Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited Singapore on 12–13 November 2025 to celebrate six decades of diplomatic ties, meeting key leaders and visiting prominent British-linked institutions.
SINGAPORE — On 12–13 November 2025, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal travelled to Singapore at the invitation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Singapore. Accompanied by Sir Tim Laurence, The Princess Royal engaged in a series of official visits and meetings over the two-day tour.
The visit began at the British High Commission Offices, where Her Royal Highness unveiled a plaque renaming the pavilion building as ‘The Princess Royal Pavilion’ to mark the milestone in bilateral relations. She then held audiences with the President of Singapore and with Prime Minister Mr. Lawrence Wong, reflecting the strong political and diplomatic partnership between the two nations.
Her Royal Highness also toured key industrial and technological sites. At the Airbus Asia Training Centre, the world’s largest flight crew training facility, she observed A350 flight simulations. Later, she visited the Rolls-Royce Seletar Campus, Singapore’s largest Rolls-Royce manufacturing facility established in 2012, where she received briefings on production operations and visited the company’s Regional Training Centre, the first of its kind in Asia.
This visit continues The Princess Royal’s longstanding engagement with Singapore. Her previous visit in November 2016 included The Mission to Seafarers and Riding for the Disabled, reflecting her roles as President and Patron respectively. Notably, during her visit in 1972, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, a rare honour for a foreign dignitary.
Source: British High Commission
