{"id":2228063,"date":"2026-01-09T07:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2228063"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:46:30","slug":"this-surprising-royal-earned-the-hardest-working-title-for-2025-but-i-have-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-surprising-royal-earned-the-hardest-working-title-for-2025-but-i-have-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"This Surprising Royal Earned the \u2018Hardest Working\u2019 Title for 2025\u2014But I Have Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Drumroll, please: The Court Circular has spoken<\/a> and the \u201chardest-working\u201d member of the royal family for 2025 comes as a bit of a surprise. Who earned the top rank for last year? None other than King Charles. Brava.<\/p>\n

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The tally is based on a count of official outings from the beginning of the year through December 18. Per The Mirror<\/a><\/em>, who got the exclusive on the Crown Circular\u2019s results, the king carried out a whopping 532 engagements, despite his weekly cancer treatment, with Princess Anne coming in a close second with 478 official duties in 2025.<\/p>\n

But hear me out for one minute. With only 365 days in a year\u2014and, count \u2018em, 532 engagements\u2014the royal math isn\u2019t totally math-ing for me. King Charles did<\/em> do quite a bit in 2025, traveling to Italy<\/a> and Canada<\/a> for royal tours, hosting everyone from French President Macron<\/a> to German President Steinmeier<\/a> for state visits and more. But he also took some much-deserved PTO, too. So, how did he carry out more engagements than days in the year? (This applies to Anne, too.)<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll admit that, post-Spare<\/em><\/a>, I still have Prince Harry\u2019s words in my head. He referred to the Court Circular\u2019s annual record of \u201cofficial engagements\u201d as a \u201csinister document.\u201d He continued: \u201cCertain family members had become obsessed, fervishly striving to have the highest number of official engagements recorded in the Circular each year, no matter what, and they\u2019d succeeded largely by including things that weren\u2019t, strictly speaking, engagements, recording public interactions that were mere blips…\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not meant to impune the work of the king\u2014or any royal work\u2014that has<\/em> been done. It\u2019s more that with such a data-driven document, it might be helpful to also see a list of each and every engagement (or royal handshake) that counts.<\/p>\n

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Back to the numbers: Beyond Charles and Anne (who came in second after many, many years at the top), the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Edward) was next with 313 engagements, followed by his wife, Duchess Sophie, who took on 235 engagements herself. Queen Camilla was fifth with 228 engagements, which leaves Prince William and Kate Middleton (who was still taking it easy following her cancer treatment) coming in last with a respective 202 and 68 royal engagements. Altogether, the working royals carried out 2,248 engagements\u2014up 22 percent from 2024\u2014and an impressive feat.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, what matters is that so many important causes are made visible through the support of the royal family. But if someone is<\/em> going to keep track, a bit more transparency that speaks to quality, and not just quantity, may be required.<\/p>\n

The Hardest-Working Royal of 2024 Is…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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