The Royal Family celebrated Commonwealth Day on Monday, March 9, with King Charles and Queen Camilla joined by senior royals during the annual multi-cultural service at Westminster Abbey. Prince William and Princess Kate joined Princess Anne and her husband Sir Tim Laurence at the event, along with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. But after Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie skipped Commonwealth Day for the second year in a row, a former royal butler is pointing out that King Charles isn't as “strict” as his late mother, Queen Elizabeth.
Highlighting the diverse countries making up the Commonwealth of Nations is important to King Charles, but one of his former butlers, Grant Harrold, says that the monarch doesn’t mind when family members have other duties. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh missed the service to go to the Paralympic Winter Games in Cortina, Italy, with Prince Edward—who turned 62 on March 10—attending in his role as patron of the British Paralympic Association.
