In mid December, King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted a reception at St James’s Palace to mark the return of HMS Prince of Wales at the end of an eight-month deployment (Photo: Royal family social media / Twitter)
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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
Day 6: The 2025 Chart
The King who wouldn’t quit.
Return of the King.
Charles in charge.
The monarch did so many engagements in 2025 – his most since 2019 – that the headlines wrote themselves. King Charles III may have been in his second year of cancer treatments but he wasn’t going to let that determine how he did his job.
Charles has always been a workaholic and that part of his personality was on display this year. At times it felt like he was determined to make up for all the engagements he couldn’t do in 2024. By February, he’d opened a lead on his sister, Princess Anne, which he never relinquished. By his last engagement on December 19, that gap had grown to 55 engagements.
He wasn’t alone in being seen far more in public. The four most senior royals, who had all been affected by cancer diagnoses, and subsequent treatment plans, posted the largest increases of all the 10 working royals.
Percentage increase in workloads in 2025, compared to 2024:
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Kate, Princess of Wales: up 423%
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King Charles: up 51%
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William, Prince of Wales: up 45%
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Queen Camilla: up 34%
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Queen Camilla finished the year with 228 engagements, the most she’s done since I started keeping detailed royal work statistics in 2017. That was well above her 2017-2024 average of 192 engagements a year.
If you eliminate the pandemic years as well as last year, then that multi-year annual average rises to 214, which is still 14 engagements below what she did in 2025. It’s an even more remarkable achievement given that she is 78 years old and has only been undertaking royal duties for the last two decades.
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Her role as queen consort means that Queen Camilla does a lot of her work inside royal residences. In 2025, she was behind gilded gates for 61 percent of her engagements, with Buckingham Palace, Clarence House, and Windsor Castle being the most popular royal locales for her events.