Overview
- The Buckingham Palace garden party, held Thursday to mark The King's Trust's 50th anniversary, brought together more than 4,000 supporters despite steady rain.
- Charles arrived alone on the palace steps, stood for the national anthem, used an umbrella for support as he descended, and spent over an hour greeting guests and Trust alumni.
- Sir Idris Elba said the King joked he would DJ and then pressed play on the decks, as Christian St Louis, a Trust-trained DJ, performed for guests sheltering under umbrellas.
- Celebrities and ambassadors including Dame Helen Mirren, Damian Lewis, Ant and Dec, Carl Cox, Holly Willoughby, Myleene Klass and Sir Gareth Southgate attended, with Ant and Dec presenting a commemorative yearbook.
- The King's Trust, founded in 1976 as The Prince's Trust, supports 11- to 30-year-olds with education, work and enterprise programs and says it has helped more than 1.3 million people.