Royal news live: King Charles to celebrate milestone birthday in very unique way as Camilla continues recovery
It is hoped the hubs will help charities like FareShare and the Felix Project to support communities in need
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Your support makes all the difference.King Charles will turn 76-years-old on Thursday – and will mark the special date by hosting a surplus food festival.
The King will open two hubs designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food to mark the first anniversary of the Coronation Food Project, an initiative to support charities feeding the nation with unwanted food.
It is hoped the hubs will help charities like FareShare and the Felix Project to support communities in need.
Charles will tour the new facility, and take a look at a newly installed industrial freezer, which will increase capacity by 400 per cent, improving the charity’s ability to preserve more surplus food.
It comes as Queen Camilla said she is “getting much better” as she arrived at a Booker Prize reception in her first public engagement since falling ill with a chest infection.
The Queen’s illness forced her to miss gathering with the King, the Princess of Wales and the rest of the royal family at the annual Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph, and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall the evening before.
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Kate’s diamond and pearl drop earrings belonged to the late Queen and she wore her silver Queen’s Dragoon Guards brooch – in a nod to her role as the regiment’s Colonel-in-Chief – beneath three red poppies.
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Lexie Pallett, 16, marched with the charity Scotty’s Little Soldiers, which supports hundreds of bereaved military children and young people.
Lexie, who also marched in 2022, said: “I’m immensely proud of me being here today, but I’m also proud of the fact that I’m here to honour my dad and honour the things that he did while he was in service.”
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King to mark 76th birthday by opening food distribution hubs
The King will open two hubs designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food as he marks his 76th birthday.
The opening of the distribution centres will also mark the first anniversary of the Coronation Food Project, an initiative to support charities feeding the nation with unwanted food.
Charles, who celebrates his birthday on Thursday, will open the initiative’s first two Coronation Food Hubs – one in person and one virtually.
It is hoped the hubs will help charities like FareShare and the Felix Project to support communities in need.
The hub the King is visiting will host a “surplus food festival”, with meals created from food which would otherwise have gone to waste.
Charles will tour the new facility, meeting beneficiaries and representatives of food banks, schools and community groups.
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