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Their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla Visit Neasden Temple, London, UK

29 Oct 2025

HM The King meeting Sanjay Kara, a trustee for BAPS UK and the project lead for BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir, Paris, who introduced His Majesty to others involved with the BAPS Mandir Project in Paris

HM The King speaking with HE Vikram Doraiswami, the High Commissioner of India to the UK

HM The King greeting Sébastien Bidaud, Deputy Head of Mission for the French Embassy in the UK

HM The Queen greeting HE Vikram Doraiswami, the High Commissioner of India to the UK

HM The King engaging with Yann Dubosc, the Mayor of Bussy-Saint-Georges in Paris, France, where BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir is being constructed

HM The King meeting Guillaume Le Réveillé, Deputy Director of VINCI Construction, France

HM The King meeting Fabien Cagnolari, Director of Operations for VINCI Construction, France

HM The King meeting Andrew Hobson, Chairman of Arte Charpentier Architects, France

HM The King meeting Nahla Jajo-Legrand, Partner of Arte Charpentier Architects, France

HM The King greeting Georges Souaid, Lead Architect at Arte Charpentier on the BAPS Paris Mandir Project

HM The King speaking with Sylvéric Laumond, CEO of H. Chevalier, the stone engineers for the BAPS mandir in Paris

Raphaël Wattrisse, Construction Manager for H. Chevalier, showing HM The King a sample piece of carved Indian sandstone that will be used in the Mandir in Paris

HM The King meeting Jean-Christophe Gomes , Managing Director of GS Construction, France

HM The King meeting Shashi Vekaria, Chairman & Co-founder of Vascroft Contractors, UK

HM The King engaging with Shailesh Bhavsar, President of BAPS France

HM The King meeting Dr Mayank Shah, trustee for BAPS UK, who then introduced His Majesty to volunteers and leaders of some of BAPS's charity and community partners for its social impact work

HM The King greeting Professor Sejal Saglani, BAPS volunteer in healthcare and consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital

HM The King meeting Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FRS, Chief Clinician for Cancer Research UK, a charity partner for BAPS’s healthcare work

HM The King meeting David Gibbs, Chairman of Cancer with Children UK, a recent partner and beneficiary of BAPS’s annual 10K Charity Challenge

HM The King engaging with Dr Gerry Murphy, Chair of Tesco, who partners with Neasden Temple to distribute food to the vulnerable during Diwali each year

HM The King meeting Rami Baitiéh, CEO of Morrisons, another food distribution partner with BAPS

HM The King meeting Tanya Mitchell, Chief Income Generation & Marketing Officer for The Felix Project, a London-based charity that redistributes surplus food to alleviate hunger for the vulnerable and a longstanding partner with BAPS

HM The King speaking with Minesh Patel, Training Standards Captain for British Airways, who supported BAPS’s relief efforts in India and Nepal during the Covid-19 pandemic, Gujarat earthquake, and other humanitarian campaigns

HM The Queen interacting with Sushma Jansari, Curator of the South Asian Collection at the British Museum. She had worked with the Mandir as a community partner for the recent Ancient India exhibition. (Learn more here.)

HM The Queen speaking with Elin Gustafsson, Deputy Market Manager at IKEA Wembley, a neighbour and community partner with Neasden Temple

HM The Queen meeting Reena Patel, a BAPS volunteer

HM The Queen meeting Shreeya Patel, a BAPS volunteer

HM The Queen greeting Charlie Marshall, Head of Communications & Marketing at Women of the World Foundation, for which Queen Camilla is the President and a charity partner with BAPS

HM The Queen meets Krishna Pujara, CEO of Saheli, a women's charity helping empower women to make informed decisions and a charity partner with BAPS

HM The Queen meeting BAPS volunteers Karuna Patel and Nikita Odedra