Kate Middleton Sends Letter With ‘Apologies’ For Lacking Army Occasion

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LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, wished the Irish Guards good luck on their ultimate rehearsal Saturday earlier than the Trooping of the Colour parade in honor of the king’s birthday.

Kate, who has been recovering from most cancers, apologized for not being there in her capability because the guards’ honorary colonel.

“Being your colonel remains a great honor and I am very sorry that I’m unable to take the salute at this year’s Colonel’s Review,” she wrote within the letter shared by the Irish Guards on the social media platform X. “Please pass my apologies to the whole regiment, however I do hope that I am able to represent you all once again very soon.”

Catherine, Princess of Wales, in January 2023.

Daniel Leal/Pool Picture through AP

The assessment is a costume rehearsal for the annual navy parade held every June to mark the monarch’s official birthday. King Charles III will oversee the ceremony June 15.

It’s nonetheless unclear if Kate will attend the ceremony subsequent week. She’s been handled for an unspecified sort of most cancers she introduced in March after hypothesis proliferated on social media about her wellbeing as a result of she had not been seen in public for a number of months. She has revealed few particulars about her sickness or therapy.

The king has eased again into public duties whereas persevering with to bear his personal therapy for most cancers. He attended commemorations this week for the eightieth anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944.

Trooping the Colour is a 460-year outdated custom during which troops in full costume uniform parade previous the king with their ceremonial flag, also called their “color.”

Charles is prone to journey to the occasion by carriage with Queen Camilla and is predicted to observe the ceremony seated on a dais, somewhat than on horseback as he did final yr.

The Irish Guards stated they had been touched by the letter from Kate and wished her nicely in her restoration.

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