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I wonder if we'll see a tiara on Queen Camilla tomorrow morning for the Order of the British Empire service. If so, I'd guess the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland (which is what Queen Elizabeth II almost always wore to those services), or perhaps the Burmese Ruby tiara since the robe is a...

Geoffrey Fisher and Cosmo Lang also received the GCVO after the coronations that they performed.

The Sunday Times has new reporting on the arrangements for Harry's stay in London: King ‘offered Harry a royal residence for his visit’ (archive)

Does the UK even observe that protocol? Just from eyeballing the list, it looks like Elizabeth II received the longer-reigning monarchs of Sweden, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Belgium, Greece, Thailand, Nepal, Japan, and Afghanistan before she'd visited those monarchs (and in the case of Greece, Iraq...

The state visit is confirmed for June.

I think above. The Order of the Crown of India went above; this is slightly junior to that, but I think all of the official orders come first. Edit: On further review, I see that Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester wore the Order of the Crown of India below her RFOs and Princess Margaret wore...

https://www.royal.uk/appointments His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, K.G., K.T., A.D.C., to be Great Master of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Her Majesty The...

Four new members, including the Duchess of Gloucester, and some appointments to other orders: https://www.royal.uk/appointments His Majesty The King has been graciously pleased to appoint four new Companions to the Order of the Garter. The Companions are: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of...

Thomas Kingston, the husband of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent’s daughter Lady Gabriella Kingston, died from “traumatic head wound” and a gun was found near to his body in an outbuilding at his parent’s home in the Cotswolds, an inquest opening at Gloucestershire Coroner’s Court heard

Not naming them in the Gazette is the norm. They'd be named in the actual letters patent, but since 1980 the London Gazette just prints a short notification rather than the full text. You can see the full document for the Germany trip here, with the usual lack of any punctuation whatsoever, and...

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4369834 They were also used for the visit to Germany, but apparently not the rescheduled visit to France or the visit to Kenya. (I say apparently because I've noticed at least one gap in what was published in the London Gazette. We know from the Court...

I think it was during the Golden Jubilee tour. She was elsewhere in the UK a lot more than usual that year.

A long article in last weekend's Sunday Times about the unorthodox doctor who now heads the medical household: Revealed: the homeopath in charge of King Charles’s health (archive)

That would seem to be enough to get on the NYT list: 9,000 in the USA is probably less than he was hoping for based on Finding Freedom, but it might really be in the top 10 for non-fiction books sold this week. Most books don't sell 9,000 copies ever. It's not like television where things are...

I don't think the New York Post article is correct. There is a case against the Home Office but Harry wasn't in court personally.* The photograph is from the phone hacking case earlier this year (as seen on their own article about that). *BBC: "Cameras had gathered around the court entrance on...

From Richard Palmer at the Express: "Some royal fans are likely to be disappointed. I understand there won’t be a new Royal Family Order on show tonight."

Live feed of the arrival ceremony:

:previous:I think it's the badge of the Royal British Legion and the Veteran's Badge.

More legal problems for the Earl of Strathmore: Late Queen’s cousin banned from driving after being caught drunk behind wheel of Mercedes (archive) One of the late Queen’s cousins has been banned from driving after he was caught speeding while he was drunk at the wheel of his £100,000...

Even if they were both available, it's not a given that they would attend. That only became a regular thing in 2013. Before that, the last time the now-King had attended was in 1996.

I find it a bit odd too, but Edward VII and George V both wore it that way in their coronation portraits and when they opened Parliament. Perhaps it's more personal because it's a family order (though the current king never had it before he became sovereign of the order).

The Queen is indeed wearing the George IV diadem as was reported in several outlets. The King appears to be wearing the sash of the Royal Victorian Order and the Royal Victorian Chain for the first time since he became sovereign of the order. I wonder if that means he'll have a new star too. He...

The Getty album linked above has a picture of the Duchess of Wellington with her programme open, and I think I can just make out that it lists separate pages of honour for the King and Queen (I can't make out the names, but it's four for the King and two for the Queen), which would mean they'll...

She's one of the two gold sticks because she's colonel of the Blues and Royals, which she has been since 1998. She has attended the opening alternately with the colonel of the Life Guards since then (perhaps not including some of the "dressed down" ones that had reduced processions). She...

They don't seem to be aware that she's done it roughly every other time since 1998.