Weekly Update to 19th November, 2023
MISSING DAYS from the CC on the British Monarch Website:
28th – 31st October (39) and 15th – 19th November (67) – 106 engagements (4.01%)
Milestones achieved this week: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh reached his 300th engagement for the year in total (as DoE and EoW)
Approaching a milestone: NIL
Total Engagements with Individual Percentage of Total
HM The King – 522 (501 – up 21 – 19.8%)
HM The Queen Consort – 228 (223 – up 5 – 8.6%)
HRH The Prince of Wales –175 (171 – up 4 – 6.6%)
HRH The Princess of Wales – 129 (125 – up 4 – 4.9%)
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 253 (235 – up 22 – 9.5%)
HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh – 175 (169 – up 6 – 6.6%)
HRH The Princess Royal – 489 (471 – up 18 – 18.5%)
Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 106 (101 – up 4 – 4.0%)
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 189 (181 – up 8 – 7.2%)
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester – 124 (119 – up 5 – 4.7%)
The League Table
HM The King – 522
HRH The Princess Royal – 489
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 253
HM The Queen Consort – 228
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 189
HRH The Prince of Wales – 175
HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh – 175
HRH The Princess of Wales – 129
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester – 124
Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 106
HRH The Duke of Kent – 84
HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honorable Lady Ogilvy – 5
Year to Date Total – 2640 (2546 – up 94)
Percentage and Total of Engagements
90s (Katherine Kent) – 1 (0.04%)
80s (Edward Kent, Alexandra, Michael) – 92 (3.5%)
70s (Charles, Camilla, Anne, Richard, Birgitte, Marie-Christine) – 1554 (58.9%)
60s (Andrew, Tim) – 112 (4.2%)
50s (Edward, Sophie) – 541 (20.5%)
40s (William, Catherine, Meghan) – 310 (11.7%)
30s (Harry, Beatrice, Edoardo, Eugenie, Jack) – 9 (0.3%)
20s (Louise) – 0 (0.0%)
10s (George, James) – 7 (0.3%)
0s (Charlotte, Louis, Archie, Lilibet) – 14 (0.5%)
Over Retirement Age (65) – 1753 (66.4%)
Number of Days on which a royal undertook Official Engagements to 19th November, 2023
HM The King – 139 (up 4)
HM The Queen – 94 (up 3)
HRH The Prince of Wales – 103 (up 2)
HRH The Princess of Wales – 90 (up 3)
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 106 (up 7)
HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh – 81 (up 3)
HRH The Princess Royal – 180 (up 5)
Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 50 (up 3)
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 106 (up 4)
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester – 81 (up 3)
HRH The Duke of Kent – 65 (no change)
HRH Princess Alexandra – 4 (no change)
Royal Palaces where Events Occurred to 19th November, 2023
Buckingham Palace – 38
Buckingham Palace – The King – 206
Windsor Castle – 114
St James’ Palace – 106
Marlborough House – 3
Highgrove House – 1
Cathedrals, Abbeys, Chapels etc (Royal Peculiars in Particular)
Westminster Abbey – 12
Types of Engagements from 13th November, 2023to 19th November, 2023
Just a reminder that this is the type of engagement that occurred in the past week, but the total is the total for the year not just for the week.
Anniversary – 125
Appointed – 2
Arrived – 73
Audience – 92
Award/s Ceremony – 8
Career Insight Day – 2
Celebration – 5
Conference – 23
Departed – 57
Dinner – 127
Forum – 11
Funeral – 2
Handed Badge and Chain of Office – 1
Launched – 10
Lecture – 9
Lunch – 52
Meeting – 117
Met People – 176
Opened – 94
Planted Tree/s – 10
Presented Badge of Office – 1
Privy Council – 12
Received – 223
Received by – 91
Reception – 289
Re-Opening – 1
Service of Evensong – 5
Service of Thanksgiving – 18
Set Sail – 1
Symposium – 2
Toured – 38
Viewed (Demonstration, Exhibition etc) – 101
Visit – 600
Welcome Ceremony – 1
Workshop – 3
Patronages that were Supported via an Official Engagements from 13th November, 2023to 19th November, 2023
Brendoncare – 1
British Horse Society – 3
British Museum – 3
Butler Trust – 7
Cathedral Music Trust – 9
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) – 3
Commonwealth Games Federation – 3
Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association – 2
Football Association – 4
Gibraltar International Literary Festival – 1
Honorary Military – 155
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness – 8
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine – 1
National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux – 6
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children – 3
Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust – 3
Rochester Cathedral Trust – 1
Royal Celtic Society – 1
Royal Commonwealth Society – 3
Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales – 63
The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation – 73
The King’s Foundation – 1
Transaid – 2
Women of the Future Programme – 1
Organisations that were Supported via an Official Engagement from 13th November, 2023to 19th November, 2023
Abbey Gateway and Ruins, Reading – 1
Armed Forces – Gibraltar – 1
Award in Action – 1
BAE Systems Submarines’ Submarine Academy and the University of Cumbria Campus – 1
Barrow-in-Furness Citizens Advice Bureau – 1
Bassadone Automotive Group – 2
Brendoncare St Giles View Care Home – 1
British Museum – 1
British Museum Archaeological Research Collection – 1
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University – 1
Churches in Reading Drop-In Centre – 1
City of Glasgow College Riverside Campus – 1
Commonwealth Women Leader’s Forum – 1
Coronation Food Project – 2
Design Museum – 1
Emergency Services – Gibraltar – 1
Gibraltar Citizens Advice Bureau – 1
Gibraltar International Literary Festival – 1
Hideaway Youth Project – 1
Hillary Award – 2
HM Prison Drake Hall – 1
Institute of Shipbuilding – 1
Inter Faith Week – 1
Interfaith Glasgow’s Scottish Interfaith Week Forum – 1
Keeping It Real – 1
Kindness and Leadership – 1
Kiwibank – 1
Lambeth Palace Library – 1
London Transport Museum – 1
Mihi Welcome Ceremony – 1
Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse – 1
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority – 1
Nuffield Farming Scholarships Conference – 1
Ramsden Hall, Barrow-in-Furness – 1
Rochester Cathedral, Rochester – 1
Royal Berkshire Archives – 1
Royal Gibraltar Regiment Association – 1
South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance – 2
Southshore Spit Reserve (New Zealand) – 1
Spirit of Adventure Sail Trust – 1
Spirit of New Zealand – 1
Sport New Zealand – 1
Symposium on Early Childhood – 1
The Prince Philip Memorial Grove (New Zealand) – 1
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition – 1
Wellington College, Wellington (New Zealand) – 1
Overseas Engagements to 19th November, 2023
Year to Date Total – 496 (450 – up 46)
HRH The Prince of Wales – 37 (22 – up 15)
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 79 (62 – up 17) (Combined – 102)
HRH The Princess Royal – 90 (85 – up 5)
Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 34 (33 – up 1)
Countries Where Royals Have Undertaken Engagements to 19th November, 2023
Gibraltar (BOT – 7 – HRH The Princess Royal – 5, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 2;
New Zealand (COMR) – 57 – HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 13; HRH The Princess Royal – 22; Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence – 22;
Singapore (COM) – 21 – HRH The Prince of Wales – 17; HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 4;
NOTE: COM = a Commonwealth country; COMR = Commonwealth Realm; BOT = British Overseas Territory; BCD – British Crown Dependency
Royals who have Official Engagement with Politicians, including Ambassadors and High Commissioners to 19th November, 2023
HM The King – 281 (267 – up 14)
HM The Queen Consort – 77 (76 – up 1)
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh – 25 (24 – up 1)
Countries of the UK where Engagements Occurred to 19th November, 2023
England – 1840
Scotland – 201
Northern Ireland – 54
Wales – 49