Read previewIf King Charles had high hopes for how the world would react to his first official portrait, they might be dashed by now. King Charles and Jonathan Yeo met four times between 2021 and 2023 for the painting. AdvertisementIts red color is particularly evocative, Khan added. Jonathan Yeo was a 'safe choice' for a royal portrait, one critic saidKhan said he's fairly confident that drawing links to the royal family's murky past with colonialism wasn't on Yeo's agenda. AdvertisementKhan, the London-based critic, admitted that he likes at least one element of the royal portrait.

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Persons: —, King Charles, Jonathan Yeo, AARON CHOWN, Queen Camilla, Yeo, Tabish Khan, Khan, he's, it's, Stanley Kubrick's, wasn't, Jonathan, Charles, There's, Richard Morris, Morris, Henry VIII, Philip Mould, HENRY NICHOLLS Organizations: Service, Business, Getty, Rhode Island School of Design Locations: British, Buckingham, Washington, London