What’s it like when royalty visits your church? Jamie Price found out this autumn

What’s it like when royalty visits your church? Jamie Price found out this autumn

Wave House Church has welcomed many visitors through its doors over the years, but never a senior royal.

Yet all that changed when the church was invited to host a royal visit in September.

Queen Camilla visited Newquay on 2 September to meet various Cornish charities of which she is patron. Among them was the Cornwall Community Foundation, which backs Wave House’s supported housing project Turnaround House.

“We have 17 residents aged between 16 and 25 and support them into housing, education or work and also help with life skills,” says minister Jamie Price, who was in line to greet the royal visitor as she arrived.

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