COURT CIRCULAR

Clarence House

Mr David Geddes was received by The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay when His Royal Highness, on behalf of The Queen, invested him with the Insignia of a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, Colonel-in-Chief, The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Own), this afternoon received representatives to mark the Regiment’s Centenary.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Corps of Signals, and Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Australian Corps of Transport, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this morning visited Corps Squadrons at Holsworthy Barracks, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

Her Royal Highness, on behalf of The Queen in celebration of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, accompanied by Admiral Laurence, this afternoon departed from Australia for Papua New Guinea and was received later upon arrival at Port Moresby International Airport by the Hon James Marape (Prime Minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea).

The Princess Royal this evening called upon the Governor-General of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and Lady Dadae at Government House, Champion Parade, Port Moresby.

Her Royal Highness later received the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and Mrs Marape at Airways Hotel, Jacksons Parade, Port Moresby.

The Princess Royal afterwards attended a Reception held by the Prime Minister of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea at Airways Hotel.

St James’s Palace

The Duke of Kent this afternoon opened Feritech Innovation Centre, Menerdue Lane, Redruth, and was received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall (Colonel Edward Bolitho).

His Royal Highness, President, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, later visited Penlee Lifeboat Station, Newlyn, and laid a wreath at sea to mark the Fortieth Anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster.

The Duke of Kent, Patron, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, this evening attended a Concert at St John’s Hall, Penzance.