Prince & Princess of Wales

A surprise visit and investiture for the Prince of Wales with his beloved football

The Prince of Wales made a surprise visit to St George’s Park to wish the England female football team good luck ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. On Tuesday, 20 June, His Royal Highness arrived in Staffordshire and was welcomed by the FA’s Chief Executive Mark Bullingham, before being led to astonished players and staff of the team, who hadn’t been told in advance that the…
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Prince & Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales chats art with Sir Paul McCartney at official reopening of the National Portrait Gallery

The Princess of Wales has officially reopened the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery has undergone an extensive three-year refurbishment programme. The princess toured the new facilities—the most significant update of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery since 1896—and viewed several new exhibitions. And she had an extensive chat with the motivation behind one of them from the…
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Prince & Princess of Wales

The Princess of Wales thanks hospices for their work in special letter

The Princess of Wales has sent a message marking Children’s Hospice Week, praising how these carers “help families and allow children to be children.” In a letter from Kensington Palace, Catherine writes that children’s hospices “work tirelessly to provide life-changing care to families with the aim of making unbelievably difficult situations that little bit easier” and that she has…
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What is the Order of the Thistle?

This week, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles had appointed Queen Camilla to the Order of Thistle. The Order is the highest chivalric order in Scotland. King James VII founded the first confirmed iteration of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle in 1687. He claimed that he was reviving an earlier order; it may have been an order under King James III (who reigned from…
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