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LONDON — Kate, the Princess of Wales, held her first official engagement Tuesday since announcing last week that she had completed her cancer treatment. Kate, wife of Prince William, the heir to the British throne, attended a private meeting at Windsor Castle, according to the Royal Circular, a daily briefing of royal activities published in the Times of London newspaper. The Royal Foundation is the main philanthropic vehicle for William and Kate, supporting community groups that work on early years education, homelessness and conservation projects. The princess has appeared in public since she revealed she was undergoing cancer treatment in March, including at the men’s final at Wimbledon in July. It emerged in February that Charles himself was receiving cancer treatment.

Persons: Princess, Prince William, Royal Foundation of The Prince, Princess of, Kate, Charlotte, Pippa Middleton Matthews, King Charles III, Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry, Meghan, Prince Andrew Organizations: Windsor, Times, London, Royal Foundation of The, Royal Foundation, Wimbledon Locations: Wales, Princess of Wales, California

☆ King Pushed for Transparency on Diagnosis. He Raised Questions in the Process.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that King Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer and would halt his public engagements to undergo treatment, it predictably set off a storm of questions. What kind of cancer? What form of treatment? And the essential, if often unspoken, question when a patient faces a potentially existential health threat: Would he survive? The palace, paradoxically, fueled this frenzy by disclosing more about the king’s medical condition than it had for Queen Elizabeth II or any other previous British monarch.

Persons: Buckingham, King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles himself Locations: British

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month for a state visit full of symbolism: His mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned she had become queen while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation in 1952. During the Oct. 31-Nov. 3 visit, Charles plans to meet with Kenyan President William Samoei Ruto and to visit Nairobi National Park, where he will have a chance to demonstrate his concern for environmental preservation and fighting climate change. In 1947, the future queen pledged lifelong service to Britain and the Commonwealth on her 21st birthday. Charles himself visited Kenya in 1971, and he attended the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Rwanda in 2022. Charles became the symbolic head of the organization after the queen died last year, but the honor is not hereditary.

Persons: — King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles ’, Charles, William Samoei Ruto Organizations: Kenyan, Commonwealth Locations: Kenya, East, Commonwealth, Nairobi, Africa, Britain, Rwanda, United Kingdom

☆ Inside Westminster Abbey during King Charles' coronation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Rachel Armstrong | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WESTMINISTER ABBEY, London, May 6 (Reuters) - The explosive crescendo of "Zadok the Priest", Handel's soaring anthem composed nearly 300 years ago for the crowning of King George III, marked the most sacred moment of Charles' coronation on Saturday. Until the crowning in 1953 of Charles's mother, Queen Elizabeth II, the coronations of kings and queens were seen only by those in the abbey. Yet elements of the ceremony, which was a largely solemn and ritualistic service with just dashes of modernity, remained distinctly intimate for those inside the abbey. Charles himself looked occasionally meek, as when he knelt before the altar with four members of the clergy surrounding him. STATE AND CHURCHBefore Charles's arrival, representatives of nine non-Christian faith groups processed through the abbey, in keeping with the king's commitment to safeguarding religious freedom.

☆ King Charles' scaled-back coronation set to cost the UK up to $125 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Estimates put the cost of King Charles coronation at between £50 million and £100 million ($63-125 million). Future Publishing | Getty ImagesLONDON — The eyes of the world will be on the U.K. this weekend as King Charles III is crowned at Westminster Abbey in a quintessentially British display of pomp and pageantry. However, King Charles himself is said to have sought a more scaled-back celebration, with a "shorter," "smaller, less expensive and more representative" ceremony — part of his wider plans for a slimmed down monarchy. That's potentially more than the approximately £50 million in today's money — then £1.5 million — spent when the queen took the throne in 1953. It's also well above the equivalent £24.8 million — then £450,000 — spent on George VI's coronation in 1937.Who pays for the event?

[1/5] Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort attends a Garden Party, in celebration of King Charles' coronation, at Buckingham Palace, London, Britain. When Charles' divorced first wife, the popular, glamorous Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Camilla bore the brunt of media hostility. That's the strength of love," Camilla told Charles in the secretly recorded telephone conversation publicised in 1993. From being able to appear in public together, to marriage and last year's approval from Queen Elizabeth to Camilla taking the title Queen Consort, their success is complete. Other surveys have also indicated only a minority thought she should be Queen Camilla.

☆ Charles' mugs and plates: Workers busy making pottery fit for a new king
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Ben Makori | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

STOKE-ON-TRENT, England, March 16 (Reuters) - British pottery makers are continuing a tradition going back centuries by producing tens of thousands of commemorative mugs, plates and teapots to mark the upcoming coronation of King Charles. Charles will be the first British monarch to be crowned for seven decades following the record-breaking reign of his mother Queen Elizabeth. Workers at the Emma Bridgewater ceramics factory in Stoke-on-Trent, a city in central England famed for its pottery, are already busy producing swathes of handmade and decorated ceramics for the occasion. It follows a tradition of producing pottery to mark notable royal occasions such as births, weddings and anniversaries which goes back hundreds of years, to the time of the current monarch's namesake and predecessor Charles II. Charles himself visited the factory back in 2010, while his daughter-in-law Kate, the Princess of Wales, toured it five years later.

☆ Prince William now owns a prison and a cricket ground after becoming one of Britain's biggest landowners
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Prince William inherited a property estate worth more than $1 billion, per The Guardian. He automatically inherited the Duchy of Cornwall estate after his father became King Charles. Charles himself inherited the estate at the age of 21 and it generated revenues of $24 million last year. It includes The Oval cricket ground in south London, Dartmoor prison, and the mineral rights of a tin mine in Cornwall. The Oval cricket ground in south London is part of the Duchy of Cornwall.

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