Court Circular

KENSINGTON PALACE August 5th

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge this morning visited Barry Island Promenade and were received Her Majesty’s Lordlieutenant of South Glamorgan (Mrs Morfudd Meredith).

Their Royal Highnesses this afternoon visited Shire Hall Care Home, Overstone Court, Dumballs Road, Cardiff.

ST JAMES’S PALACE August 5th

The Earl of Wessex, Trustee, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, this morning held a Meeting with Ms Ruth Marvel (Chief Executive) and Ms Caroline Glen (Director of Fundraising) via video link.

His Royal Highness, Patron, the Tennis and Rackets Association, this afternoon held a Meeting with Mr David Watson (Chairman) via video link.

Today’s birthdays

Mr Michael Deeley, film producer, is 88; Sir Christian Bonington, mountaineer, writer and photographer, 86; Dame Barbara Windsor, actress, 83; Father J.

Felix Stephens, OSB, Master of

St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, 2007-12, 78; the Rt Rev Martin Wharton,

Bishop of Newcastle, 1997-2014, 76;

Prof Michael Mingos, Principal, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1999-2009, 76; Mr Ronald Davies, former MP and AM, 74; Mr Ed Sweeney, Chairman, ACAS, 2007-14, 66; Lord

Justice Baker 65; Mr Bill Emmott, author and consultant; Editor, The Economist, 1993-2006, 64; Viceadml Sir Ian Corder, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey; UK Military Representative to Nato and the EU, 2013-16, 60; and Lord Black

of Brentwood, Deputy Chairman, Telegraph Media Group, 56.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1809. It is also the anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, in 1945.