Royal Visits

Visits by members of the Royal Family originate in many ways, examples of which follow. This list is not comprehensive as there are many variations:

Invitations extended by individuals, organisations and companies to open buildings, launch projects, commemorate anniversaries etc.
Invitations extended by national bodies e.g. headquarters of charities of which a member of the Royal Family is a Patron, headquarters of organisations of which a member of the Royal Family is President etc.
Invitations received by the Lord-Lieutenant and submitted to a specific Royal Household, or the Buckingham Palace Co-ordination and Research Unit (which is involved with all of the Royal Households in the planning of visits).
Requests from Royal Households to Lord-Lieutenants for additional items to add to a planned visit programme.

In all cases of locally originated requests the Lord-Lieutenant should be consulted. She will need to be given a brief outline of the event and likely duration, the period during which the visit is desired (the longer period the better), and whether a visit by a particular member of the Royal Family is desired, and if so the reason or justification for this.

Such are the demands made on the Royal Family there can never be any certainty that a particular invitation will be able to be accepted.

The Lord-Lieutenant is pictured presenting the Lord Mayor of Leicester to Her Majesty the Queen on a visit to Leicester in 2008

Royal Visits

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