The Society has a full and varied programme of activities which take place throughout the year. Details of events are publicised on this page, which is updated regularly.

NOTICES

• Tour of Westminster Abbey - 25th June

A further tour of the Abbey for members and a guest (who should be a prospective member) has been organised and will be held on the 25th of June. It will begin with Evensong at 5pm, followed by the tour itself and finish with drinks.

Interested members who have not yet contacted the Principal Secretary about attending the tour should do so without delay.

• Anniversary of the Nativity of James VII and II – Thursday 14th October

A short Service and laying of flowers will take at the King's statue in Trafalgar Square (outside the National Gallery. The will be held at 11am on Thursday 14th October 2010. All are welcome to attend on the day.

• Public Lecture – Wednesday 20th October 2010

Professor Howard Erskine-Hill, a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and biographer of Alexander Pope, will deliver a lecture on the subject “Alexander Pope's political connections.”

This will take place at 7pm, on Wednesday the 20th of October 2010, and will be held in the Parish Hall of Farm Street Church, which is entered from 114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH. (Nearest tube stations are Bond Street and Green Park). Refreshments will be available from 6.30 pm.

Non-members are very welcome to attend this lecture and admission is free of charge. There is no need to book in advance, please simply turn up on the evening.

King Charles II c. 1665 by J M Wright (National Portrait Gallery)	A scarce pub sign showing the head of King James II & VII. This is in Southwold, Suffolk

'Members of the Council of the Royal Stuart Society at the commemoration of the bicentenary of the death of King Henry IX & I (last of the Stuart Kings in direct male line) and pictured in the State Apartments at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in July 2007 beneath a portrait of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria and their children. From left to right Peter Horrocks, Vice Chairman of the Council, Mrs Richard Hickie, Thomas Fitzpatrick (with the Society's banner), Lord Aylmer, Chairman of the Council, Rafal Heydel-Mankoo, Lumsden of Cushnie and Dr Eveline Cruickshanks'

'The Society's Anglican Chaplain, the Revd Graeme Napier, at the statue of King Charles I in Trafalgar Square on 30 January 2007 to remember the martyrdom of the King on this date in 1649

Mr John Spoore RVM playing a lament at the King Charles statue on 30 January 2007