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Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence attending the Whitley Awards Ceremony 2024 at The Royal Geographical Society, on 01 May 2024.

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SIR TIM LAURENCE APPOINTED KENT CRICKET CLUB PRESIDENT FOR 2025

Published Friday 26th April 2024

Kent Cricket is delighted to confirm that Vice-Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence KCVO, CB, ADC(P) will be the Club’s President once more in 2025.

Sir Tim was originally appointed as the President for 2020, the Club’s 150th Anniversary Year, but the outbreak and management of the COVID-19 Pandemic hampered both his Presidency and the Club’s celebrations. He will succeed Judy Ufton as Club President on 1 January 2025 until the end of that calendar year.

Sir Tim has a strong connection to Kent and a lifelong passion for the game. Having been brought up in Ightham, he was educated at Sevenoaks School, where he was a key member of their 1st XI, batting at the top of the order with former Kent captain Chris Tavaré and former Kent Director of Cricket, Paul Downton.

He attended Durham University, where he represented his College cricket team. Upon leaving Durham, he completed his initial training at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth. During his distinguished naval career, Sir Tim commanded four warships and held several Ministry of Defence positions, including Chief Executive, Defence Estates.

Since his retirement from the Navy in 2010, Sir Tim pursues a number of non-executive and charitable interests. These included being Chairman of English Heritage which has many historic sites across Kent, Vice Chairman of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and a Trustee of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and HMS Victory.

Sir Tim will be the Club’s eighth multi-year President after The 3rd Lord Harris (1870-71), A.C. Norman (1914-18), The 4th Lord Northbourne (1930-31), Major H.S. Hatfield (1938-45), Sir Edward Hardy (1957-58), Lt. Col. W.O.H. Joynson (1959-60) & Lady Kingsdown (2015-16). He will be the first Kent Cricket President to have more than one year in the role inconsecutively.

Kent Cricket’s Chair, Simon Philip, said: “We are delighted that Sir Tim has accepted Presidency of the Club once more after holding the post five years ago.

“Our 150th Anniversary Year and Tim’s presidency did not turn out as planned and so it is great that Tim will now be able to enjoy fully being President and we will be able to benefit from his input into the Club and our Men’s and Women’s cricket.”

Sir Tim Laurence said: “It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to take on the Presidency for a second time.”

“I much look forward to becoming more closely involved with the Club again and to providing whatever support and encouragement I can.”

#as someone who comes from a family of Kent CCC fans this is exciting🏏 #also very apt that the Kent ground is the St Lawrence Ground

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His Majesty The King will shortly return to public-facing duties after a period of treatment and recuperation following his recent cancer diagnosis.

To help mark this milestone, The King and Queen will make a joint visit to a cancer treatment centre next Tuesday, where they will meet medical specialists and patients. This visit will be the first in a number of external engagements His Majesty will undertake in the weeks ahead.

In addition, The King and Queen will host Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan for a State Visit in June, at the request of HM Government.

As the first anniversary of The Coronation approaches, Their Majesties remain deeply grateful for the many kindnesses and good wishes they have received from around the world throughout the joys and challenges of the past year.

@RoyalFamily | 26 April 2024

#this is wonderful news 🥰

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Princess Anne visiting Illumina, for world DNA day, in Cambridge on 25th April 2024

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Princess Anne opening the National House Building Council's Apprenticeship Training Hub in Cambridge, on 25 April 2024.

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A TOAST TO NO RING 🥂

A very happy, newly divorced Princess Anne, toasting with Champagne a day after her divorce, aboard Pride of Teesside yacht, Ocean Village, Southampton, on 22 April 1992.

#iconic #free to marry her man🥰🥰

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Princess Anne as Royal Patron of the National Costwatch Institution, visiting Fleetwood Station on the Outer Promenade in Lancashire, on 16 April 2024.

#smiley princess✨

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12 April 2024 Princess Anne & Zara Tindall: 75 years of History, Badminton Horse Trials © Badminton TV

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Princess Anne visiting Helmshore Textile Mills Museum in Lancashire, on 10 April 2024.

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Princess Anne and Zara in a 75 year Badminton horse trials special ( released on the 12th April)

#oooh this is exciting

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Christmas at Sandringham 1988 (featuring equerry Tim!!)

Just look them being so close to each other aaaaaah!!

#she’s beaming #and we all know why #they’d been together for atleast a year here😭 #ew @ mark #smiley princess✨

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Princess Anne departs from the Easter Mattins Service at St. George's Chapel, on 31 March 2024.

#Anne and her fairfax and favor boots is my new fave duo👢👢

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Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence arriving at the Easter Mattins Service at Windsor Castle on 31 March 2024

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Best of Princess Anne not giving a fuck in Elizabeth at 90 (2016)

#immaculate vibes

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Glorious day at work yesterday🌳🌿⛰️

#so lucky to be surrounded by views like this everyday

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Peter Phillips, who is in Australia as a Patron of ISPS Handa, talking about his mother Princess Anne’s work and how she always makes time in her working week for hometime in an interview with Sky News Australia 🥰

“Certainly in the last few years she is still doing overseas trips and turning them around in 24 hours which is pretty hard on most people, it doesn’t matter what age, but when you’re in your 70s and doing that it’s pretty remarkable. Her mindset is “listen I can go in and do what I need to do and come back” and she really values her home time and obviously values her time with Tim and the family and the dogs and the horses and that is a really important part of the structure of her week.”

Thank you @princessanneftw for sending this clip 🥰 you’re the best

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anyways big fuck you to everyone who found appropriate to harass a family while they were dealing with the news that their young mother and wife was dealing with a serious disease and everyone who thought it was oh so hilarious to make jokes about a woman trying to process a cancer diagnosis and coming up with ridiculous theories about her being abused, in a coma, having a cheating husband, children who are a result of adultery and even that she was in a relationship with a member of the family who died of suicide recently.

Y’all are horrible people.