However, the Court Circular stated that the engagement was attended only by the King, with no mention of the Queen. Dated as January 27, 2026, the document read: “The King this morning received representatives of the Holocaust Educational Trust. His Majesty, Patron, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, received survivors of the Holocaust and their families.
“The President of the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana visited The King this afternoon. Later, the Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP [Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury] had an audience of His Majesty.”
The royal’s official website, royal.uk, however, showed that the Queen joined the King.
The website stated that the royal couple “marked Holocaust Memorial Day by hosting a reception for survivors of the Holocaust and their families alongside organisations who are working to ensure the memory of the Holocaust lives on”.
King Charles and Queen Camilla hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace at which those who escaped the clutches of Nazi oppression spoke about their enduring hope for peace.
Following the initial reception, the couple then lit candles in a symbolic act of remembrance on the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.
As well as an array of attendees, King Charles also met relatives of survivors who are no longer alive, including Shary and Rafi Goldberg, the widow and son of Manfred Goldberg, who died last year, a survivor of Stutthof camp in Poland who was a staunch campaigner for Holocaust awareness.
Last year, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the monarch made a pilgrimage to the camp, where he viewed the haunting collection of personal effects confiscated from prisoners who arrived by train before being sent to their deaths.
In a deep, moving address, he said: “As the number of Holocaust survivors regrettably diminishes with the passage of time, the responsibility of remembrance rests far heavier on our shoulders, and on those of generations yet unborn. The act of remembering the evils of the past remains a vital task, and in so doing, we inform our present and shape our future.”