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The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall Attend Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust

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 THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL VISIT THE QUEEN’S GALLERY 

Monday 24th January 2022

The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will attend an exhibition of Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust, which were commissioned by The Prince of Wales to pay tribute to Holocaust survivors, at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. 

During the visit to The Queen’s Gallery, Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will view the paintings in the special display Seven Portraits: Surviving The Holocaust and then meet with the sitters and artists involved in the project. 

The special display Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace has been commissioned by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to pay tribute to the stories of seven remarkable Holocaust survivors, each of whom has in recent years been honoured for services to Holocaust awareness and education. The Prince of Wales, Patron of the National Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, commissioned seven leading artists to paint the portraits as a living memorial to the six million innocent men, women and children who lost their lives in the Holocaust and whose stories will never be told. The profoundly moving portraits, which will become part of the Royal Collection, stand as a powerful testament to the extraordinary resilience and courage of those who survived. Admission to the display is included with a ticket to the current exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery, Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, between 27th January and 13th February 2022. The portraits will then go on display for visitors to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh between 17th March and 6th June 2022. 

Royal Collection Trust: 

Royal Collection Trust, a department of The Royal Household, is responsible for the care of the Royal Collection and manages the public opening of the official residences of The Queen. The aims of The Trust are the care and conservation of The Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational programmes. Royal Collection Trust’s work is undertaken without public funding of any kind. 

The Royal Collection is among the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact. It comprises almost all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, and is spread among some 15 royal residences and former residences across the UK, most of which are regularly open to the public. The Royal Collection is held in trust by the Sovereign for her successors and the Nation, and is not owned by The Queen as a private individual. 

Biographies of the Holocaust Survivors: 

Arek Hersh MBE 

Arek was 11 years old when the war started and was born in Sieradz, central Poland. In this town, the Jewish population numbered around 5,000. The Jews in Sieradz were ordered to leave on 31st August 1939, just before the Nazi invasion of Poland. Arek’s family went to Lodz to stay with cousins. Whilst there, Arek was taken by German soldiers and put on a train to Otoschno to work as a slave labourer on a new train line to Russia. He stayed there for 18 months and was then sent back to Sieradz. In August 1942, during a raid by the Nazis, Arek told SS officers he was a tailor, and so, deemed useful, he was sent to the Lodz ghetto with 150 others. All other Jews in the town were sent to Chelmno concentration camp and murdered on arrival. Arek was ‘adopted’ by a woman and her daughter in the Lodz ghetto, with whom he stayed for several months. Then he was accepted to stay in an orphanage and worked in a textile mill. 

On 25th August 1944 (after 23 months in the Lodz ghetto), Arek was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was taken to the Cygainer Lager (so called gypsy camp) which had been liquidated and emptied just before his arrival. Arek was selected to work and was taken to Block 4 in Auschwitz 1 – the first camp in the vast complex. 

After three weeks in Auschwitz 1, Arek was sent to Budy where he was put to work ploughing fields, and then he was made to work in the fisheries. After 12 days at the fisheries, he was then sent to Plawy, a sub-camp. 

Nine days before Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated, in January 1945, Arek was sent on the Death March to Germany. Once they reached Katowice, Arek and the other prisoners were put into goods wagons and travelled to Buchenwald, where they were put into the Russian Prisoner of War block. 

In April 1945, Arek was sent on a Death March from Buchenwald, and put onto a wagon at Weimar. After three and a half weeks, he arrived at Roundnice, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. From there he was moved to the Terezin Ghetto where he was finally liberated four days later. Arek’s older sister, Mania, was the only other family member who survived. He was reunited with her in Ulm, Germany, in 1947. Arek now lives in England with his family. 

Helen Aronson BEM 

Helen was born in Pabjanice, near Lodz, Poland on 24th April 1927. In May 1942 all the Jews from Pabjanice were evacuated to the notorious Lodz ghetto. Helen is one of only 750 Jews who miraculously survived the ghetto, from a total of 250,000 who entered it. Soon after entering Lodz, Helena’s father was murdered at Chelmno concentration camp, together with all of Pabjanice’s children, whom he had volunteered to accompany. Helen managed to survive the ghetto alongside her mother and brother, as slave workers. After being liberated from Lodz by the Red Army, her mother joined her older sister in Israel and her brother went to Australia. In 1946, Helen began her new life in London where she joined her uncle and learnt English. She married, worked as a secretary and had two daughters. In 1954, Helen, her husband George and their two daughters – Monica and Annie – moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where George had been posted with the colonial service. 

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE 

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was born in Breslau which was then part of Germany and is now Wrocław in Poland. She was part of an assimilated Jewish family and lived with her parents and two sisters. All three children played an instrument from a young age. Anita played the cello. By the time Anita was 12 years old her parents arranged for her to go to Berlin where she had private tuition in school subjects and could continue her cello lessons with the only remaining Jewish cello teacher in the city. However, this ended soon after Kristallnacht, at which point Anita left Berlin to return to her family in Breslau. 

Following Kristallnacht, Anita was forced to leave school and was conscripted to work in a paper factory. Around this time, Anita’s family were also forced to leave their home and move in with Anita’s aunt. On 9th April 1942, Anita’s parents were deported to Izbica near Lublin. Anita and her sisters had wanted to go with them, but their father refused. Anita learnt after the war that they had been killed on arrival. Anita continued to work in the paper factory and became involved in clandestine activities, mainly forging paperwork for French prisoners of war. One day she realised that the Nazis had been watching her. Anita forged some papers for herself and attempted to escape but she was quickly caught and imprisoned for forgery, helping the enemy, and attempted escape. After a year in prison, Anita was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She credits her survival at Auschwitz to the fact that she was able to join the camp orchestra. The prisoners who were part of the orchestra played by the gates of the camp as the other prisoners left for work in the morning and arrived back in the evening. The orchestra was also expected to be on call to play whenever a member of the SS wanted to hear music. From Auschwitz, Anita was sent to Bergen-Belsen. On 15th April 1945, Belsen was liberated by British troops. After serving as an interpreter for the British army, she settled in the UK in 1946 where she achieved fame as co-founder and member of the English Chamber Orchestra. 

Rachel Levy BEM 

Rachel was born in 1935 and was raised in rural Czechoslovakia in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains. She lived with her father, mother, older brother Chaskel, two younger sisters and one baby brother. 

In March 1939, the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia. Three years later in 1942, Rachel’s father was taken from his home. A few months later, Rachel and her family were able to hide in the surrounding mountains and forests, thus avoiding later round ups. However, in Spring 1944, her neighbours handed the family over to the Nazi soldiers. Rachel and her family were put on cattle trucks and transported to Auschwitz. Rachel’s mother, Shlima, her sisters Rivka and Eta and her infant brother Ben-Zvi were all gassed upon arrival. Rachel was separated from her brother Chaskel and uncle and sent to the female section of the camp. 

As the allied forces approached Auschwitz those remaining in the camp were sent on the infamous Death March. After 21 days of walking Rachel made it to Bergen-Belsen. On 15th April 1945 British troops liberated the 60,000 inmates from Bergen-Belsen. After the war, Rachel and her brother agreed to travel to the UK as refugees and rehabilitate there. 

Lily Ebert BEM 

Lily was born in Bonyhád, Hungary, in 1923. She was the eldest daughter in a family of six children. In July 1944, when Lily was 14 years old, she, along with her mother, younger brother and three sisters, was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Lily’s mother Nina, younger brother Bela, and younger sister Berta were immediately sent to the gas chambers whilst Lily and her sisters Renee and Piri were selected for work in the camp. She was ordered to shower and then all her clothes and possessions were taken. Lily was only allowed to keep her shoes. In her shoe heel, Lily had hidden a golden pendant, given to her by her mother. It was the only trace of her mother she had left. When her shoes wore out, Lily hid the pendant in a piece of bread. 

Four months after arriving in the camp, Lily and her two sisters were transferred to a munitions factory at Altenburg, near Leipzig. Here, Lily was made to work as a slave labourer. Lily was liberated in spring 1945. After she was liberated, Lily travelled with her surviving sisters to Switzerland to recuperate and to start rebuilding her life. In 1953 Lily was reunited with her older brother, who had survived the Nazi camp system, and the family then moved to Israel. In 1967 Lily and her husband moved to the UK. 

Manfred Goldberg BEM 

Manfred was born on 21 April 1930 in Kassel in central Germany into an Orthodox Jewish family. He and his family suffered escalating persecution in Germany under the Nazi regime in the years before the Second World War. Manfred’s father was able to escape to Britain in August 1939, just days before the war began, but the rest of the family were unable to join him. 

The situation deteriorated following the outbreak of the war and in 1940 Manfred’s Jewish school was closed by the Nazi authorities. In December 1941, Manfred, his mother and younger brother were deported by train from Germany to the Riga Ghetto in Latvia. Life in the ghetto was characterised by lack of food, use as slave labour and constant fear: throughout Manfred’s time in the ghetto, the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators regularly selected inmates of the ghetto for mass shootings in forests on the edge of the city. Despite this, Manfred was able to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah in March 1943. 

In August 1943, just three months before the ghetto was finally liquidated, Manfred was sent to a nearby labour camp where he was forced to work laying railway tracks. 

The prisoners in the camp were treated brutally and again subjected to frequent selections. As the Red Army approached Riga, Manfred and the other surviving prisoners were evacuated to Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (today Gdańsk in Poland) in August 1944. He spent more than eight months as a slave worker in Stutthof and its subcamps, including Stolp and Burggraben. The camp was abandoned just days before the war ended and Manfred and other prisoners were sent on a Death March in appalling conditions. Manfred was finally liberated at Neustadt in Germany on 3 May 1945. Manfred came to Britain in September 1946 to be reunited with his father. After learning English, he managed to catch up on some of his missed education and he eventually graduated from London University with a degree in Electronics. He is married with four sons and several grandchildren. 

Zigi Shipper BEM 

Zigi was born on 18th January 1930, to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland and attended a Jewish school. When he was five years old his parents divorced but, because they were Orthodox Jews and divorce was frowned upon, he was told that his mother had died. Following his parents’ divorce, he lived with his father and his grandparents. In 1939, when war broke out, Zigi’s father escaped to the Soviet Union, believing that it was only young Jewish men who were at risk, and not children or the elderly. However, in 1940 Zigi and his grandparents were forced to move into the Łódź Ghetto. During this year his father attempted to return to see Zigi but could not get into the ghetto. Zigi never saw his father again and still does not know what happened to him. In 1942, all children, including Zigi, were rounded up and put on lorries to be deported from the ghetto. Zigi managed to jump off the lorry and escaped back into the ghetto where he remained, working in the metal factory, until the ghetto’s liquidation in 1944. When the ghetto was liquidated, all of the people from the metal factory were put onto cattle trucks and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 

On arrival, they were sent to the so-called Sauna building, where they were stripped, shaved and showered. Everyone from the ghetto had to go through a selection, where a Nazi officer decided who was fit enough to work and those who should be killed immediately. Within an hour of the selection, those from Zigi’s transport who were not classed as fit for work had been murdered. 

A few weeks after arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau, all of the surviving workers from the metal factory were sent to Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. Once there, Zigi volunteered to work at a railway yard, where he was able to get more food. With the Soviets advancing, Zigi and the rest of his group were sent on a Death March, arriving in the German naval town of Neustadt. Here they were told they were going to Denmark. However, before this could happen there was a British air attack, and during the chaos that followed Zigi realised that all of the Nazis had left. They were surrounded by British troops and liberated on 3rd May 1945. As soon as they were 

liberated, Zigi and his friends from Danzig and the march went looking for food. Three days after liberation, Zigi ended up in hospital for three months due to the effects of overeating after a long period of malnutrition. Once he left hospital, he and his friends were sent to a Displaced Persons’ camp. 

Zigi finally arrived in the UK in 1947, where he married and had a family. He now lives in Hertfordshire and regularly shares his testimony in schools across the country. 

The Duchess of Cornwall Carries Out Engagements in Oxford

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The Duchess of Cornwall meets members of the public, during a visit to Cara Murphy's workshop in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland. May 18, 2021.

 THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL CARRIES OUT ENGAGEMENTS IN OXFORD 

26TH JANUARY 2021

Engagement 1

The Duchess of Cornwall, accompanied by author Philip Pullman, will visit the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

Upon arrival at Weston Library, Her Royal Highness, accompanied by author Philip Pullman, will view the library’s new exhibition, ‘Melancholy: A New Anatomy’, and the Sheldon Tapestry Map of Oxfordshire, which is on display for the first time in a century. Following this, The Duchess will meet Sally Dunsmore and Tony Byrne, organisers of the Oxford Literary Festival (taking place March 25th – April 23rd). The Bodleian is one of the festival’s cultural partners. 

In the Mackerras Reading Room, Her Royal Highness will meet students and library staff. The Duchess will be shown a number of demonstrations in the library’s Conservation Studio, before looking at a selection of the library’s ‘special treasures’ in the Horton Room. 

The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room 

The Duchess of Cornwall is passionate about the importance of literacy, and is keen to promote the benefits of reading both to children and adults alike. The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room is an Instagram community for book lovers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. It was inspired by the success of Her Royal Highness’s reading lists shared during the pandemic in 2020, and offers new seasons of book recommendations, as well as exclusive insight from the authors themselves. To find out more, follow @DuchessofCornwallsReadingRoom on Instagram. 

The Bodleian Libraries, Oxford 

The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library – the Bodleian Library – which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 27 libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 13 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. For more information, visit www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. 

Engagement 2

The Duchess of Cornwall will open the Marcela Botnar Wing, the newest of the Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Science’s facilities at the University of Oxford, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site, Windmill Rd, Oxford OX3 7LD. 

Upon arrival, Her Royal Highness will be introduced to Professor Andrew Carr (Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Head of Department for NDORMS, University of Oxford) and Professor Jonathan Rees (Director of the Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Science). The Duchess will be escorted into the new research building to meet a number of major benefactors from the Marcela Trust, and members of staff from the University. 

Her Royal Highness will tour the research spaces, viewing demonstrations from University researchers along the way. Upstairs, The Duchess will be shown the Clean Room, the first of its kind in the UK, where biomedical devices are created. 

Across the newly constructed bridge, linking the existing Botnar building with its new wing, Her Royal Highness will officially open the new wing by cutting a ribbon, before joining a reception. The Duchess will later unveil a plaque, to be positioned in the new wing. 

Before departing, Her Royal Highness will plant a tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy by the entrance to Botnar Campus. 

The Duchess of Cornwall 

Her Royal Highness is Patron of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Charity. The Duchess last visited the Centre in May 2014 to open Botnar 2. 

The Duchess has been President of the Royal Osteoporosis Society since 2001, and became involved with the charity in 1997 following the deaths of her mother and grandmother as a result of the disease. In October 2020, Her Royal Highness marked World Osteoporosis Day in a video message. 

About Osteoporosis 

Osteoporosis is a fragile bone disease that causes painful, debilitating and sometimes fatal fractures (broken bones), particularly of the wrist, hip and spine. Osteoporosis is very common; 1 in 2 women and 1 in 5 men over the age of 50 are expected to break a bone during their lifetime. 

Botnar Research Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences, NDORMS 

The Botnar Institute is a world-leading research centre in musculoskeletal sciences. The Institute takes a multidisciplinary approach to research, encompassing orthopaedics, rehabilitation and rheumatology, and innovatively using epidemiology, engineering and statistics to deliver better care to everyone. 

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre 

The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is an internationally renowned orthopaedic hospital, with strong affiliations to the University of Oxford. It has been treating patients with bone and joint problems for more than 80 years and has a world-wide reputation for excellence in orthopaedics, rheumatology and rehabilitation. The hospital also undertakes specialist services such as the treatment of bone infection and bone tumours, limb reconstruction and the rehabilitation of those with limb amputation or complex neurological disabilities. 

The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Charity 

Over the last 20 years, The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre Charity has raised all the funds for the Botnar Institute for Musculoskeletal Sciences, which has been built in three phases at a cost of £20 million. In the hospital (the NOC), the NOC Charity has also raised funds for a children’s ward and outpatients, two adult wards, a hydrotherapy pool, and much more. Her Royal Highness opened the new hospital on a visit in 2007. 

The Duchess of Cornwall Attends Reception for The Anne Frank Trust

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The Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to view the 'Artemisia' and 'Titian: Love Desire Death' exhibitions at the National Gallery in London, on its first day of reopening following the second national coronavirus lockdown.

 THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL WILL MARK HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY AND THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF ANNE FRANK’S DIARY 

Thursday 20th January 2022 

The Duchess of Cornwall will attend a reception for the Anne Frank Trust at the InterContinental London Park Lane, One Hamilton Place, Hamilton Place, London W1J 7QY. 

Upon arrival, The Duchess will be received by the Lord-Lieutenant, Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE, and by Tim Robertson, Chief Executive of the Anne Frank Trust, who will escort Her Royal Highness to a reception. 

Here, Her Royal Highness will be introduced to Eva Schloss MBE, step-sister of Anne Frank and Honorary President of the Anne Frank Trust UK as well as other Holocaust survivors and guest speaker, Dame Joanna Lumley. 

The Duchess will be seated between Eva Schloss and Dame Joanna to watch a brief presentation by 15 young people from three schools: Brinsworth Academy, Rotherham; Grove Academy, Dundee and Oaks Park High School, Redbridge, London. 

Her Royal Highness will then join guests in the Ballroom where she will take part in a candle-lighting ceremony alongside Eva Schloss; Annabel Schild, daughter of Kindertransportee Rolf Schild; Azeem Rafiq, former England under-19 Cricket Captain; Katie Amess, daughter of the late Sir David Amess MP and Michelle Parker, survivor of a mass shooting in Plymouth. 

The Duchess will be presented with an inscribed copy of Anne Frank’s Diary before giving a short speech. 

The Anne Frank Trust UK, is hosting its annual lunch to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 75th anniversary of the publication of Anne Frank’s diary. 

The event includes an original creative performance by the charity’s Anne Frank Young Ambassadors working with Blind Summit Theatre and a candle-lighting ceremony in memory of the Holocaust and other genocides, as well as victims of modern day hate crime. 

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day theme is ‘One day’ which reflects the charity’s hopes for a world without prejudice or genocide. Holocaust Memorial Day officially takes place on Thursday 27th January 2022. 

The Anne Frank Trust is an education charity that empowers young people aged 10 to 15 to challenge all forms of prejudice, inspired by the life and work of Anne Frank. Through workshops in schools, online learning and a young ambassadors programme, the Trust reached 41,000 young people across the UK in 2021. Independent research shows that 92.5% of these young people develop more positive attitudes to groups of people different from themselves. The social disruption caused by Covid makes this work more vital than ever. Founded in 1991 by friends of Anne Frank’s father, the Trust is the official UK partner of the Anne Frank House Amsterdam. 

The Duchess of Cornwall Hosts Reception to Mark 50 Years of Refuge

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 THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL HOSTS A RECEPTION TO MARK 50 YEARS OF REFUGE 

Tuesday 25th January 2022

The Duchess of Cornwall will host a reception at Clarence House to mark 50 years of Refuge and the movement to end domestic abuse.

At the reception, The Duchess of Cornwall will meet Refuge Ambassadors, Trustees and Survivors of domestic abuse, and learn how abuse has changed over Refuge’s 50-year history. 

The reception will conclude with addresses from Refuge’s Chair, Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, Erica Osakwe, survivor of domestic abuse who has campaigned alongside Refuge to change the law, and The Duchess. 

The Duchess will undertake a private visit to an emergency accommodation Refuge Centre earlier in the day, where she will meet residents as well as expert staff. This visit will provide Her Royal Highness with insight into emergency accommodation for women fleeing domestic abuse. 

Refuge 

Refuge supports thousands of women and children on any given day, and runs the National Domestic Abuse Helpline, which is the gateway to accessing specialist support across the country. More than one in four women in England and Wales experiences domestic abuse at some point in their lifetime, and two women a week are killed by a current or former partner. 

On their 50th anniversary, 24th November 2021, Refuge launched their new advertising campaign bringing into focus the rise of tech abuse. They released the following figures: 

  • Refuge has seen a 97% increase in number of referrals for complex tech abuse cases compared to the first three months of 2020 
  • In the last 50 years, Refuge’s job has gotten harder as the progression of technology has made abuse smarter and easier 
  • Refuge has created a compelling multi-platform campaign to raise awareness of insidious, growing tools of tech abuse 

Learn more about Refuge’s campaign here 

Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247 is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week for free, confidential specialist support. 

www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk 

refugetechsafety.org 

The Duchess and Domestic Abuse 

Her Royal Highness has long been an advocate for raising awareness of and preventing domestic abuse. Some examples of her work include: 

  • July 2016, The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception for survivors of domestic abuse, those working in the field, and charities aiming to raise awareness of the issue at Clarence House. 
  • In March 2020, The Duchess attended the Grand Opening Session: Domestic Abuse – Everyone’s Problem of the WOW Festival 2020, in her role as President. During her speech, The Duchess said: 

‘Today I was delighted to speak at the 10th annual Women of the World Festival to highlight the important work that charities including Safelives and Refuge do to help survivors of domestic violence.’ The full speech is available here 

  • In June 2020, The Duchess of Cornwall joined a WOW (Women of the World) 24-hour festival to discuss her longstanding work on domestic abuse and announce a new patronage with charity SafeLives. 
  • In March 2021 The Duchess met with Darren O’Brien at Victoria Station to discuss the Rail to Refuge scheme. The initiative, coordinated by Rail Delivery Group and Women’s Aid, helps people to escape domestic abuse and reach a safe refuge quickly and free of charge. 
  • In September 2021, The Duchess of Rothesay officially opened the new refuge centre at South Ayrshire Women’s Aid. 

Duke of York Stripped of Military Titles and Royal Patronages

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A statement from Buckingham Palace regarding The Duke of York

A statement from Buckingham Palace regarding The Duke of York:

A statement from Buckingham Palace regarding The Duke of York

PORTRAITS TO MARK THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE’S 40TH BIRTHDAY

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Kensington Palace release three new photographic portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge, ahead of Her Royal Highness’ 40th birthday. Taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi.

PORTRAITS TO MARK THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE’S 40TH BIRTHDAY

Kensington Palace has released three new photographic portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge, ahead of Her Royal Highness’ 40th birthday tomorrow.

Taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi, the portraits will enter the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, of which the Duchess is patron.

Kensington Palace release three new photographic portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge, ahead of Her Royal Highness’ 40th birthday. Taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi.

Ahead of the gallery’s re-opening in 2023, the photographs will feature as part of its ‘Coming Home’ project, a nationwide initiative which sees portraits of well-known individuals being sent to locations which they are closely associated with. The project has enabled works from the National Portrait Gallery’s national collection to travel to towns and cities across the UK, providing communities with the opportunity to see famous works locally.

Kensington Palace release three new photographic portraits of the Duchess of Cambridge, ahead of Her Royal Highness’ 40th birthday. Taken at Kew Gardens in November 2021 by photographer Paolo Roversi.

The new images of the Duchess will be displayed over the course of 2022 in three places which have a special meaning to Her Royal Highness: Berkshire, St Andrews and Anglesey. Details on where and when each portrait will be shown as part of the ‘Coming Home’ project will be announced by the National Portrait Gallery in due course.

Duchess of Cambridge Celebrates 40th Birthday

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The Duchess of Cambridge with children from The Heathlands School during a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in south London, to take part in a Generation Earthshot event.

Duchess of Cambridge Celebrates 40th Birthday

9th January 2022

  1. Catherine was born at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on the 9th January 1982.
  2. Her full name is Catherine Elizabeth Middleton.
  3. Catherine’s parents are Michael and Carole Middleton. Her father was a pilot and her mother worked as an airline stewardess.
  4. The Duchess is the eldest of three children. Her siblings are Pippa and James.
  5. Catherine was christened at the parish church of St. Andrew’s Bradfield in Berkshire on 20 June 1982.
  6. In May 1984, at the age of two, The Duchess moved with her family to Amman in Jordan, where her father worked for two and a half years.
  7. The Duchess went on to Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where she studied Chemistry, Biology and Art at A-level.
  8. During her school years, Catherine played tennis, hockey and netball and participated in athletics, particularly high jump.
  9. The Duchess took a gap year following college, studying at the British Institute in Florence, undertaking a Raleigh International programme in Chile, and crewing on Round the World Challenge boats in the Solent.
  10. In 2001, The Duchess enrolled at the University of St. Andrews, from where she graduated in 2005 with a 2:1 in History of Art.
  11. Prince William and Catherine lived in the same dormitory at University. They also shared several classes which eventually led to them becoming friends.
  12. Catherine is almost six months older than Prince William. His birthday is in June.
  13. In 2002, the couple started dating although they did not go public with their relationship.
  14. Catherine worked as a part-time buyer for the clothing company Jigsaw Junior.
  15. Catherine is 5 feet and 9 inches tall and has the U.S. shoe size of 8.5.
  16. In 2007 media sources reported that Prince William and Catherine had split up.
  17. In 2010, Prince William and Catherine got back together in Kenya where they also were engaged.
  18. Catherine’s engagement ring is the same ring that the late Princess Diana had chosen from a catalogue in 1981 for her own engagement. It was made by Garrard & Co. who were the crown jewellers at the time and boasts a 12-carat sapphire stone surrounded by 14 diamonds set in white gold.
  19. Following their engagement, they attended their first official event, the launch of the new RNLI lifeboat “Hereford Endeavour” at Trearddur Bay, Wales.
  20. On her wedding day in 2011, she wore Queen Elizabeth II’s tiara. The jewelled crown is called the Halo Scroll Tiara and was made by Cartier in 1936.
  21. On marrying into the Royal Family, Catherine gained the title of Duchess of Cambridge, Countess of Strathearn when in Scotland, and Lady Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland.
  22. The Middleton family crest features acorns and oak leaves, and Catherine wore diamond earrings with dangling acorns on her wedding day – a gift from her parents.
  23. One of the most unique gifts the royal couple received on their wedding day was a tandem bike. The bike was a gift from London Mayor Boris Johnson.
  24. Announced in January 2012, Catherine’s first patronages were East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, the National Portrait Gallery, The Art Room, and Action on Addiction.
  25. The first time she agreed to do a magazine shoot was in June 2016. She appeared in a 10-page spread in Vogue’s centenary issue.
  26. The Cambridges’ have three children together. Their first, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge was born on July 22, 2013.
  27. Two years later, on May 2, 2015, Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born. Then on April 23, 2018, the couple’s third child, Prince Louis Arthur Charles.
  28. The Duchess enjoys testing out Mary Berry recipes. During an event in 2013, she told Mary Berry: “I’m a big fan of your cook books and your cakes.”
  29. Catherine’s favourite TV shows include “Downton Abbey,” “Game of Thrones,” and “Homeland.”
  30. In 2012, reality TV star Kim Kardashian released a limited edition shoe, named “The Duchess.” Kardashian claimed the shoe was designed for the Duchess’ 30th birthday.
  31. The Duchess loves the arts and became the first Royal Patron of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2018. She has also been a patron of the National Portrait Gallery since 2012.
  32. A keen photographer, The Duchess often takes the photos of her children released by the palace, and she serves as patron of the Royal Photographic Society.
  33. Richard Ward, a London hairdresser, is responsible for her signature locks.
  34. Catherine wasn’t officially introduced to the Queen for five years and first met Her Majesty at the wedding of Peter and Autumn Phillips.
  35. The Duchess is one of the only Royals to have never been seen on horseback. This is because she never learned to ride growing up and more importantly, she is allergic to horses.
  36. Catherine’s old school nickname was “Squeak,” as inspired by the school guinea pig. “There was one called Pip and one called Squeak, so my sister was called Pip and I was Squeak.”
  37. The Duchess was a member of her local Brownie troop as a girl and today works as a volunteer with The Scout Association.
  38. Catherine’s brother, James, breeds cocker spaniels and gave her and Prince William a dog called Lupo as a wedding gift. Sadly, Lupo passed away in 2020.
  39. The Duchess is a big fan of tennis and patron of the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club, which hosts the Wimbledon championships.
  40. The Duchess can play the piano. At a 2021 Christmas Eve concert HRH played the piano accompaniment in a performance at Westminster Abbey, alongside singer Tom Walker.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Release Happy Holidays Card

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Prince Harry and Meghan Release Happy Holidays Card

Thursday 23rd December 2021

This afternoon The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a personal holiday card featuring a new photo taken by Alex Lubomirski.

The image features Prince Harry, Meghan, Archie and Lilibet at their home in Santa Barbara, California and is the first publicly-released image of Lilibet.

Alongside the card, the couple have made donations to a number of organisations ‘working tirelessly to uplift families around the world’. 

The card is titled ‘Happy Holidays’ with the message reading as follows…

This year, 2021, we welcomed our daughter, Lilibet, to the world.
Archie made us a ‘Mama’ and a ‘Papa’, and Lili made us a family.
As we look forward to 2022, we have made donations on your
behalf to several organizations that honor and protect families – 
from those being relocated from Afghanistan, to American 
families in need of paid parental leave:

Team Rubicon
Welcome.us
Human First Coalition
Humanity Crew
&
Paid Leave For All
PL+US
Marshall Plan For Moms

Wishing you a happy holiday season and a prosperous 
New Year, from our family to yours!

As ever, 
Harry, Meghan,
Archie & Lili

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas – The Duchess of Cambridge’s Introduction

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Royal Carols: Together At Christmas - The Duchess of Cambridge's Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas - The Duchess of Cambridge's Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas – The Duchess of Cambridge’s Introduction

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas - The Duchess of Cambridge's Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas – The Duchess of Cambridge’s Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace

I’m so excited to be hosting Together at Christmas here at Westminster Abbey, a place that’s really special to William and me.

We wanted to say a huge thank you to all those amazing people out there who have supported their communities. We also wanted to recognise those whose struggles perhaps have been less visible too.

We’ve been through such a bleak time. We’ve seen so many challenges. We’ve lost our loved ones. We’ve seen frontline workers under immense pressure. And we’ve also been more emotionally and socially distanced and isolated from each other.

But I suppose through that separation, we’ve also realised how much we need each other and how acts of kindness and love can really bring us comfort and relief in times of distress.

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas - The Duchess of Cambridge's Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas – The Duchess of Cambridge’s Introduction. Credit: Kensington Palace

In the congregation tonight we’ve got many inspirational individuals. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude for all they’ve done in bringing people together and supporting their communities.

Tonight, we’re going to hear so many wonderful carols. Music was so important for me during the pandemic as I think it was to so many people, too. But above all it’s about celebrating the goodwill, the acts of kindness, love, empathy, and compassion to help people come through these difficult times. 

I hope everyone can enjoy this evening with their family and friends. And I wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

The Prince of Wales Will Carry Out Engagements in Wales

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The Prince of Wales walks with Lord Lieutenat of Tyne and Wear Susan Winfield as he arrives to meet representatives from London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the Changing Lives charity at Newcastle Central Station during a visit to Tyne and Wear. November 9, 2021.

THE PRINCE OF WALES WILL CARRY OUT ENGAGEMENTS IN WALES 

Friday 10th December 2021 

Engagement 1

The Prince of Wales will officially open Aberystwyth University’s new School of Veterinary Science. Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FD 

On arrival, The Prince of Wales will be met by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dyfed, Sara Edwards, the University’s Chancellor, Lord Thomas of Cwmgïedd, and Vice Chancellor Professor Elizabeth Treasure, along with other local dignitaries. 

The Prince will tour the new Veterinary Education Centre on the University’s Penglais campus and speak to the first cohort of students who began their studies in September this year. 

After touring the centre, His Royal Highness will sign the same visitors’ book that he signed back in 1969 while studying at Aberystwyth University, and then unveil a plaque to mark the official opening of the School. 

Established in 1872, Aberystwyth is a leading teaching and research university. 

The new Veterinary Education Centre has opened as part of Wales’ first and only School of Veterinary Science. The centre represents more than £2 million of investment in new teaching facilities on the University’s Penglais campus, which includes brand new anatomy and study facilities. The facilities were funded from a combination of alumni donations and the University’s own funds. 

The first students began their five-year degree in September this year. They will spend the first two years at Aberystwyth University followed by three years’ study at the Royal Veterinary College’s Hawkshead Campus in Hertfordshire. 

The programme covers the full range of animals, from domestic pets to farm animals, in common with all other veterinary programmes. The course also provides opportunities for students to study specific areas of veterinary science through the medium of Welsh, which is partly funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. 

The new School builds on over 100 years of animal health teaching and research at Aberystwyth University, and more recently, the successful introduction of a BSc Veterinary Biosciences degree in September 2015. 

As well as the new Veterinary School facilities on the University’s Penglais campus, the students also study in the excellent existing laboratory facilities enjoyed by students at the University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences and gain valuable experience on its dairy and sheep farms, and at the Lluest Equine Centre. 

Engagement 2

The Prince of Wales will open the new Exhibition of the Strata Florida Trust. Mynachlog Fawr, Abbey Rd, Ystrad Fflur, Ystrad Meurig, SY25 6ES 

The Prince of Wales will be received by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Dyfed, Sara Edwards who will present council members, Mr Andrew Green, Chairman of the Strata Florida Trust and Miss Carys Aldous-Hughes, Operational Director of the Strata Florida Trust. 

The Prince of Wales will visit the converted outbuildings including the Arddangosfa Mynachlog Fawr Exhibition and Beudy, before unveiling a plaque to commemorate the Official Opening of the Exhibition. 

Trustees, donors, tradesmen, volunteers and staff will attend the opening. 

The Prince of Wales last visited the site in 2017. 

The Strata Florida Trust has been active, with the help of The Prince’s Foundation and the World Monument Fund, in acquiring the medieval farmhouse adjacent to the Abbey ruins and in renovating its outbuildings. 

The Strata Florida Trust is a charity with two aims: to preserve the historical and architectural heritage of Mynachlog Fawr and its farm buildings, and to advance the education of the public about Strata Florida and its landscape and heritage. The Trust aims to do this by restoring all of the buildings to create The Strata Florida Centre, a place to celebrate Welsh history, culture and landscape. 

Today Strata Florida is made up of a variety of different elements: prehistoric cairns, wells and forts, the Cistercian abbey ruins; the early 19th century St Mary’s church, built on the site of original abbey chapel, and the nearby farm of Mynachlog Fawr. 

Strata Florida Abbey, now in the guardianship of Cadw, was once an important centre of culture, religion and trade, with connections spreading far across the Welsh landscape. Two of the most important surviving Welsh manuscripts, Brut y Tywysogion and the Hendregadredd Manuscript, were probably written at Strata Florida. Dafydd ap Gwilym, Wales’s most famous medieval poet, is reputedly buried here, as are several medieval Princes of Wales. 

So far, the Trust has restored two of its listed buildings, the Beudy in 2019 for use as the Trust offices and community space, and the Tŷ Pair and cartshed in 2021 to create the Mynachlog Fawr Exhibition. In the coming years the Trust aims to convert and restore all the other buildings. 

The Trust’s exhibition, which is being opened, tells the story of the farm through the ‘Mynachlog Fawr in 30 objects’ exhibition. Featuring a variety of objects and documents from the farmhouse and farm buildings, it provides the opportunity for visitors of all ages to discover and engage with the social and agricultural history of the house and local area. In addition, the exhibition contains a Virtual Histories interactive and educational experience that allows users to travel back to see a day in the life of Mynachlog Fawr Farm in the 1940s and the abbey in 1238. The building is also a place for visitors to relax and enjoy the historic building, with chairs next to the magnificent fireplace, a coffee machine, and a selection of second hand and local history books available to read. 

The Strata Florida Trust currently runs a variety of community events and workshops, including a community textile project created collaboratively by local people during the pandemic and co-ordinated by artist Catrin Williams into a banner depicting life in the area 100 years ago, which is now displayed in the exhibition. The Trust also runs both university training digs and a public dig open to all. 

Engagement 3

The Prince of Wales will visit Hafod Hardware store to celebrate independent businesses and show support for the local high street. East St, Rhayader, LD6 5DS 

The Prince of Wales will be received by the Lord-Lieutenant of Powys Tia Jones and introduced to store manager, Tom Jones. 

His Royal Highness will look around the store and meet staff of the independent, family-run business, including Tom’s grandparents Alan and Pauline Lewis, Tom’s wife, Laura Jones and his 4-year-old son, Arthur Jones – star of the shop’s viral advert (2019.) 

Hafod Hardware is one of the oldest businesses in Rhayader, dating back to 1895. The business has passed through the hands of three separate families and for the last 22 years has been owned by Alan and Pauline, with Tom joining the team 12 years ago. 

The shop is now one of the ‘must-see’ attractions of the town as these types of old ironmonger’s stores are becoming increasingly rare. 

The shop champions itself as a large supporter of the community. Hafod Hardware sponsors various sports teams, shows and events and makes annual donations to a variety of volunteer led organisations. These groups are big assets to the community, and the store values the community spirit they bring to rural villages. 

Over the last 4 years the shop has produced a series of festive videos with the purpose of raising the profile of independent businesses across the country, and to encourage people to shop local when they can. The videos have been extremely successful, with millions of views worldwide. 

Engagement 4

The Prince of Wales will visit the late 12th Century Cistercian Abbey, Abbey Cwmhir. Home Farm, Abbeycwmhir, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 6PH. 

On arrival at Home Farm, Abbeycwmhir, The Prince of Wales will be received by Lord-Lieutenant of Powys Mrs Tia Jones and greeted by local historian and Trustee of Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust, Julian Lovell, who will then introduce landowners Melvin and Anita Hamer of Home Farm, their niece and husband, Julie and David Evans. His Royal Highness will be accompanied to the Cwmhir Abbey ruins by Mr Lovell and community heritage project lead and Trustee of Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust, Dr Mel Walters and Chair of the Abbeycwmhir and Bwlchysarnau Community Council, David Jones After inspecting the Abbey ruins, Mr Lovell will accompany The Prince of Wales to the adjacent Cadw Exhibition Room, to show him further exhibits about the Abbey. 

Cwmhir Abbey was a Cistercian Abbey founded in the 12th Century. Its location was in a heavily contested part of Wales, between the Marcher Lords and the Welsh Princes. Many believe that the body of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was brought to be buried here after his ambush near Cilmeri on 11th December 1282. 

The Abbey was despoiled by Owain Glyndwr in 1401 during his uprising and it was also the site of a Civil War battle. These knock-backs meant that by the time of Henry VIII’s dissolution there were thought to be only three monks living there. In the centuries that followed, the Abbey church was plundered for its valuable building stone and the Abbey grounds were gentrified by its Victorian owners. Now, the site is an ancient monument, owned by Home Farm, with a small Exhibition Centre run by Cadw. For the last 35 years, a local heritage trust (Abbey Cwmhir Heritage Trust) has taken an active interest in the promotion of the Abbey and its history. Over the last two years the Trust has linked with the landscape archaeology research team at Strata Florida Abbey (a sister Cistercian Abbey on the opposite site of the Cambrian Mountains). Stimulated by this link, the Trust has conducted a wide range of community-based heritage activities including local heritage walks, an interpretation pamphlet for children, excavations and field schools open to the public. Through this, the Trust has developed an enthusiastic group of volunteers, who come from all walks of life and are finding ways in which to come together to promote the enjoyment of the heritage of the Abbey in this wonderful mid-Wales location. 

Engagement 5

The Prince of Wales will attend a reception to celebrate PRIME Cymru’s 20th year and the expansion of its volunteer mentoring programme. The Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5DY. 

The Prince of Wales will be received by the Lord-Lieutenant of Powys Tia Jones and introduced to the Chief Executive of PRIME Cymru David Pugh. 

His Royal Highness will proceed to meet with mentors and businesses supported by the scheme who will demonstrate their work with table-top displays. 

To conclude, Chief Executive of National Mentoring Day, Chelsey Baker will present The Prince of Wales with a national award, to acknowledge PRIME Cymru’s outstanding contribution to mentoring in Wales. 

This year marks 20 years since The Prince of Wales founded PRIME Cymru, in response to the many letters he was receiving from those aged over 50, who were facing overwhelming problems securing work because of their age. 

The charity is being honoured for its hugely successful mentoring programme, which has contributed to supporting over 15,000 over-50s into employment, self-employment, volunteering or training. The award is being presented by the National Mentoring Day initiative which recognises mentoring programmes making a difference. 

PRIME Cymru is expanding its mentoring programme to recruit and train an additional 200 new mentors. Mentors will be given free, accredited training, recognised by the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs. 

PRIME Cymru runs an extensive mentoring programme, providing expert guidance and free business support to help the over-50s in Wales to secure work, set up a business or upskill through training or volunteering. 

The charity celebrated its 20th anniversary year by revisiting clients from the last two decades, who are thriving thanks to the support they have received. The anniversary year was made extra special as they were awarded the Trusted Charity mark – the UK’s only quality standard recognising excellence within the third sector. 

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