The Royal Dispatch
The Royal Dispatch
Your royal pictures of the week and royal diary
Happy Sunday, Royal Clubbers, and welcome back to your new edition of The Royal Dispatch. If you missed the last one, you can read it here.
It’s Millie here, and we’ve had another busy week as King Charles and Queen Camilla left Australia and touched down in Samoa.
Exclusively for our paid members, you can watch our reporter Tracy’s video diaries as she accompanied the King and Queen Down Under.
Video diary one: A wet but warm welcome
Video diary two: Protests and pro-monarchy alpacas
Video diary three: BBQs and operatic finales
Before we get into this week’s best royal pictures, here’s some royal trivia for you.
On this day in royal history, 27 October 939, Edmund I acceded to the throne after his half-brother King Athelstan died, the ruler who united the kingdoms of England. He was tasked with the difficult job of keeping the newly unified England together.
While he succeeded in this task, Edmund’s reign only lasted six years, and he was stabbed to death at the Feast of St Augustine in his own hall in May 946.
If you’d like to read more royal history, don’t forget you can read my new monthly newsletter, The Royal Archive, in which I look at contemporary royal news through a historical prism. Marking the ongoing royal tour of Australia, last week’s post recalled previous occasions when the royals have headed Down Under.
While the main focus of the week has been King Charles and Queen Camilla’s colourful tour to Samoa, the European royals have also been busy with glamorous outings and even a royal engagement announcement.
Take a look at the highlights from the week below and scroll to the end for next week’s royal diary…