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Prince Charles issues plea to children to help save the planet in a foreword to a new book

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31st October 2021
The Prince of Wales has written a foreword for a children’s book highlighting the importance of climate conservation ahead of the COP26 climate conference.  The Prince’s Foundation, What On Earth Publishing, and author Christopher Lloyd have come together to create It’s Up To Us, a book that will be given out to Scottish schoolchildren ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. It features illustrations…
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Camilla congratulates winners of Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition

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29th October 2021
The Duchess of Cornwall drew words of wisdom from a favourite redheaded literary character (and met another famous ginger) when she welcomed young winners of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition to St James’s Palace for a special reception. Sharing a passage from the novel “Anne of Green Gables,” Camilla, who serves as Vice Patron of the Royal Commonwealth…
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Charles and Camilla launch the Royal British Legion’s centenary poppy appeal

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28th October 2021
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall have helped launch the Royal British Legion’s Centenary Poppy Appeal on Wednesday, hosting a reception for 10 generations of poppy collectors at Clarence House. During the reception, Prince Charles and Camilla met 95-year-old Jill Gladwell, who began collecting the Legion’s poppies during the Second World War, and inspired the younger…
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The Duchess of Cornwall speaks movingly of her mother’s illness

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26th October 2021
The Duchess of Cornwall sat down for an interview with BBC One’s Morning Live to mark World Osteoporosis Day to discuss osteoporosis and the effects it has had on her mother and grandmother. Speaking with presenter Gloria Hunniford, Camilla recalled taking her mother to doctors, who blamed old age for any conditions, and who would sometimes scream in pain if touched. She said, “I remember…
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