Queen Camilla toured the site of a new building at Westminster Abbey which aims to transform the welcome offered to millions of visitors. Camilla is patron of the £13 million project to create the King Charles III Sacristy, which will serve as a gathering place on major state occasions and house state-of-the-art welcome, ticketing and security facilities. Work is due to begin early next year and the building will be constructed on the footprint of Henry III’s medieval Great Sacristy built in the 1250s. The Queen was met by the Dean of Westminster, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, who along with the architect behind the project, Ptolemy Dean, showed her some of the archaeological finds already made including dozens of ancient burials.