The year in royal work: The 2025 Chart

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Day 1: Duke of Kent

Day 2: Duke and Duchess of Gloucester

Day 3: Princess Anne

Day 4: Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh

Day 5: Prince and Princess of Wales

I will continue with my detailed analysis in the New Year.

As the year progressed, it felt like House of Windsor was making up for lost time. The four most senior members of the royal family all did far more engagements in 2025 than they did in 2024, when both King Charles and the Princess of Wales had surgery and then cancer treatment.

In total, the 10 working royals undertook 2,459 engagements, up 23 percent from the 2,001 engagements that the same royals did in 2024.

My data and analysis first appeared in the Daily Mirror, in which I’m identified as a “royal expert number-cruncher.” That article by royal editor Russell Myers and Jennifer Newton was compiled using Court Circular data updated as of December 18. Sure enough, King Charles did one more engagement the next day. So the data here includes that 533rd engagement of the year.

1. King Charles: 533 engagements

2. Princess Anne: 478

3. Prince Edward: 313

4. Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh: 235

5. Queen Camilla: 228

6. Duke of Gloucester: 212

7. Prince William: 202

8. Duchess of Gloucester: 113

9. Duke of Kent: 77

10. Kate, Princess of Wales: 68

1. Kate, Princess of Wales: Number of engagements in 2025 is up 423% from 2024

2. King Charles: up 51%

3. Prince William: up 45%

4. Queen Camilla: up 34%

5. Duchess of Gloucester: up 16%

6. Prince Edward: up 12%

7. Duke of Gloucester: up 10.42%

8. Princess Anne: up 10.39%

9. Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh: down 2%

10. Duke of Kent: down 9%

Note: I consider Princess Alexandra to effectively be retired though she still appears on occasions at royal events.

For those new to my Write Royalty newsletter, I’m a Toronto-based journalist who has been writing about the royals for more than two decades.

Since 2017, I’ve been collecting increasingly detailed information about the workloads of the royal family in massive spreadsheets. (During my career, I’ve spent years analyzing and displaying data in newsrooms, including a long stint as the chief of research for Maclean’s, the national magazine of Canada.)

I use information from the Court Circular, which is the official record of royal work. As the wording of each engagement changes somewhat, I’ve created specific rules so I treat similar engagements the same way. As my rules aren’t the same as others, my numbers may also not be the same as the data from others who track the Court Circular.

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