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State Opening of Parliament

Each Parliamentary year begins in May when The King officially opens Parliament...
The King and Queen attend State Opening of Parliament

Key Themes of Her Majesty's Work

A speech by The Queen Consort at a ‘Violence Against Women and Girls’ Reception at Buckingham Palace

We are uniting today to confront, rightly, what has rightly been called a global pandemic of violence against women. Faced with such challenges, it can be hard to know what...

29 November 2022
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Literacy

Find out more about The Duchess of Cornwall's work supporting literacy
The Queen in a library
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Health

The Queen and Health Organisations
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The Arts

The Queen and the Arts

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Thank you for sharing your stories, thank you for your kindness, thank you for not remaining strangers to those enduring the darkest of times, and, most of all, thank you for...

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My father described the Regiment as a “highly efficient entity, highly skilled, and full of personalities”, I have no doubt that your upcoming deployments will be...

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Let your lives be the stones that will shatter glass ceilings everywhere and inspire generations to come.

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Between you, you have created more than a million stories of thought-provoking adventure for future generations to study and enjoy. Thank you to everybody who has taken part...

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Queen Camilla smiles after unveiling a plaque during a visit to the Swindon Domestic Abuse Support Service's (SDASS) in Wiltshire, to mark the charity's 50th anniversary and highlight their work in support, prevention, education and early intervention, including work with perpetrators of domestic abuse.