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King Charles III at Space and Defence Campus Amid Royal Oxfordshire Tour

He also inspected satellite testing and met space partners as the new gateway aims to link government, academia and industry.

  • On Friday, King Charles III officially opened the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford, a new facility integrating seven academic faculties and cultural performance spaces.
  • Blackstone Stephen Schwarzman provided a £185 million donation to fund the project, which includes a 500-seat concert hall and a 250-seat flexible theatre designed for interdisciplinary humanities research.
  • Oxford University Chancellor William Hague accompanied the King during the tour, where the monarch viewed an autograph manuscript by Johann Sebastian Bach and Hague stated the investment "represents an enormous vote of confidence in the humanities."
  • His Majesty then travelled to the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire to inspect space facilities and officially launch the new UK Space and Defence Gateway, a hub for national and global industry collaboration.
  • The King met British astronaut Major Tim Peake at the site, where the Sustainable Markets Initiative announced a partnership with Harwell Campus to advance the Astra Carta framework for sustainable space practices.
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Oxford Mail broke the news in Oxford, United Kingdom on Friday, July 10, 2026.
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