All being well, the third calendar year of King Charles III’s reign will finish with the usual scheduled programming: a family parade to church on Christmas Day, the monarch’s pre-recorded speech broadcast at 3 o’clock and, if they’re keeping up Queen Elizabeth’s traditions, a game of “lucky dip” on New Year’s Eve, where everyone reaches into a tub and pulls out predictions for the year to come.

And while it’s been a less chaotic and frightening year for the Royal Family than 2024 — a fever-dream of serious illness for two of its top figures, made more dramatic by absurd internet conspiracies — 2025 has been eventful in its own way. From the scandalous: a disgraced prince stripped of all his titles; to the celebratory: the Princess of Wales’s remission (and the King’s cancer now requiring reduced treatment, announced this month); to the only-in-Hollywood: a duchess fronting a Netflix show for the first time in royal history, here are the seven biggest moments that marked 2025 for the Royal Family.