Weekly Update to 19th January, 2016
The numbers game is underway again for this year. It should be noted that during this past week Charles and Camilla attended a fundraising event for the flood victims from 2016 near Ballater while the Queen visited the WI. None of these events were listed in the CC so they weren’t official engagements. We do need to keep this in mind I think – that most, if not all of the BRF, undertake non-official engagements as well as official ones.
This is a fully edited entry as there I miscounted an engagement - thanks for the pick-up on that issue Cepe.
HM The Queen – 4 (2 – up 2 – 6.5%)
HRH The Prince of Wales – 3 (4.8%)
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall – 2 (3.2%)
HRH The Duke of Cambridge – 4 (2 – up 2 – 6.5%)
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge – 3 (2 – up 1 – 4.8%)
HRH Prince Henry of Wales – 4 (1 – up 3 – 6.5%)
HRH The Duke of York – 8 (12.9%)
HRH Princess Beatrice – 0 (Unofficial – 1)
HRH The Earl of Wessex – 4 (6.5%)
HRH The Countess of Wessex – 2 (1 – up 1 – 3.2%)
HRH The Princess Royal – 22 (11 – up 11 – 35.5%)
Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence – 1 (1 – no change – 1.6%)
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 4 (1 – up 3 – 6.5%)
HRH The Duke of Kent – 1 (1.6%)
FAILURE of British Monarchy Website to UPDATE CC
The weekly failure of the British Monarchy website: – 14th January(It isn't unusual for there to be no engagements on a number of days in January. This is just one of those days but given the poor updating of the CC last year I intend on making a list of all days on which the online CC doesn't have an entry. I believe they should be putting up 'no CC today' rather than 'no records found'.
No engagements from earlier in the year: 2nd, 4th, 7th January, 2017
The League Table
HRH The Princess Royal – 22
HRH The Duke of York – 8
HM The Queen – 4
HRH The Duke of Cambridge – 4
HRH Prince Henry of Wales – 4
HRH The Earl of Wessex – 4
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 4
HRH The Prince of Wales – 3
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge – 3
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall – 2
HRH The Countess of Wessex – 2
Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence – 1
HRH The Duke of Kent – 1
Year to Date Total – 62 (21 – up 41)
Percentage of Engagements
90s (Elizabeth, Philip) – 6.5%
80s (Edward Kent, Alexandra) – 1.6%
70s (Richard, Birgitte, Michael, Marie-Christine) – 6.5%
60s (Charles, Camilla, Anne, Tim) – 45.2%
50s (Andrew, Edward, Sophie) – 22.6%
30s (William, Kate, Harry) – 17.7%
Over Retirement Age (65) (All the 60s upwards) – 59.7%
Number of Days on which a royal undertook Official Engagements to 19th January, 2017
HM The Queen – 3
HRH The Prince of Wales – 3
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall – 1
HRH The Duke of Cambridge – 3
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge – 2
HRH Prince Henry of Wales – 3
HRH The Duke of York – 3
HRH The Earl of Wessex – 3
HRH The Countess of Wessex – 2
HRH The Princess Royal – 8
Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence – 1
HRH The Duke of Gloucester – 3
HRH The Duke of Kent – 1
Types of Engagements to 19th January, 2017
NOTE: If you add up the totals from this section they will invariably be more than the weekly and yearly totals because of the way engagements are described e.g. HM ‘received and invested an individual’ on the 3rd January which is why she has ONE engagement but there are two items listed here. I do NOT count ‘where received by the Lord Lt or someone else when there is more to the engagement unless it is at the start of an official visit overseas e.g. Anne was ‘received by the Deputy Lt of Oxfordshire for her engagement but that was simply a handshake before entering the conference type thing as opposed to a formal start to a tour such as we saw last year when Charles and Camilla visited the Middle East.
Audience – 1
Awards Ceremony – 2
Briefing – 3
Concert – 2
Conference – 1
Council 1
Dinner – 2
Invested Individual – 1
Joined Judging Panel – 1
Launched – 1
London Boat Show – 2
Luncheon – 1
Meeting – 2
Opened – 10
Pitch@Palace on Tour – 1
Presented Prize – 1
Received – 18
Reception – 4
Visit – 11
Specific Charities or Organisations Supported via an Official Engagement to 19th January, 2017
It should be noted that the event/s involving a charity/organization may or may not be carried out by the patron, president etc. It should also be noted that sometimes an event is related to two or more charities or organisations and I have recorded all of them here. Both Camilla and Andrew attended such events during this past week.
Anna Freud – Kate – 1
Arthritis Research – Camilla – 1
British Expertise International – Richard – 1
British Limbless Ex-Servicemen’s Association – Richard – 1
Carers’ Trust – Anne – 1
Centrepoint – William – 1
Child Bereavement – William, Kate – 2
College of Occupational Therapists – Anne – 1
Corporation of Trinity House – Anne – 1
Farms of City Children – Anne – 1
Fishmongers Company – Anne – 1
Greenwich Hospital – Andrew – 1
Heads Together Campaign – William, Kate, Harry – 3
Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award – Andrew – 1
International Musicians Seminar – Kent – 1
Joint Foundation of W,K,H – William, Kate, Harry – 6
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine – Anne – 1
London Heritage Trust – Richard – 1
Motor Neurone Disease – Anne – 1
National Osteoporosis Society – Camilla – 1
Opportunity International UK – Anne – 1
Outward Bound Trust – Andrew – 1
Oxford Farming – Anne – 1
Pitch@Palace – Andrew – 1
RedRUK – Anne – 1
Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution – Richard – 1
Royal Colonel – Charles, Edward, Sophie – 3
Royal National Orthopedic Hospital – Andrew – 1
Royal Yachting Association – Anne, Tim – 2
Save the Children UK – Anne – 1
The Royal Hospital – Andrew – 1
University Chancellor – Camilla – 1
WWI Woods Project – Anne – 1
Overseas Engagements to 19th January, 2017
NIL to date
Royal Palaces where Events Occurred to 19th January, 2017
Buckingham Palace (other than HM) – 9
Kensington Palace – 5
St James’ Palace – 2
Sandringham House – 4
