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The 10 working royals did 2,459 engagements in 2025, up 23 percent from 2024, a year which saw reduced workloads due to illness. The 2025 numbers were also up two percent from 2023.
The workloads of the four most senior royals jumped the most in 2025, compared to 2024:
Kate: up 423%
Charles: up 51%
William: up 45%
Camilla: up 34%
My royal work data has been everywhere, including the Daily Mirror (the data for its exclusive story was completed a day before the King’s very last engagement of the year) and the Telegraph, which published its piece on Sunday.
Other publications, including Hello magazine, have used my data for their own stories with attributions, which is common in the media business. (Please ignore the Vanity Fair article published on Dec. 24, which, as of today, still spells my name incorrectly throughout — Teble, sigh — and also uses wrong royal work numbers. Double sigh. I’m trying to get it corrected.)
My latest post in this ongoing series on the work year is here.
For those who went offline during the holidays and want to catch up with news of how the royals marked Christmas, here’s my post, “6 subtle messages of a royal Christmas.”
The behind-the-scenes video of the recording of the King’s message is worth a watch:
The Royal Family@RoyalFamily
🎥 Thank you to the talented and creative team that brought The King’s Christmas Broadcast to life!
📺 Watch His Majesty’s message on our YouTube channel now (link in bio).
10:00 AM · Dec 26, 2025 · 175K Views
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The trailer to Finding Harmony dropped on Jan 1. The documentary airs on Amazon Prime on Feb. 6 and will delve into the monarch’s environmental philosophy of harmony (which emphasizes that all beings on this planet are inter-related and must be in balance with each other). He’s developed this belief system during his 55-odd years of environmental activism.
The fabulous actor Idris Elba was one of the highest-profile people on the New Year’s Honours list, released by the British government. He got a knighthood for his acting and charity work. Sir Idris spends a lot of time tackling the problem of youth knife crime in the U.K. He is also an ambassador for the King’s Trust, which gave him a grant that started his acting career
Ice dancing legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean got a damehood and knighthood, respectfully, for their contributions to skating (including that gold at the Sarajevo Olympics in 1984 for their Bolero performance).
And the Wales’s nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, got a Royal Victorian medal (a personal honour from the King, distinct from the other honours that are given on advice of the government)
The full list can be read in the Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/64940/supplement/N1
Did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex dump a pile of bad news at a time when most aren’t paying attention to the news? It sure felt that way to me as the news kept coming and coming over the holidays.
Charity trouble?
Their Archewell Foundation released its 2024 financial filing and the numbers weren’t great:
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