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Prince Harry To Visit London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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Prince Harry To Visit London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Prince Harry speaks during a concert hosted by his charity Sentebale in Kensington Palace Gardens, London, to raise awareness and funds for adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

PRINCE HARRY WILL VISIT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF
HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE

London

Monday 10th July, 2017

Prince Harry will visit the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on Monday 10th July. His Royal Highness will hear more about the School’s global efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, and will attend an HIV-focused roundtable discussion led by the charity Sentebale, of which Prince Harry is Patron.

On arrival, His Royal Highness will visit a number of LSHTM departments to see the vital work being undertaken to combat some of the world’s most pressing health issues. Prince Harry will firstly hear about Peek, an organisation which aims to increase access to eye care, and its school screening programmes in countries such as Botswana. His Royal Highness will be shown the latest advances, including the Peek app which teachers are being trained to use to test children’s eyesight.

His Royal Highness will then be given an overview of the School’s response to the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, followed by a presentation of its work on HIV. Prince Harry will hear about School research on interventions to improve HIV prevention and treatment services for young people in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the impacts of domestic violence on women and girls’ risk of HIV. The Prince will see a demonstration of a HIV self-testing kit, currently being used in a trial in Malawi where women attending antenatal clinics are given the kits to pass on to their male partners. His Royal Highness will also hear about an ongoing trial in Zambia and South Africa, exploring how a new approach to test and treat whole communities for HIV may affect HIV-related stigma.

Prince Harry will then attend Sentebale’s ‘Let Youth Lead’ roundtable discussion, chaired by Professor Baron Peter Piot, KCMG, the Director of the School and former founding Executive Director of UNAIDS. His Royal Highness will hear from three of Sentebale’s Youth Advocates from Lesotho and Botswana about their experiences of children and adolescents affected by HIV, and the challenges they are facing across the southern Africa region. In attendance will be global HIV leaders who will be invited to respond to the recommendations outlined by the advocates.

Sentebale’s ‘Let Youth Lead’ programme was launched in April in Lesotho at the charity’s first youth summit, and aims to provide a platform for young people to advocate to their peers to test for HIV and safely manage their status.

Prince Harry To Visit Leeds

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Prince Harry To Visit Leeds
Prince Harry at the University of Bath in England, April 2017.

Prince Harry To Visit Leeds

Thursday 6th July – Friday 7th July, 2017

Prince Harry will visit the city of Leeds, Yorkshire between Thursday 6th and Friday 7th July. Over the two days His Royal Highness will meet local organisations, companies and charities which work in various ways to support the surrounding Leeds community.

Prince Harry will begin his visit to Leeds at the Leeds Leads: Encouraging Happy Young Minds event, a charity fair and panel discussion addressing the mental wellbeing of the city’s young people. Hosted by the Leeds Community Foundation (LCF), the event will bring together a range of mental health projects which have been funded through LCF’s latest initiative – the Leeds Fund – to celebrate the important work they are delivering across the city. Prince Harry will visit the charities’ stalls to learn more about their work with young people and mental health, before introducing the panel discussion on stage to the audience of local business and community leaders.

His Royal Highness will then travel to Headingley Carnegie Stadium to attend the Sky Try Rugby League Festival, which is part of a seven-year programme designed to get more than 700,000 children from primary and secondary schools across the country playing rugby league. The festival will see eight and nine year olds from seven local primary schools in Leeds take part in seven-a-side touch rugby league games, coached by current England players and local coaches from the Leeds Rhinos Foundation. Prince Harry will hear more about the Sky Try programme’s delivery, before meeting children, coaches and players on the pitch. This will be His Royal Highness’s first engagement as the new Patron of the Rugby Football League.

On Friday 7th July, Prince Harry will undertake two visits in support of WellChild, a charity that works with children suffering from serious illnesses or life-altering conditions, and of which His Royal Highness is Patron. Prince Harry will firstly visit the family home of a five year old boy in Leeds, who will receive a garden makeover from WellChild’s Helping Hands programme. This will be the charity’s 300th project, and will see a group of volunteers transform the little boy’s garden into an outside space that he can finally access safely and enjoy with his siblings, allowing him to develop his physical skills and encourage independence. Prince Harry will visit the project as it begins to take shape, meeting the young boy, his family and the Helping Hands volunteers.

His Royal Highness will then travel to Leeds Children’s Hospital, where he will meet WellChild Nurse Helen Tooby. WellChild nurses such as Helen provide the specialist care and support required to help families get their children home from hospital quicker. Helen will be the main point of contact for all children with a tracheostomy and their families, helping them to learn to care for their child and gain the confidence they need to support them at home. Prince Harry will also meet a group of the children and families who have been helped by Helen on their journey from hospital to home.

His Royal Highness will conclude his visit to Leeds with a visit to HARIBO’s new facility in Castleford. Prince Harry will see how the brand’s much-loved sweets are made, and will meet members of the family-owned business, its newest recruits and individuals that have been helping to create HARIBO treats for over 27 years. The factory has become a leading employer locally, with more than 730 team members across its two manufacturing sites.

Duchess to Attend Wimbledon

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Duchess to Attend Wimbledon
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge applaud the victory of Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen in the mixed doubles on day thirteen of the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, 2016.

THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE WILL ATTEND THE
CHAMPIONSHIPS, WIMBLEDON

London

Monday 3rd July, 2017

The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), will attend The Championships, Wimbledon on Monday 3rd July.

Prior to the start of play, Her Royal Highness will meet some of The Championships’ ball boys and ball girls, and hear more about their experiences of the tournament. The Duchess will then meet a number of staff who play a pivotal role each year in the delivery of The Championships, including the tournament’s stewards and its medical and safety teams.

This will be The Duchess’s first visit to The Championships as Patron of the AELTC.

Royal Life Issue 24
Royal Life Issue 24

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Queen’s Young Leaders Awards Ceremony

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Queen's Young Leaders Awards Ceremony
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry attend the annual Chelsea Flower May, 2015 in London

Her Majesty will host the 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards Ceremony

Thursday 29th June 2017

Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, accompanied by Prince Harry, will host a ceremony and reception at Buckingham Palace to present Awards to The Queen’s Young Leaders for 2017.

Among the guests will be the Chairman of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, Sir John Major, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Sir Mo Farah and Caspar Lee.

The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme celebrates the achievements of inspiring young people from across the Commonwealth who are dedicated to driving change in their communities. The Queen was 26 years old when she became Head of the Commonwealth in 1952. This five year programme was launched in 2014 in honour of Her Majesty’s lifetime of service to the Commonwealth – a global network of 52 countries and 2.2 billion people, of whom 60 % are under 30 years old.

This year’s winners, aged between 18 and 29, are working in support of a range of issues from tackling bullying in schools, to preserving the environment, to promoting gender equality. In the week leading up to the Awards Ceremony, the winners will travel to the UK from across 36 Commonwealth countries to participate in a programme of training, mentoring and networking opportunities. This includes workshops at the University of Cambridge and visits to No 10, the UK headquarters of Facebook and the BBC World Service.

The BBC’s The One Show will broadcast live from Buckingham Palace during the reception that evening. The Awards ceremony will be broadcast on Facebook Live, bringing the winners’ families from around the Commonwealth inside Buckingham Palace.

Following the reception, Prince Harry will attend the Awards Dinner at Australia House where the search for the final cohort of Queen’s Young Leaders will be launched.

The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme and the Awards

The Queen’s Young Leaders Award is part of The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme, an initiative established by The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust in partnership with Comic Relief, the Royal Commonwealth Society and the University of Cambridge, in recognition of Her Majesty’s lifetime of service to the Commonwealth.

Launched in 2014 by The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, the first round of Queen’s Young Leaders visited the United Kingdom in 2015. Each year from 2014 to 2018, 60 exceptional young people will be selected to receive a Queen’s Young Leaders Award and become ‘Queen’s Young Leaders’ – one for every year that The Queen had served as Head of the Commonwealth at the time of her Diamond Jubilee.

The Programme aims to discover, celebrate and support young people from every Commonwealth nation. It will do this both through an award scheme and giving grants to support organisations in select countries in the Commonwealth that are working with young people to transform their lives. These young people are chosen for having transformed their own lives and the lives of those around them, despite challenges they may have faced along the way. The goal of the Programme is to enable young people to take up leadership roles and improve the lives of people across the Commonwealth.

More information about The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme and the Awards is available via the following link: http://www.queensyoungleaders.com/

Duke of Edinburgh Admitted to Hospital

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Duke of Edinburgh Admitted to Hospital

Thursday 22nd June

The Duke of Edinburgh has left hospital after being admitted as “a precautionary measure”.

Duchess to Open New V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

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Duchess to Open New V&A Exhibition Road Quarter
The Duchess of Cambridge arriving at MUDAM (Musze d'Art Moderne) during a day of visits in Luxembourg, 2017

The Duchess of Cambridge Will Open The New V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

London

Thursday 29th June, 2017

The Duchess of Cambridge will visit the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) on Thursday 29th June to officially open the Museum’s new entrance, courtyard and exhibition gallery on Exhibition Road.

The V&A Exhibition Road Quarter is the V&A’s largest architectural project in the last 100 years, designed by British architect Amanda Levete and her practice AL_A. The project has created new public areas and gallery space for London, transforming the experience of the V&A for visitors, and revealing the historic facades of the Museum’s existing Grade I buildings for the first time. A new public entrance to the V&A has been created on Exhibition Road, reconnecting the V&A with its neighbouring museums and institutions founded on the vision of Albertopolis, following the Great Exhibition of 1851. The new entrance leads visitors through the historic Aston Webb Screen into the world’s first porcelain tiled courtyard, which floats above a new column-free gallery that will host the V&A’s world-class exhibition programme.

The Duchess will tour the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter’s new spaces, and hear about the design and unique features of the building. During the tour Her Royal Highness will visit The Sackler Courtyard – the world’s first porcelain tiled public courtyard – The Blavatnik Hall, the V&A’s new entrance and The Sainsbury Gallery. The Sainsbury Gallery will host temporary site-specific installations for the opening, including immersive sound and light works by artist Simon Heijdens and viol player Liam Byrne, as well as industrial designer Jonathan Olivares’ Aluminium Bench, a twelve-metre long bench which curves throughout the space.

The Duchess will then attend a short reception in The Blavatnik Hall to meet guests involved in the project’s delivery, before unveiling a commemorative plaque in The Sackler Courtyard to officially mark the opening of the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter.

The Duchess’s visit precedes REVEAL, a free, week-long public festival running from 30th June celebrating the opening of the new entrance. To celebrate these new spaces, the V&A will be inviting the public to explore the V&A Exhibition Road Quarter’s unique combination of heritage, modernity and technology with a series of events that bring the architecture and collections to life.

For more information visit: www.vam.ac.uk

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Message From Queen Following Grenfell Tower Fire

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The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh to visit Tower Hamlets

My thoughts and prayers are with those families who have lost loved ones in the Grenfell Tower fire and the many people who are still critically ill in hospital.  Prince Philip and I would like to pay tribute to the bravery of firefighters and other emergency services officers who put their own lives at risk to save others.  It is also heartening to see the incredible generosity of community volunteers rallying to help those affected by this terrible event.

ELIZABETH R

175th Anniversary of First Train Journey by a British Monarch

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Queen to Reopen Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will mark the 175th anniversary of the first train journey by a British monarch

Tuesday 13th June 2017

Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, will mark the 175th anniversary of the first train journey by a British monarch. The Queen and The Duke will travel from Slough to London Paddington on a Great Western Railway train, recreating the historic journey made by Queen Victoria on 13th June 1842.

Prior to travelling, Her Majesty and His Royal Highness will pass through the original waiting room at Slough Railway Station, which was also used by Queen Victoria. They will view a historical timeline of the Great Western Railway and a related art project by local schoolchildren.

The Royal party will then board GWR’s new Intercity Express train, which is due to enter passenger service later this year. Accompanying The Queen and The Duke on the journey will be descendants of Daniel Gooch, who drove the original locomotive (Phlegethon), and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the celebrated engineer who designed the Great Western Railway line and assisted Daniel Gooch during the 1842 journey.

The new train’s two leading vehicles are to be called Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria. On arrival at London Paddington, Her Majesty will take part in a short unveiling ceremony.

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Duke of Cambridge Takes Part In Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy

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The Duke of Cambridge will take part in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy at Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire on Sunday 11th June.
The Duke of Cambridge takes part in the Jerudong Trophy Polo Match at Cirencester Park Polo Club, June 2016.

The Duke of Cambridge to take part in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy

Beaufort Polo Club

Sunday 11th June, 2017

The Duke of Cambridge will take part in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy at Beaufort Polo Club in Gloucestershire on Sunday 11th June.

The charity match will help raise funds and awareness for two charities that The Duke supports as Patron: Child Bereavement UK and Fields in Trust.

The match, which will see the Maserati team take on the Dhamani 1969 side, is part of the Gloucestershire Festival of Polo, hosted by Beaufort Polo Club from 10th – 11th June. This match is part of a series of charitable polo matches that The Duke and Prince Harry will play in this summer.

Their Royal Highnesses have taken part in polo fixtures in support of their charities since 2007, and have continued each year since, raising over £10 million for charitable causes to date.

Throughout the summer, The Duke and Prince Harry are raising funds for the following charities: Centrepoint, Child Bereavement UK, English Schools Swimming Association, Fields in Trust, Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund, The Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund, Irish Guards Appeal, Map Action, Mountain Rescue England and Wales, The Royal Marsden, RFU Injured Players Foundation, Sentebale, Skillforce, Tusk, Walking With the Wounded, WellChild and the Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust.

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Prince Harry To Visit Chatham House

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Prince Harry Visits Northern Ireland

Prince Harry Will Visit Chatham House,
The Royal Institute of International Affairs
London

Thursday 15th June, 2017

Prince Harry will visit Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, to open their new extension, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Floor. The new space will provide a permanent home for the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, new meeting and work spaces, a media studio, and a simulation centre.

His Royal Highness will tour the new space, meet young people who are currently Fellows of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, and participate in a simulation exercise.

Founded in 1920, Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. It carries out independent and rigorous analysis of critical global, regional and country-specific challenges and opportunities.

Chatham House has created the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs to develop a new generation of leaders capable of crafting innovative responses to the most pressing challenges facing their countries and regions.

The opening of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Floor marks a significant moment in the modern history of the institute and is a core component of the Chatham House Second Century Initiative, which aims to strengthen the institute’s capacity to innovate and meet the growing demand for its work in the lead-up to its centenary in 2020.

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