Following His Majesty The King’s Accession, the Royal Household is conducting a review of Royal Patronage. The review will cover the organisations of which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was Patron and those organisations to which The King and The Queen Consort were connected through Patronage or Presidency as Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.
Members of the Royal Family have links with hundreds of charities, military associations, professional bodies and public service organisations. Some are well known, while others may be smaller bodies working in a very specialist area or on a local basis only.
Having a Royal patron or president provides vital publicity for the work of these organisations, and allows their enormous achievements and contributions to society to be recognised.
You can use this database to find the organisations with which members of the Royal Family are associated.
The 18th Division of Armed Forces that were in captivity for 3 and a half years in the Far East during the second world war were in the main made up of the Royal Norfolk's, the Suffolk's and Cambridgeshire regiments and were taken at the fall of Singapore in February 1942.
Region: UK-wide
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Royal Patron
For the study of the history of engineering and technology
Region: UK-wide
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Patron
Website: https://www.orientalceramicsociety.org.uk
Informal scholarly society supporting knowledge and understanding of the arts of Asia.
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Patron
Website: https://www.peelinstitute.org.uk
Community charity providing education, counselling and after-school clubs in central London.
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Patron
Website: https://www.reformclub.com
Private members' club in London.
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Honorary Member
The King, Joint Honorary Members
The Queen, Joint Honorary Members
Website: https://www.army.mod.uk
Unit of the British Army.
Region: UK-wide
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Royal Colonel
The Queen, Colonel in Chief
Website: https://www.raf.mod.uk
Aviation section of the British Armed Services
Region: UK-wide
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Kent, Honorary Air Chief Marshal
The Duke of Gloucester, Honorary Air Marshal
Website: https://www.army.mod.uk/poachers
Infantry regiment for the ten counties of East Anglia and the East Midlands.
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Colonel-In-Chief
Website: https://www.royalanglianassociation.co.uk
SVCS, ARMY,
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
The Duke of Gloucester, Patron
Agricultural society organising the annual Bath & West Agricultural Show.
Region: UK (England)
Members of the Royal Family:
Queen Elizabeth II, Patron
The Duke of Gloucester, Vice President
The Duchess of Edinburgh, Vice Patron
The Princess Royal, Vice President
