Recent content by wbenson

I think the annual events like Trooping the Colour would be pretty safe. They happen every year, so there's not really a lot of news to make, and there isn't really a focus on a particular issue. What would be riskier are things like visits to charities, since their causes might happen to...

There's now going to be a general election in July. I wonder if that means another postponement, as happened to the Spanish visit in 2017.

I wonder if we'll see a tiara on Queen Camilla tomorrow morning for the Order of the British Empire service. If so, I'd guess the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland (which is what Queen Elizabeth II almost always wore to those services), or perhaps the Burmese Ruby tiara since the robe is a...

Geoffrey Fisher and Cosmo Lang also received the GCVO after the coronations that they performed.

The Sunday Times has new reporting on the arrangements for Harry's stay in London: King ‘offered Harry a royal residence for his visit’ (archive)

Does the UK even observe that protocol? Just from eyeballing the list, it looks like Elizabeth II received the longer-reigning monarchs of Sweden, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Belgium, Greece, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, and Afghanistan before she'd visited those monarchs (and in the case of Greece, Iraq...

The state visit is confirmed for June.

I think above. The Order of the Crown of India went above; this is slightly junior to that, but I think all of the official orders come first. Edit: On further review, I see that Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester wore the Order of the Crown of India below her RFOs and Princess Margaret wore...

https://www.royal.uk/appointments His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, K.G., K.T., A.D.C., to be Great Master of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Her Majesty The...

Four new members, including the Duchess of Gloucester, and some appointments to other orders: https://www.royal.uk/appointments His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint four new Companions to the Order of the Garter. The Companions are: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of...

Thomas Kingston, the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, died from “traumatic head wound” and a gun was found near to his body in an outbuilding at his parent’s home in the Cotswolds, an inquest opening at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court heard

Not naming them in the Gazette is the norm. They'd be named in the actual letters patent, but since 1980 the London Gazette just prints a short notification rather than the full text. You can see the full document for the Germany trip here, with the usual lack of any punctuation whatsoever, and...

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4369834 They were also used for the visit to Germany, but apparently not the rescheduled visit to France or the visit to Kenya. (I say apparently because I've noticed at least one gap in what was published in the London Gazette. We know from the Court...

I think it was during the Golden Jubilee tour. She was elsewhere in the UK a lot more than usual that year.

A long article in last weekend's Sunday Times about the unorthodox doctor who now heads the medical household: Revealed: the homeopath in charge of King Charles’s health (archive)