The Order of Service for Royal Maundy is a simple one.

Charles I rarely attended the Royal Maundy service.

Mr Williams has been wearing one at Royal Maundy Services for more than 30 years.

The Queen was on her way to York Minster for the traditional Royal Maundy service.

It begins with the reading of John 13:34, which contains the mandatum from which Royal Maundy evolved.

On a happy note I was privileged to be part of the Royal Maundy service which the Queen holds each year at a different cathedral.

Queen Elizabeth II has been present for all but four Royal Maundy services of her long reign.

The Royal Maundy service concludes with prayers, "God Save the Queen" and the blessing.

In 1969 Selby Abbey became the first parish church to hold the annual service for the distribution of the Royal Maundy.

Today, the only traces of the pedilavium at Royal Maundy are the nosegays and the linen towels worn by several of the officials.

On Thursday 2 April 2015, the Royal Maundy service was held in Sheffield Cathedral.

In no time at all, she was producing the Royal Maundy nosegays herself, which she always did on a voluntary basis, charging only for her materials.

The Queen has presented coins to elderly people who have worked hard for their community at the Royal Maundy Service held in Oxford.

Some she put to one side, the rest she distributed like a sort of Royal Maundy among her PAs. '

The monarch attended the Royal Maundy service, an Easter tradition whereby the sovereign gives out specially minted silver coins to the elderly.

These include the annual Royal Maundy service and the Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.

In the early 20th century, members of the Royal Family sometimes attended the Royal Maundy service-Queen Alexandra twice was present.

At Rochester, Kent, King John becomes the first English monarch recorded as giving gifts of Royal Maundy money to the poor.

The original Maundy Children were four old men, charity recipients, whose sole duty was to attend at the Royal Maundy service wearing linen scarves.

The Royal Maundy ceremony traces its origins to the Last Supper when, as St John recorded, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.

In 1931, Marie Louise was present at Royal Maundy and suggested, after the service, that her cousin King George V make the distributions the following year.

She has been granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment from the Queen as Nosegay maker for Royal Maundy since 2008.

The Queen and Prince Philip will attend the Royal Maundy Service at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford later.

Most Royal Maundy ceremonies in the first part of the century were attended by Princess Helena or by her daughter Princess Marie Louise.

The bells are rung for church service on Sunday mornings and on special occasions including a visit by HM the Queen to distribute the Royal Maundy.