COURT CIRCULAR

Windsor Castle

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh this afternoon gave a Luncheon for Members of the Order of Merit at Windsor Castle.

The following had the honour of being invited: the Reverend Professor Owen Chadwick and Ms Helen Chadwick, Professor Sir Andrew Huxley and Mr Stewart Huxley, Sir Michael and Lady Atiyah, the Lord and Lady Foster of Thames Bank, Sir Anthony and Lady Caro, Professor Sir Roger and Lady Penrose, Sir Tom Stoppard, the Lord and Lady May of Oxford, the Lord and Lady Rothschild, Sir David Attenborough, the Baroness Boothroyd and Mr William Differ, Professor Sir Michael Howard and Mr Mark James, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee and Ms Rosemary Leith, the Right Reverend the Lord and Lady Eames, the Lord and Lady Rees of Ludlow, the Rt Hon Jean and Mrs Chrétien, Mr Neil MacGregor and the Lord Fellowes (Secretary and Registrar of the Order of Merit).

The Duke of Edinburgh, Senior Fellow, the Bray Fellowship (College of St George), this evening attended the Annual Dinner at the Waterside Inn, Ferry Road, Bray, Berkshire.

Buckingham Palace

The Duke of York, Honorary Air Commodore, today attended the 14 Squadron Disbandment Parade at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Moray (Lieutenant Colonel Grenville Johnston).

His Royal Highness this evening attended a Dinner given by the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board at Intercontinental Hotel, Park Lane, London W1.

Buckingham Palace

The Earl of Wessex today visited Ilfracombe and was received by Sir John Cave, Bt (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Devon).

His Royal Highness this morning visited the Ilfracombe Centre, 44 High Street.

The Earl of Wessex afterwards visited Transform, High Street.

His Royal Highness later visited Ilfracombe Library, the Candar.

The Earl of Wessex this afternoon visited Ilfracombe Harbour.

His Royal Highness afterwards visited Benricks Skate Park, Larkstone Recreation Park, off Larkstone Lane.

The Earl of Wessex later visited Oxford Park.

His Royal Highness subsequently visited My Start Children’s Centre, Marlborough Road.

The Earl of Wessex later visited Slade Community Centre, Slade Road.

Buckingham Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Tenovus Scotland, this morning opened the Centre for Molecular Medicine at the University of Dundee Medical School, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Dundee (Mr John Letford, the Lord Provost).

Her Royal Highness later visited College of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee.

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Unicorn Preservation Society, this afternoon attended the Affiliation Launch with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, South Victoria Dock Road, Dundee.

Her Royal Highness, Patron, the Royal Forth Yacht Club, later named the Royal Forth Yacht Club’s Dredger at Middle Pier, Granton Harbour, Edinburgh, and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh (Councillor George Grubb, the Rt Hon the Lord Provost).

The Princess Royal, Royal Patron, Motor Neurone Disease Association, subsequently visited the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research at the University of Edinburgh, Chancellor’s Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh.

Kensington Palace

The Duchess of Gloucester, Patron, Music in Hospitals, this afternoon attended a Concert given by students of the Royal Academy of Music at St Mary’s Hospital, South Wharf Road, Paddington, London W2.

St James’s Palace

The Duke of Kent, President, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, this evening attended a Lecture entitled, “Zero degrees of empathy: a new theory of human cruelty”, at 21 Albemarle Street, London W1.

Thatched House Lodge, Richmond Park

Princess Alexandra, Patron, Fairbridge, this afternoon received Mr Andrew Purvis (Chief Executive) at Buckingham Palace.

Her Royal Highness, Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, The Queen’s Royal Lancers, received Lieutenant Colonel Martin Todd upon relinquishing his appointment as Commanding Officer and Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Best upon assuming the appointment.

Major General Andrew Cumming (Colonel of the Regiment) was present.