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Whatever our individual feelings about the monarchy, it seems appropriate following the sad departure of the Queen and the arrival of the new King to include a few pictures illustrating how they (and other members of the Royal Family) have supported waterway restoration in recent years. They show the late Queen at the Kelpies for the naming of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal forming the new eastern approach to the Forth & Clyde; the new Queen Consort taking the tiller of the Wilts & Berks Canal Trust’s tripboat at an event where she also cut the first sod of the Melksham bypass canal; and the new King opening Wallbridge Lower Lock on the Cotswold Canals.