British Royals

When King Charles III delivers his Christmas broadcast, the words matter – but so too does the setting. Since ascending the throne, the King has made a series of deliberate choices about where he speaks from on Christmas Day, each location offering a subtle clue to how he understands the monarchy, faith and his own role as sovereign. Taken together, the settings form a quiet narrative…

King Charles and Queen Camilla made their first joint public appearance since the monarch’s moving cancer announcement last week, hosting a reception at St James’s Palace for the crew and families of HMS Prince of Wales. The warship returned to Portsmouth last month following a six-month Indo-Pacific deployment covering 40 countries across the Mediterranean, Middle East, South East Asia…

The King has met a group of people whose courage helped save lives during the violent attack on a train near Huntingdon last month, welcoming them to Buckingham Palace in a private audience that underscored the monarchy’s longstanding recognition of quiet heroism. Among those invited was Andrew Johnson, the train driver whose calm judgement and swift action were credited with helping to bring…