COURT CIRCULAR

Windsor Castle

The Queen, Colonel-in-Chief, accompanied by The Duke of York, Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, this morning presented a new Guidon to The Royal Lancers at Windsor Castle to mark the Seventieth Anniversary of Her Majesty’s Colonelcy-in-Chief.

Clarence House

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall this morning attended a Reception at the British Embassy in Rome, Italy.

Their Royal Highnesses were afterwards received by The President of the Italian Republic at Quirinale Palace.

The Prince of Wales later called upon Mr Paolo Gentiloni (Prime Minister of Italy) at Palazzo Chigi.

His Royal Highness this afternoon attended a Plenary Discussion on the East Africa Famine at the Headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall this afternoon departed from Rome for Austria and were received later upon arrival at Vienna International Airport by Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (His Excellency Mr Leigh Turner) and Mrs Mua Duzdar (State Secretary, Federal Chancellery).

Their Royal Highnesses later visited Café Demel, Vienna.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall were received subsequently by The Federal President of the Republic of Austria and Mrs Doris Schmidauer at Hofburg Palace.

The Prince of Wales later called upon Chancellor Christian Kern (Chancellor of the Republic of Austria) at Hofburg Palace.

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall this evening attended a Dinner at Hofburg Palace given by The Federal President of the Republic of Austria and Mrs Doris Schmidauer.

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Cambridge, Patron, Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund, and The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales today attended a National Service of Hope in Westminster Abbey, London SW1, following the recent London terror attack.

Buckingham Palace

The Princess Royal this morning attended a mini Durbar and later called upon Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the King Ashanti at Manhyia Palace, Kumasi, Ghana.

Her Royal Highness, Patron, Opportunity International United Kingdom, today visited God’s Heritage Academy, Anenema Kokoben, Kumasi.

The Princess Royal, Patron, Voluntary Service Overseas, this afternoon visited Wesley College of Education, Kumasi.

Her Royal Highness later departed from Ghana for Sierra Leone and was received this afternoon at Lungi International Airport by the British High Commissioner to the Republic of Sierra Leone (His Excellency Mr Guy Warrington).

The Princess Royal this evening attended a Reception given by the British High Commissioner to the Republic of Ghana at the Residence in Freetown.

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester, President, British Expertise, this evening presented the British Expertise International Awards at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, 45 Prescot Street, London E1.

The Duchess of Gloucester, Patron, the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, this morning attended a Lecture, followed by a Lunch, to mark the Fortieth Anniversary of the Henley Decorative and Fine Arts Society at Phyllis Court Members Club, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.