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King Charles Named 2025’s Busiest Royal as Duties Surge, Duke of Gloucester Edges William

Buckingham Palace says his care moves to a precautionary phase with weekly sessions significantly reduced.

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.”