Louise Pentland, a YouTube legend, revealed details about her interactions with King Charles and Queen Camilla as well as a special invitation to the monarch’s private country home.
Louise Pentland has revealed she was left flustered after meeting King Charles. This, however, was not the YouTube icon’s first meeting with the Monarch who ascended to the throne in 2022.
The social media star who first launched her channel in January 2010 has gone on to amass over 195 million views on the platform, with a staggering 2.17 million followers. Louise, 40, was part of the original group of what are now known as social media influencers, alongside the likes of Joe Sugg, Caspar Lee, Jim Chapman, Marcus Butler, Niomi Smart, Tanya Burr, Zoe Sugg and Alfie Deyes.
Collectively, the group were known as the Brit Crew – although this wasn’t a name that they chose themselves. Since launching her channel and her blog, Louise has travelled the world and worked with some of the biggest brands, including her favourite, Disney – but she admits working with the King and Queen is one of her major highlights.
“Really cool, it was really cool,” she said of working with the then Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in 2018. Louise went on to reveal to the Mirror: “It was a real honour, I worked with them a long time ago with YouTube around the now Queen Camilla’s charity, Bookstart and that was amazing.
I met the current King, and I thought, “Wow, what an incredible opportunity.” I have closely followed and supported them in every way, and I adore the charities they choose. I also adore that King Charles cares about protecting the heritage.
“I love that Camilla is so into books and literacy, especially for children,” she says. I’ve been following them for a long time. As the mother of Darcey, 14, and Pearl, 7, this subject is also near and dear to Louise’s heart. She continued, “Last year, The King’s Foundation, which was The Prince’s Foundation, invited me to Highgrove – it was boujee. Afternoon tea was served, which was really cool.
“I went back at Christmas, met His Majesty The King, had a little handshake, had a little chat, and he had to move on. On the outside, I was cool and chill about it. I’ll go as far as to say it was the best opportunity I’ve ever had. It was also incredibly generous because we each had our own three-tier little tray!”
But while Louise has previously appeared on the likes of ITV’s Lorraine and Loose Women, she admits she never knows what is around the corner with TV work, but has ruled out appearing on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! “Me on I’m A Celeb would be horrendous,” she laughed joking that she wouldn’t cope on the flight to Australia, let alone in the jungle.
Louise acknowledges that the biggest lesson she’s learned is that you can’t please everyone after almost 20 years of running her channel. You will never be able to please everyone, she said, regardless of how good you are, how careful you are, or how anything else. Louise says the most important lesson she has learned is that you must know that you are being true to yourself, even though she can’t please everyone.
This was confirmed by Louise’s change to her YouTube channel, which revealed that she would no longer produce content for teenagers but rather for her older audience. She acknowledges that many people abandoned her but later found her again on new websites, including TikTok.
Before joining YouTube, Louise set up a blog while working as a receptionist in Liverpool after graduating from college, and she admits she had no idea how quickly her career would explode. I created a YouTube channel out of the desire to see if the channel might help to draw in some more visitors. Then, “she laughed,” the YouTube Channel began to air.
She continued, explaining that it was her “most wonderful, amazing experience” to make YouTube her full-time job while taking maternity leave from Darcey. It was truly the best experience of my life, she continued, “aside from motherhood.” I simply never imagined that things would turn out this way and that I would gain the knowledge I do. Louise acknowledges that there have been downturns in her career, but the positives far outweigh these.
Louise has spoken about her hyperpigmentationation journey with Nivea in their I AM… Thiamidol campaign. She said, “I’m 40, and the first time I ever thought about skin that way was when I was a teenager.”
Louise revealed that a fellow student pointed out stretch marks in one of her all-girls’ changing rooms while they were in the changing rooms. She said, “It has been difficult to shake that off for my entire life because they had kind of introduced me to me in such a negative light.
“Obviously, I’ve gone through different things in life that have changed my skin, I’ve gone through puberty and then pregnancy, twice. And now I’m starting the early days of the ageing process into a middle-aged woman, which I’m very glad to be doing, it’s a privilege to age.” Louise admits that she no longer feels negative and having a product which has Thiamidol in gives her a “bit of reassurance.”
Working with Nivea was a no-brainer for Louise as the brand aligned with her personal views, given its deep roots in families across the world. “To find a new product from them with Thiamidol is a little bit exciting,” she gushed, before adding it was a “real honour” to be involved in the campaign alongside Dani Dyer, Louise Redknapp and Paul C Brunson.
She acknowledges that working with Dani, Louise, and Paul was “really good” because Darcey, her young daughter, sat in the corner and yelled “slay queen” during the photo shoot, which she says was “really good”! She joked that “it was a lovely day, and the big billboard was really cool because it was so simple and quick.”
Louise, 40, admits that “a lot of water” is the secret to great skin, before stating that she does a “full proper cleanse” every night before going to bed. Louise said she feels “great” despite being 40 years old and doesn’t feel old. She continued, “We make products like Nivea and Thiamidol that are effective for any issue you may have.” Not just hyperpigmentation, marks, and other such things are present. There are so many resources available to give you the confidence you need in order to deal with so many of the things you might be worried about.
Source: Mirror
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