Royal Engagements

The Queen holds an Investiture at Buckingham Palace. The Prince of Wales visits Hawes in the North Yorkshire Dales to launch the Dales Action for the Rural Enterprise Project; and visits West Cumbria Day Centre in Cockermouth before visiting Caldbeck in Cumbria to launch the Northern Fells Rural Project. The Duke of York visits Bahrain. The Princess Royal, Patron, the Basic Skills Agency, chairs the morning session of the Annual Conference at Glaziers' Hall, London SE1; as Patron, British School of Osteopathy, attends the Annual Graduation and Degree Conferment Ceremony at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1; and attends the British Indian Diwali of the Century Banquet at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1. Princess Margaret, Colonel-in-Chief, attends the annual reception of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps in the Great Hall of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3. The Duke of Kent visits firms in the South Yorkshire area on behalf of the Institute of Directors; and attends the "Grand Day" dinner of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in the Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2.

Changing of the Guard

The Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment mounts the Queen's Life Guard at Horse Guards, 11am; 1st Battalion Welsh Guards mounts the Queen's Guard, at Buckingham Palace, 11.30am, band provided by the Irish Guards.