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The Duke of Cambridge visits Kuwait and Oman

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The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit New Zealand

Published 18 November 2019

Her Majesty The Queen visits The Royal Philatelic Society

Published 26 November 2019

Investitures

Today Her Majesty The Queen held an investiture at Buckingham Palace.

Over 65 people received their well-deserved honours.

Among today’s recipients were:
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▪️Sir Archibald Tunnock is knighted for services to business and charity. Sir Archibald is the owner of Tunnock’s, a family-owned confectionary business in Scotland and created the company’s famous tea cake.
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▪️Dame Sara Thornton is made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Prder of the British Empire for services to Policing.
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▪️Christie Spurling, founder of @ngage01, a Manchester-based charity which reaches out to kids at risk of educational or social exclusion, received an MBE from The Queen.
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▪️Detective Superintendent Mark Gower receives an OBE for leading the UK response to the 2015 terrorist attacks in Tunisia, and his counter-terrorism work.
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▪️Sheila Morrow, Director of @gbhockey, was presented with an OBE for her contributions to hockey in Wales.

Congratulations to all of today’s recipients! 👏

The Countess of Wessex's visit to New York and Toronto

The Prince of Wales visits The Solomon Islands

Published 25 November 2019

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History of the Christmas Broadcast

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The First Televised Christmas Broadcast

1957 saw The Queen’s first televised Christmas message, broadcast live from the Long Library at Sandringham, Norfolk.

The Queen’s grandfather, King George V broadcast the first Christmas message in 1932. The text for King George’s speech was written by poet and writer Rudyard Kipling and included the words, “I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all.”
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Follow #ARoyalChristmas throughout December 🎄 and watch the 1957 broadcast in full via the link in our bio ✨

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Tonight, members of the Royal Family are at the Royal Albert Hall for the Festival of Remembrance.
The annual event, held in honour of those who have given their lives in the service of their country, has been marked since 1923.
Tomorrow, Remembrance events culminate in the Cenotaph service on Whitehall which will be attended by more than 10,000 veterans and serving members of the Armed Forces. 📸 Press Association

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watched last night’s Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium before meeting performers onstage.

The event is held each year in aid of the Royal Variety Charity helps those in need who have worked professionally in the entertainment industry, either behind-the-scenes or as performers.

The charity owns and manages its own residential and nursing care home for elderly entertainers - Brinsworth House in Twickenham, which was visited by The Duchess of Sussex in 2018. 📸 Press Association

Rugby World Cup anthem at Guard Change

🌊 On Saturday, The Earl of Wessex met young people working to achieve their #DofE @international_award with @slsaustralia, Australia’s major water safety, drowning prevention and rescue authority.

The International Award is celebrating its 60th anniversary in Australia this year 🎉🇦🇺 Since its inception in 1959, over 775,000 young Australians have completed the Award.

Follow the link in our bio for more on #RoyalVisitAustralia!

During the #RoyalVisitJapan today, The Prince of Wales visited Zōjōji Temple in Tokyo, where he was greeted by Yagi-daika, the Head Monk of Zōjōji.

Zōjōji is one of the headquarters of the Jodo tradition of Japanese Buddhism. HRH learnt about the temple’s history and toured the Buddhist Scripture Storage Hall.

The Prince also met crew on board @RoyalNavy ship HMS Enterprise and heard about the work being done to combat plastics in the ocean and climate change.
#RoyalVisitJapan
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Congratulations to @rifles_regiment,
this year’s winners of The Countess of Wessex Cup.
The annual event sees personnel from The Countess’s honorary military appointments compete against each other in a series of challenges.
Today’s teams are from @RAFWittering, @Corps_Army_Music and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps as well as 5 Rifles.
Honorary military appointments help maintain close links between the Royal Family and the Armed Forces, of which The Queen is Head.

This afternoon, The Duchess attended a performance and tea party for the @poetry_together initiative.

Launched by @gylesbrandreth, the scheme encourages schools to link with care homes - bringing people of all ages together to learn a poem by heart. 200 schools and elderly groups, from all over the UK, have got involved with the initiative and today, 5 groups had the opportunity to perform for HRH. The Duchess even had a go at reciting a poem by heart herself! 🎭

Following the performance, the participants were invited to have tea and cake together. ☕️🍰 #poetrytogether2019
📷 Clarence House

Today The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated the work of volunteers from the charity 'Shout', at London's Troubadour White City Theatre.

@giveusashoutinsta volunteers work across the UK from their own homes and provide a free text support service for people in crisis, 24-hours a day.

The text service was developed by The Royal Foundation as a legacy of the Heads Together Campaign. It was launched by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, @kensingtonroyal and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, @sussexroyal, in May 2019.

Today’s event brought together Shout's virtual community under one roof. Together they could meet and see the scale of the national network they have joined.

So far 1500 people have trained to volunteer with Shout and over 6 million texts messages have been exchanged with people in crisis.

For support in a crisis text ‘SHOUT’ to 8️⃣5️⃣2️⃣5️⃣8️⃣ ☎️

The Earl of Wessex visited Surrey Hills Enterprises this week, an organisation which supports and develops local businesses, to champion the rural economy and promote and protect the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The Earl met Mandira Sarkar at Mandira’s Kitchen, and joined in the cookery fun by breaking the dough seal on a biriyani.

HRH visited other local businesses including Norbury Park Farm Cheese, where he chatted with Michaela Allam, and Albury organic vineyard, where he met representatives from the five vineyards of the Surrey Hills.

His Royal Highness met Surrey Hills Ambassadors, partners and members including 15 year-old Blacksmith, Jack Kerr, who was awarded Young Entrepreneur 2019.

During the visit, The Earl was pleased to present a Queens Award for Voluntary Service to the Surrey Hills Society. The Award recognises more than 70 volunteers for their outstanding contributions in support of the @surreyhillsaonb.

Marking 50 years of @CentrepointUK’s work to #ChangeTheStory for homeless young people — The Duke of Cambridge opened Centrepoint’s new Apprenticeship House, which aims to support young people in their journey to independent living.

As part of a wider ambitious programme developing modular housing solutions in London and Manchester to support young people moving on from supported accommodation and into work, the charity has transformed an existing building in South London into a seven bed shared home for young people on apprenticeship programmes.

Since starting out in the basement of St Anne's Church in 1969, Centrepoint has grown to become the UK's leading youth homelessness charity, supporting over 9,000 homeless young people a year.

Centrepoint was one of the first charities The Duke of Cambridge became Patron of (in 2005), having visited their services with his mother as a child.

Visit the link in our bio to find out more about how The Duke is marking 50 years of Centrepoint, and read more about the charity’s work providing homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills to get them back into education, training and employment 📷 Kensington Palace

Today, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined Her Majesty The Queen and members of @TheRoyalFamily at the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph to commemorate and honour the men and women who have lost their lives in conflict.

As shared at last night’s Festival of Remembrance, this quote embodies the sacrifice of those that serve:
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“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
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For more details of this week of Remembrance and their Royal Highness’s recognition for those who serve, please see previous posts.

#WeWillRememberThem
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The Prince of Wales kicked off this year’s Autumn Tour today with engagements in New Delhi, India. 🇮🇳 #RoyalVisitIndia

In celebration of the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak, The Prince of Wales visited Bangla Sahib Gurdwara, where HRH met members of the Sikh community and tried his hand at making a chapati! The visit follows a week of festivities celebrating the founder of Sikhism.

Earlier today, The Prince met @presidentofindia at Rashtrapati Bhavan and planted a tree in the Presidential Garden. 🌳 HRH also visited the India Meteorological Department where, in the National Weather Forecasting Centre, HRH heard about the the new cyclone forecasting system allowing faster preparation and response time for India and other countries. 🌀

The Prince was also able to test out one of the city’s e-rickshaws, a sustainable alternative to traditional transport, which have been developed by clean energy company SUN Mobility.
📷 Press Association / @ukinindia

Press Releases

3 December 2019

New patronage announced for The Duchess of Cambridge

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20 November 2019

A statement by His Royal Highness The Duke of York

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19 November 2019

The Duke of Cambridge's visit to Kuwait and Oman

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1 November 2019

A message from Her Majesty The Queen to the England Rugby Team

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31 October 2019

A message from The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to The President of Pakistan

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17 October 2019

The Queen's message to the Governors and people of New South Wales and Queensland

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