Overview
- Court Circular tallies show Charles completed 533 engagements, surpassing Princess Anne’s 478, though she worked on more days at 186.
- The 10 working royals logged 2,459 engagements in 2025, a 23 percent increase on 2024’s 2,001.
- Prince Richard, 81, carried out 212 engagements, narrowly topping the Prince of Wales’s 202, up from 139 the year before.
- Catherine resumed public duties with 68 engagements after announcing cancer remission and later spoke about the difficulty of recovery during a Colchester Hospital visit.
- Analysts note both renewed pace and capacity constraints as the working cohort has fallen from 16 in 2018 to 10, with Patricia Treble calling the King “indefatigable.”