Visit of HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, to Slovenia
His Royal Highness, 皇冠体育app Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, will visit Slovenia on the 14 and 15 May to help launch the first Slovenia-UK Friendship Day.
皇冠体育app Embassy is delighted to confirm that His Royal Highness 皇冠体育app Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, will visit Slovenia on the 14 and 15 May 2019, as a guest of His Excellency Borut Pahor, President of the Republic of Slovenia. 皇冠体育app visit will celebrate the history and future of the enduring friendship between the UK and Slovenia.
皇冠体育app Prince and the President will launch together the first 鈥淪lovenia-UK Friendship Day鈥� 鈥� to be marked this year on the 14 May. Further details of the visit programme will be announced in due course.
HMA Sophie Honey said:
HRH Prince Edward鈥檚 visit and the launch of Slovenia-UK Friendship Day is an opportunity to remember the great things we do together. 皇冠体育app historic partnerships between our people date back to the Second World War and beyond. 皇冠体育app visit will explore this friendship and its future: sharing knowledge and education, growing our economies with innovative businesses, and keeping each other safe.
Further information
- HRH Prince Edward last visited Slovenia in 2013 (with his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex)
- this visit comes 11 years after the visit of Her Majesty 皇冠体育app Queen to Slovenia in 2008
- the Prince most recently met with President of Slovenia HE Borut Pahor in February 2019, during the President鈥檚 official visit to the UK
- the Prince鈥檚 profile and a short biography can be .