King Charles, Queen Consort Camilla and senior members of the Royal Family have stepped out in force tonight in a show of unity. The monarch and his wife were joined by Prince Edward, Princess Anne, the Duke of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Alexandra at a reception in central London.
It comes as Charles and Camilla continue to make a show of unity with fellow members of the Royal Family in the wake of the Duke of Sussex‘s bombshell memoir Spare.
King Charles met representatives from British east and south-east Asian communities at today’s reception at Buckingham Palace.
The reception takes place not long after the Lunar New Year, a holiday to honour household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors.
Guests include representatives from the Armed Forces, the arts, media, fashion, business, government and finance.
Hundreds of people from the local community are enjoying free hot drinks and soup, and practising sociable activities such as craft, board games and knitting in the Orchard Room on Charles’s Highgrove estate in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, as part of the Winter Warmers project.
The scheme – organised by The Prince’s Foundation – is also taking place at the charity’s headquarters Dumfries House in East Ayrshire and the Queen Mother’s former home the Castle of Mey in Caithness.
Running from January to March, the weekly initiative provides a welcoming place for local people to gather and offers a warm haven for those who may not be able to heat their own homes amid the rising energy costs.
Such has been the demand the free tickets have already sold out for all sessions.
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Charles highlighted the cost-of-living difficulties facing the nation in his first-ever Christmas message, sympathising with families struggling to make ends meet and praising individuals, charities and faith groups supporting those in need.
He spoke about the “great anxiety and hardship” experienced by many trying to “pay their bills and keep their families fed and warm” during his televised message, which featured footage of a food bank and other scenes of meals being distributed to the homeless.
Footage of a Winter Warmers event being staged on the Highgrove estate on Tuesday showed members of the local community seated at round tables in the Orchard dining room, tucking into bowls of soup and having cups of tea, as they chatted, with some making wool pompoms as part of a craft activity.
The Orchard Room, which is usually open to visitors after Garden Tours, is set within the gardens of Charles’s Highgrove home.
Today’s reception also follows a Holocaust survivor being made an MBE.
The 99-year-old great-grandmother who became a founding member of the UK’s Holocaust Survivor Centre has said words cannot explain how much it means to her after receiving the honour from the King.
Lily Ebert was recognised for her services to Holocaust education at Windsor Castle on Tuesday after being included in the New Year Honours list – the first overseen by Charles since his ascension to the throne.
With her while she accepted the award was her great-grandson, 19-year-old Dov Forman.
The pair have accrued billions of views on video-sharing platform TikTok in an effort to educate the younger generation on the Holocaust.
