The King's Birthday Reception 2025

This annual event is one of the biggest in the Government House calendar with 500 invited guests, including local VIP's, Island Community representatives, Island Services, members of the Royal Court and charities, Youth organisations and schools, and also people who His Excellency and Mrs Cripwell have met throughout the year at various events they have attended. 

It is an opportunity for His Excellency to present and congratulate those who have received honours in the King's Birthday Honours list and who will have been keeping that a secret from family and friends for a few weeks since they were told. And it is the Lieutenant-Governor's opportunity to say thank you to so many of the people who keep the island running, often behind the scenes and many without payment but hopefully not without thanks and a feeling of that wonderful Guernsey community spirit.