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In mid December, King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted a reception at St James\u2019s Palace to mark the return of HMS Prince of Wales at the end of an eight-month deployment (Photo: Royal family social media \/ Twitter)<\/p>\nIn mid December, King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted a reception at St James\u2019s Palace to mark the return of HMS Prince of Wales at the end of an eight-month deployment (Photo: Royal family social media \/ Twitter)<\/p>\n
I\u2019m offering a year-end holiday discount of 25%<\/strong> on annual subscriptions to my Write Royalty newsletter. Your support means a lot to me, so I hope you\u2019ll join to gain access to paywalled content. The special pricing ends January 15, 2026. <\/p>\n In addition, my rates are staying at CAD$6 \/ month or $60 \/ year. <\/p>\n Get 25% off for 1 year<\/a><\/p>\n Day 1:<\/strong> Duke of Kent<\/a><\/p>\n Day 2:<\/strong> Duke and Duchess of Gloucester<\/a><\/p>\n Day 3:<\/strong> Princess Anne<\/a><\/p>\n Day 4:<\/strong> Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n Day 5:<\/strong> Prince and Princess of Wales<\/a><\/p>\n Day 6:<\/strong> The 2025 Chart<\/a><\/p>\n The King who wouldn\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n Return of the King.<\/p>\n Charles in charge.<\/p>\n The monarch did so many engagements in 2025 \u2013 his most since 2019 \u2013 that the headlines wrote themselves. King Charles III may have been in his second year of cancer treatments but he wasn\u2019t going to let that determine how he did his job.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t do in 2024. By February, he\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n He wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n Percentage increase in workloads in 2025, compared to 2024:<\/p>\n Kate, Princess of Wales: up 423%<\/p>\n<\/li>\n King Charles: up 51%<\/p>\n<\/li>\n William, Prince of Wales: up 45%<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Queen Camilla: up 34%<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Queen Camilla finished the year with 228 engagements, the most she\u2019s done since I started keeping detailed royal work statistics in 2017. That was well above her 2017-2024 average of 192 engagements a year.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s an even more remarkable achievement given that she is 78 years old and has only been undertaking royal duties for the last two decades.<\/p>\n\n
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