{"id":2351070,"date":"2026-03-30T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2351070"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:53:10","slug":"royal-familys-1600-clocks-had-to-be-manually-changed-including-henry-viii-wedding-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-familys-1600-clocks-had-to-be-manually-changed-including-henry-viii-wedding-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family&#8217;s 1,600 clocks had to be manually changed &#8211; including Henry VIII wedding gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_565dd1\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Three horological conservators worked through the weekend to manually change more than 1,600 timepieces in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and royal palaces<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Byline_byline-container__K_Owl\" data-testid=\"byline\"><span class=\"Byline_byline-content-wrapper__Imque\" data-testid=\"byline-content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"Byline_author-badge-date-wrapper__Q7jj1\">\n<div class=\"Byline_author-and-badge-wrapper__2dsv1\">\n<p><span><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_565dd1\">Will Warnes<\/strong><\/span><span> and <strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_565dd1\">Chris Ballinger<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"\" data-testid=\"byline-publishedDate\">07:41, 30 Mar 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><button class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX ImageEmbed_image-lead__Ti3qQ\" data-testid=\"leadimage\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36941363\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.5\"><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"A team of just three people worked through the weekend to change the time on more than 1,600 clocks owned by the Royal Family\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A team of just three people worked through the weekend to change the time on more than 1,600 clocks owned by the Royal Family<cite aria-label=\"Image:  Royal Collection Trust\/PA Wire \" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image:  Royal Collection Trust\/PA Wire )<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">For most of us, the trickiest part of the clocks changing is simply remembering how to reset the time on the oven clock \u2014 so spare a thought for three individuals employed by the <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Royal FamilyLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/royal-family\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Family<\/a>, who have spent this weekend manually adjusting more than 1,600 timepieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The clocks sprang forward by one hour overnight at 1am on Sunday to signal the beginning of British Summer Time (BST). A trio of horological conservators have been working throughout the weekend to update the timepieces housed within the Royal Collection for <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/king-charles-iii\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">King Charles<\/a> and the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">These include 450 at Windsor Castle, 350 at <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/buckingham-palace\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\">Buckingham Palace<\/a> and St James&#8217;s Palace in London, and 50 at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"image-group\"><button class=\"SlideViewerButton_slide-viewer-button__BDJoG\" aria-label=\"Open image viewer\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-controls=\"image-lightbox\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-embed__0T8WX false\" data-testid=\"imageembed-36941362\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36941362\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"ImageEmbed_image-container__2AIQm\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__Uce4f\" style=\"--figure-aspect-ratio:1.4\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Undated handout photo issued by the Royal Collection Trust of a Horological Conservator adjusts a late-18th-century French marble&#10;mantel clock in the Centre Room in the East Wing of Buckingham Palace\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 458px, (max-width: 615px) 615px, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article36941362.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_01HT5Q4RQDJC6A07SZ2FR1RVRX.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article36941362.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s458b\/0_01HT5Q4RQDJC6A07SZ2FR1RVRX.jpg 458w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article36941362.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s615b\/0_01HT5Q4RQDJC6A07SZ2FR1RVRX.jpg 615w, https:\/\/i2-prod.mirror.co.uk\/article36941362.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200e\/0_01HT5Q4RQDJC6A07SZ2FR1RVRX.jpg 1200w\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"ImageCaption_caption__j7HRu\" data-testid=\"image-caption\">\n<p aria-label=\"The collection also includes Queen Charlotte\u2019s watch, which was the first to have a lever escapement and is considered to be a forerunner of modern wrist and pocket watches\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The collection also includes Queen Charlotte\u2019s watch, which was the first to have a lever escapement and is considered to be a forerunner of modern wrist and pocket watches<cite aria-label=\"Image: Royal Collection Trust\/PA Wire\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-credit__wlx1W\" data-testid=\"caption-credit\">(Image: Royal Collection Trust\/PA Wire)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<p><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_7e1458\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36941285\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/seventh-british-tourist-dies-cape-36941285\" tabindex=\"0\">Seventh British tourist dies after falling ill on \u00a36k Cape Verde holiday<\/a><\/span><\/span><span data-testid=\"readmore\" class=\"ReadMore_readmore-prefix__xS44r __className_7e1458\">READ MORE<!-- -->: <span class=\"ReadMore_readmore-link__eF9pN\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"36941278\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/two-people-rushed-hospital-after-36941278\" tabindex=\"0\">Two people rushed to hospital after crash involving ambulance in Liverpool<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Royal Collection Trust noted that the timepieces within the collection rank amongst the finest and most historically significant items held at the palaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Among them are musical clocks, astronomical clocks and miniature clocks. The oldest piece in the collection is the Anne Boleyn Clock, which is believed to have been presented by Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn on the morning of their wedding in 1532.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The collection also features Queen Charlotte&#8217;s watch, the first ever to incorporate a lever escapement and widely regarded as a forerunner of the modern wrist and pocket watch. At 1am on March 30, the clocks sprang forward by one hour, and they will turn back by one hour at 2am on October 25, reports <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mylondon.news\/news\/1600-clocks-owned-royal-family-28915518\" rel=\"follow\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">MyLondon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.mirror.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three horological conservators worked through the weekend to manually change more than 1,600 timepieces in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and royal palaces Will Warnes and Chris Ballinger 07:41, 30 Mar 2026 A team of just three people worked through the weekend to change the time on more than 1,600 clocks owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2351071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[26597,456220,402786,310876,22769,456219,350701],"class_list":["post-2351070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-buckingham-palace","tag-charlotte-of-mecklenburg-strelitz","tag-henry-viii","tag-marriage","tag-royal-family","tag-transportation-safety-board-of-canada","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Royal-Familys-1600-clocks-had-to-be-manually-changed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351072,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351070\/revisions\/2351072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}