THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX

The Duchess went into labour in the early hours of this morning. The Duke of Sussex was by Her Royal Highnesses’ side. An announcement will be made soon.

THE QUEEN AND MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY ATTEND THE WEDDING OF LADY GABRIELLA WINDSOR AND MR THOMAS KINGSTON

SATURDAY 18^th MAY 2019

The wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor and Mr Thomas Kingston will take place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on Saturday 18^th May 2019. The wedding will be attended by Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by Members of the Royal Family.

The marriage ceremony will commence at 12pm, conducted by the Dean of Windsor, The Right Revd David Conner.

THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE TO VISIT BLETCHLEY PARK D-DAY EXHIBITION

Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes

Tuesday 14th May, 2019

The Duchess of Cambridge will visit Bletchley Park on Tuesday 14th May, to view a special D-Day exhibition in the newly restored Teleprinter Building, marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

The historic Bletchley Park Teleprinter Building was where Codebreakers received hundreds of thousands of enemy messages, intercepted at secret listening posts across the UK, throughout the Second World War. The building will now host the special exhibition D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion.

The exhibition includes an immersive film, based on newly declassified material, which shows how the intelligence effort coordinated at Bletchley Park helped specifically in the success of the D-Day landings at Normandy. Using sophisticated codebreaking techniques, workers at Bletchley Park fed crucial information to Allied forces in the critical months, weeks and days leading up to D-Day on 6th June 1944.

The Duchess will view the interactive exhibition and meet with those who worked together to deliver the restoration of the building. Her Royal Highness will then meet schoolchildren taking part in one of Bletchley Park Trust’s learning activities. An immersive workshop based on the new exhibition allows pupils to take on the role of codebreakers in June 1944, intercepting and deciphering German communications in order to understand their order of battle and decide whether the Operation Fortitude deception plans have been successful.

The Duchess of Cambridge visited Bletchley Park in 2014, following the restoration of the exhibition and heritage site. During the visit, Her Royal Highness met with veteran codebreakers who worked at Bletchley alongside The Duchess’s grandmother Valerie Glassborow, and her twin sister Mary, during the Second World War.

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE TO MARK HER FOURTH BIRTHDAY

Wednesday 1^st May, 2019

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share three new photographs of Princess Charlotte ahead of her fourth birthday tomorrow.

The photographs were taken in April by The Duchess at Kensington Palace and at their home in Norfolk.

The Duke of Sussex will visit The Netherlands

The Duke of Sussex will visit The Netherlands on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th May 2019.

While in The Netherlands, The Duke will undertake an official engagement in Amsterdam.

His Royal Highness will then travel to The Hague to officially launch the one year countdown to the Invictus Games The Hague 2020.

THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE WILL ATTEND A SERVICE TO RECOGNISE FIFTY YEARS OF CONTINUOUS AT SEA DETERRENT

Westminster Abbey, London

Friday 3rd May, 2019

The Duke of Cambridge will attend a Service at Westminster Abbey to recognise fifty years of continuous deterrent at sea in his capacity as Commodore-in-Chief of the Submarine Service.

This service will recognise the commitment of the Royal Navy to effective peace-keeping through the deterrent over the past fifty years and to pray for peace throughout the world.

His Royal Highness will perform a reading at the service. The Duke of Cambridge became Commodore-in-Chief in 2006.

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge to be a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

The Queen has been pleased to make the following appointment to the Royal Victorian Order:-

To be a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO).
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge

THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE TO VISIT NORTH WALES

Wednesday 8th May, 2019

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit North Wales on Wednesday 8th May to meet with individuals and organisations in the region who are encouraging people to look after their communities and protect the natural environment.

Their Royal Highnesses will firstly visit the Caernarfon Coastguard Search and Rescue Helicopter Base. Until 2015, search and rescue operated out of RAF Valley on Anglesey, where The Duke worked as an RAF search and rescue pilot between 2010-2013. Their Royal Highnesses will view the Coastguard’s new Sikorsky S92 helicopters, and meet members of the search and rescue team, many of whom previously worked alongside The Duke at RAF Valley. The Duke and Duchess will then join a discussion with crewmembers about the mental health challenges that result from working as first responders, and will also meet staff from the Wales Air Ambulance, which operates next door to Caernarfon Search and Rescue.

From Caernarfon, Their Royal Highnesses will travel to Anglesey to visit Halen Môn Anglesey Sea Salt, a thriving local business which has been operating for over two decades, and which won the Queen’s Award for Sustainability in 2017. The Duke and Duchess will see the salt making process from hand harvesting to packaging, and will learn more about Halen Môn’s collaborations with other local food producers, and their involvement in community initiatives.

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THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE TO OPEN ANNA FREUD CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

London

Wednesday 1st May, 2019

The Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, will officially open the new Centre of Excellence at Rodney Street on Wednesday 1st May. Her Royal Highness will also visit the Pears Family School in its new building and meet with children and their families participating in a music class.

The new building, The Kantor Centre of Excellence, brings together for the first time under one roof, experts and leading practitioners in neuroscience, mental health, social care, child development, research and education, alongside children, young people and their families. By combining all of the elements required to improve both understanding and practice in children’s mental health, in one coherent space, the Centre can continue to pursue its ambition of transforming mental health provision for children and their families across the UK.

The Anna Freud Centre’s work now reaches over one million children in schools as they work to reduce the burden of mental health difficulties that children can face. For those unsuited or unable to meet the demands of mainstream school provision, the Pears Family School can help. The school combines mental health care and education, for children aged 5-14, in a setting in which a parent or significant adult family member participates in the classroom with their child.

This visit marks The Duchess’s continued desire to shine a spotlight on child mental health issues and the importance of early intervention, and working with the whole family, can make to those in vulnerable situations. Her Royal Highness is keen to draw attention to the ways in which this charity is making progress in their work to lead a step change in children’s and young people’s mental health care.

The Duchess of Cambridge first visited The Anna Freud Centre in 2015, before becoming Patron in February 2016. Since then, Her Royal Highness has visited the Family School and the Centre’s Early Years Parenting Unit (EYPU) and has met many professionals and experts from the Centre through her Early Years work with The Royal Foundation and the ‘Mentally Healthy Schools’ initiative, of which the Centre is a key partner.

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