The Earl of Wessex will visit Angus during a trip to Tayside on Tuesday.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Angus Georgiana Osborne, Angus Provost Ronnie Proctor and Chief Executive Margo Williamson will welcome the Earl of Wessex at Brechin Community Campus and the William Lamb Studio in Montrose.
The Earl’s visit to Brechin will celebrate the participation and achievement of young people from across Angus in the Duke of Edinburgh Award and recognise the contribution made by volunteers.
Across Angus there are nine DofE award units and over the past year 139 Bronze, 67 Silver and 19 Gold awards have been achieved by young people in the county.
To further support the DofE Award in Angus, funding from the DofE ‘Diamond Fund’ has been allocated to support a temporary Centre Support Officer post which will enable further development of the Awards.
The Earl will visit Montrose to mark the 40th anniversary of the formation of The Friends of The William Lamb Studio.
The visit will also launch a number of events to celebrate this milestone during the year, beginning with the unveiling of a new bronze cast of Lamb’s “Aberdeenshire Carrier” produced by the Friends and to be presented to the studio.
William Lamb was born in Montrose in 1893 and became Scotland’s finest portrait sculptor during the 20th century, exhibiting works in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Royal Academy in London and the Paris Salon from 1925.
He was a renowned portrait sculptor, producing three Royal heads – HRH The Duchess of York and the Princesses, HRH Princess Elizabeth and HRH Princess Margaret.
These Royal heads are in Clarence House, and the copies here were kept by Lamb.
The Friends work closely with Angus Council, who fund the studio and its collections through Montrose Common Good Fund.
A major project has been the casting in bronze of the sculptures in plaster which Lamb left to Montrose.
No fewer than six of these are now situated in various parts of Montrose, and the last, a plasticine figure of an Aberdeenshire carrier has this year been cast in bronze by the Friends.
Two copies have been made, one being presented to Montrose Academy to be known as The William Lamb Prize awarded annually to younger pupils at the town’s secondary school.
The other is to be unveiled by the Earl during his visit and presented to the William Lamb Studio.
The Earl will also visit Perth Theatre on Tuesday and rebury a time capsule from 1899 which was uncovered during the most recent work.
The people of Dunkeld will also get a chance to see the royal visitor as he helps celebrate the 450th anniversary of The Royal School of Dunkeld.
As part of the visit to the school, the Earl will unveil the school’s Coat of Arms Letter Patent, granted in the first year of the reign of the Queen and newly restored by the Court of the Lord Lyon. He will also visit the Royal School of Dunkeld garden party, which will include a celebration of school history by the children.
After visiting Dunkeld, the Earl of Wessex will make his way to Willowgate Activity Centre, near Friarton Bridge, where he will name a Tay River skiff built by Duke of Edinburgh Award participants and school children from Perth High School, supported by the Tay Landscape Partnership.
