Watch: Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Maundy Service

The Queen hands out Maundy Money in 2019. Image from royal.uk

Since succeeding to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has hardly missed attending the Royal Maundy service, held every Maundy Thursday of each year. In fact, it was the Maundy service of 1952, which was The Queen's first-ever public engagement as sovereign. Since then, she has distributed Maundy money to individuals who are chosen for service to their churches or communities, on the recommendation of clergymen of various Christian denominations. The Queen has also started a new tradition of travelling to various cathedrals or abbeys to give gifts on this occasion. She has since visited every Anglican Cathedral in England for the Maundy Service. 

Relive the Royal Maundy Service of the past with these compilation of video clips: 

 1952 

The Queen attends her first Royal Maundy Service

 

 1953 

The Queen breaks with tradition and distributes Maundy Money at St. Paul's Cathedral, London.  

 1955 

Maundy Sevice at Southwark Cathedral, London.  

 1956 

Maundy Service at Westminster Abbey, London.  

 1957 

The Royal Maundy at St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire  

 1958 

The Royal Maundy at Westminster Abbey. 1963

 Royal Maundy at Chelmsford Cathedral  

 1965 

Maundy Money Ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent.  

 1969 

Royal Maundy Service at Selby Abbey, North Yorkshire    

 1982 

The distribution of the Royal Maundy at the Cathedral Church of St David, Pembrokeshire.  1986 

The Queen at Chichester Cathedral for Maundy Service.  

 1988 

Royal Maundy at Lichfield Cathedral.  

 1998 

Royal Maundy at Lichfield Cathedral.  

 2010 

Queen Elizabeth II visits Derby Cathedral for the Maundy Service  

 2011 

Royal Maundy Service at Westminster Abbey.  2012 

Queen Elizabeth at York Minster for Maundy Service  

 2013 

The Queen hands out Maundy money at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford.  

 2015 

Royal Maundy Service at Sheffield Cathedral.  

 2017 

Maundy Service at Leicester Cathedral.  

 2018 

The Queen attends Maundy Service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. 2019

 The Queen, accompanied by Princes Eugenie of York, attends the annual Royal Maundy Service at St George's Chapel in Windsor.  

 2022 

Maundy Service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The Queen missed the service and was represented by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.