Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, are set to take on a tour of Australia and Singapore in November, Buckingham Palace has announced.
The visit will mark the 100th anniversary of the Royal Australian Cops of Signals, of which The Princess Royal is Colonel-in-Chief.
The princess is set to undertake a series of military engagements across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane during the four-day visit to commemorate the centenary.
The tour will take place from November 8 to 13.
Buckingham Palace have announced that Princess Anne will tour Australia and Singapore in November
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As President of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Princess Anne will lay a wreath at the Anzac Memorial to mark Remembrance.
Anne will also travel to Singapore to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Singapore, at the request of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
The Princess Royal visited Australia in 2022 and 2023. In 2022, she opened the Royal Easter Show to mark its 150th year and hosted a garden party for the charities and military patronages she supports.
In 2023, she visited the Royal Australian Corp of Transport, the Royal Botanic Gardens, and the New South Wales Mounted Police.
Anne and Sir Tim will be in Singapore on November 12 and 13. During the two-day visit, she will have audiences with the President and the Prime Minister of Singapore, as well as visit the Kranji War Memorial.
On the final day of the tour, she will visit the Airbus Asia Training Centre and Rolls-Royce’s Seletar Campus.
King Charles and Queen Camilla toured Australia in 2024
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Her last visit to Singapore was in November 2016 and included a visit to The Mission to Seafarers, in her role as President, and to Riding for the Disabled, in her role as Patron.
During her visit to Singapore in 1972, the 75-year-old was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, in a rare honour for foreign dignitaries.
The Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, recently issued an invitation to Prince William and Princess Kate.
If they were to accept, it would be their first overseas royal tour in three years.
He said: “I’m certainly hoping there will be one, there’s a standing invitation that the Royal Family are always welcome in Australia.
“It was wonderful to welcome King Charles and Queen Camilla to Australia recently, who had a very successful visit and His Majesty is very engaged and I hope that the Prince and Princess of Wales are able to visit as well and we are hopeful that might occur in the coming period.”
King Charles and Queen Camilla carried out their own royal tour of Australia in 2024.
Princess Anne last visited Singapore in 2016
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Royal expert Robert Jobson shared his opinions on the potential tour, saying: “The period, I think, is probably going to be the summer of the UK when the kids are not in school.
“I can’t see William and Kate going down to Australia and leaving the kids behind.
“Kate hasn’t really done a foreign trip of any significance since 2022. So this is a major trip for her.”
