, does not fit at all with the image that a real portrait wants to convey. <strong>This has led people on the Internet to compare it to something that we don&#8217;t believe would please the English king: the final bosses of From Software games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comparisons with Dark Souls and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superdannynp\/status\/1790764664923500730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Elden Ring<\/a> have not been delayed, but they should not surprise us either. <strong>The use of colors and the contrast between the real and the military situates it well in a dark fantasy context.<\/strong> Even more striking is how well it fits into other contexts, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshscherr\/status\/1790451060806468022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">the steampunk fantasy of Dishonored<\/a>, the game from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/microsoft-has-decided-to-close-four-bethesda-game-studios-all-at-once\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">recently closed Arkane Austin<\/a>, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/senn_twt\/status\/1790518505634480157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">in the walls of Doom<\/a>, a game with which it shares a certain taste for color-based textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who was connected to social media trends or how memes work could have seen what was going to happen. <strong>Of course, the artistic community that can make a real portrait and the world of nobility are not exactly characterized by having a great awareness of the present<\/strong>. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re not surprised that this work of art, in more than one sense, is killing Internet with laughter. Not without good reasons, if you ask us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the bloodied horses that rampaged through london 2 weeks ago and the king charles slaughterhouse floor portrait are related. I don&#39;t know how yet but they are <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8a36FCAgTT\">pic.twitter.com\/8a36FCAgTT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ??? Holly ??? (@SparrowLucero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SparrowLucero\/status\/1790957762803060770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal portraits are not very typical of the 21st century, but since kings still exist, royal portraits continue to exist&#8230; with hilarious results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":281378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[5113,6613],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-281376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elden-ring","tag-rey-carlos-iii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313131,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281376\/revisions\/313131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281376"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=281376"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=281376"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=281376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}