royal duties
Monarch's official tasks
Royal duties are the official responsibilities and ceremonial functions performed by members of a royal family.
These include state occasions, diplomatic receptions, charitable patronage, and public engagements representing the crown.
The phrase often appears in discussions of whether royals are earning their keep: She stepped back from royal duties to pursue a private life.
In constitutional monarchies, such duties are largely symbolic but politically significant.
- balcony appearancePublic showing from elevated platform
- ribbon-cuttingCeremonial opening event
- laying wreathsPlacing memorial flower arrangements
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
patronage · palace · robe · monarchy · investiture · trooping the colour · diplomacy · engagements · charity · succession · procession · Commonwealth · walkabouts · stewardship · audience · humanitarianism · handshakes · tradition
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- British Royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth, reign, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Prince Philip
- aristocratic educationtutors, governesses, etiquette, deportment, protocol
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria, Prince Albert, Victorian era, Victorian age, Balmoral Castle
royal dutiesleisure time
Unscheduled waking hours
personal freedom · free time · personal time · recreation · relaxation
royal dutiesprivate life
One's nonpublic existence
personal time · family life · behind closed doors · domestic life · anonymity