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Additional Member appointed to the Order to mark The King's Coronation
Her Majesty The Queen Camilla has helped support The King’s relationship with New Zealand and has promoted various charitable causes in the United Kingdom, internationally and in connection with New Zealand.
Her Majesty The Queen visited New Zealand as The Duchess of Cornwall with The King (then as The Prince of Wales) on three occasions in 2012, 2015 and 2019. Since 2005, she has become Patron or President of more than 90 charities, focusing her charitable work on health and wellbeing, literacy, sustainability, the arts, animal welfare and survivors of rape and sexual assault. During her visits to New Zealand, she has engaged with organisations aligned with her charitable work and interests. This has included engagement with Arohata Women’s Prison, the Wellington SPCA, and charities supporting migrant women, new mothers, and literacy programmes. She met with family violence groups Shine and the Battered Women’s Trust and was awarded the Trust’s Refuge Diamond Pin, which recognises service to families who have experienced violence. She has promoted the wellbeing of older citizens and keeping active, engaging with several such programmes in Christchurch, including Senior Chef, where she launched a cookbook for elderly people living alone. As Vice-Patron of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Her Majesty has promoted its essay writing competition for school students and addressed workshops for student writers in Christchurch, where she launched the 2020 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay competition.