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  • New Royal Parks Chair appointed

    The Royal Parks CEO, Andrew Scattergood CBE, has informed the Friends that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Dr Linda Yueh CBE as the new Chair of The Royal Parks. Dr Yueh has been appointed on a term of four years, starting on 1 March 2026.

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“It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London – that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically – by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.”

Dodie Smith, from ‘I capture the castle’

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