The King and Queen’s most costly royal journeys revealed
The royal household considerably elevated its overseas journey within the 12 months main as much as March 2025, marking a notable uptick in engagements following a interval overshadowed by the King and the Princess of Wales present process most cancers remedy.
This surge in exercise noticed each the frequency and scope of abroad visits increase.
Official experiences for 2024/25 reveal 43 separate journeys by members of the Royal Household the place journey prices have been no less than £17,000, a considerable rise from the 27 journeys recorded within the earlier 12 months.
The King himself undertook 13 of those engagements, a rise from eight in 2023/24.
Amongst these, the most costly expedition was an 11-day go to by the King and Queen to the Commonwealth Heads of Authorities Assembly (CHOGM) in Samoa in October 2024.
This in depth tour, which additionally included engagements in Australia, incurred journey prices totalling £400,535. As King of Australia, half of the flight bills for this main abroad journey have been funded by the Australian authorities.
Following their attendance on the Commonwealth leaders’ summit, the King and Queen made a broadly reported journey to a luxurious wellness retreat in Bengaluru, India, which was paid for privately.
The King was additionally concerned within the second most costly journey on the listing, a three-day go to with the Queen to Northern Eire in March 2025 (£80,139).
The third most costly journey was a go to by the Prince of Wales to Estonia in March 2025, the price of which included two earlier journeys by employees for planning functions, and which added as much as £55,846 in complete.
Finishing the highest 5 are a two-day journey by the King on the royal practice in February 2025 to Staffordshire, to go to the JCB manufacturing unit in Rocester and the Tower Brewery in Burton upon Trent, which value £44,822; and a two-day journey by the Duke of Edinburgh to Estonia in January 2025 to go to the Royal Dragoon Guards whereas on a army operation, which value £39,791.
Of the 13 journeys involving the King that seem on the listing, eight have been undertaken with the Queen and 5 by himself.
Along with the journeys already talked about, the King’s different prices have been:
- A constitution flight with the Queen between royal residences in April 2024 (£21,184)
- A two-day journey on the royal practice to Crewe in Might 2024 (£33,147)
- A two-day go to with the Queen to northern France in June 2024 for the D-Day eightieth anniversary commemorations (£29,890)
- A two-day go to with the Queen to the Channel Islands in July 2024 (£28,872)
- A constitution flight between royal residences in July 2024 (£22,529)
- A constitution flight with the Queen between royal residences in September 2024 (£20,113)
- A second constitution flight with the Queen between royal residences in September 2024 (£19,956)
- A constitution flight between royal residences in October 2024 (£20,619)
- A one-day go to to Poland in January 2025 to attend occasions marking the eightieth anniversary of the Holocaust, together with a separate go to by employees in December 2024 for planning functions (£30,232);
- And a one-day go to by aircraft with the Queen to Middlesbrough in February 2025 (£18,394).
There are not any solo visits by the Queen on the listing.
Except for the royal visits to Samoa/Australia, Estonia, Poland and northern France, the one different journeys outdoors the UK to characteristic on the listing are:
- A two-day journey by the Duchess of Edinburgh to Italy in Might 2024 to attend army remembrance occasions (£32,380)
- A one-day go to by the Prince of Wales to northern France in June 2024 as a part of the D-Day commemorations (£25,696)
- A two-day go to by the Princess Royal to the Netherlands in September 2024 for occasions commemorating the Second World Struggle (£17,327)
- A nine-day go to to Nepal by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in February 2025 (£26,028)
- A 3-day go to to Dresden by the Duke of Kent in February 2025 (£22,332)
- And a return flight by the Princess Royal from a gathering of the Worldwide Olympics Committee in Kalamata in Greece in March 2025 (£21,440).
Except for the 13 journeys on the listing that concerned both the King or the King and the Queen, 11 have been undertaken by the Princess Royal; 5 by the Duke of Edinburgh; 4 by the Prince of Wales; three by the Duchess of Edinburgh; three by each the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh; two by the Duke of Kent; one by the Duchess of Gloucester; and one by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.