As the United Kingdom prepares to celebrate the memory of its fallen soldiers, particularly during the First World War, the event on Sunday, November 10 will mark the return of Princess Kate Middleton’s public engagements alongside her husband, the Prince William. But the ceremonies take place in the absence of another important woman in the royal family, Camilla Parker Bowles. The queen consort suffers from a lung infection.
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The British were awaiting a royal meeting with the return of Kate Middleton, after eight months of fight against cancer. Because since the beginning of September 2024, his chemotherapy has ended. She therefore went, Saturday November 9 in the afternoon, with her husband William as well as the king Charles IIIat the Royal Albert Hall in London for three hours of remembrance and music in memory of the soldiers who fell for the United Kingdomreports our regional correspondent, Thomas Harms.
Kate Middleton had already appeared in public at the beginning of October during a meeting with the rescuers who intervened after a knife attack which shook the country, as well as xenophobic riots which resulted from this, in Southport.
The annual event holds an important place in British tradition. For several weeks, all the country’s leaders have worn a poppy on their clothes, a symbol of the memory of the Great War (1914-1918) and the hope of peace. Sunday’s memorial ceremony will again be held in the presence of the king and the princely couple, in front of the London Cenotaph, the First World War memorial, erected in 1920.
At Saturday’s memorial event, a special remembrance was for service members killed during World War II, as well as deployments in Afghanistan and at Kosovo. But if Kate was present, Camilla stayed at the palace. According to Buckingham Palace, there is no reason to be alarmed: the 77-year-old queen consort is the victim of a temporary and seasonal illness, but highly contagious. According to the press release, she wanted to minimize the risk of transmitting her lung infection to elderly veterans present at the ceremonies. Already on Thursday, the queen had not participated in a reception in honor of Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Not to mentionannus horribilisPrince William still indicated that it was “ probably the most difficult year of [s]for life “. The difficult and brutal ordeals began after the unexpected cancer diagnoses of his wife and his father, who were still undergoing treatment.