Kate Middleton (Reading, United Kingdom, 42 years old) has made an unexpected public appearance this Thursday, October 10. It was with her husband, Prince William (42 years old), during a visit to the English town of Southport, where they held a private meeting with families mourning the death of three children, aged six, seven and nine. , who were murdered in a multiple stabbing last July, during a children’s dance event surrounding the singer Taylor Swift – a 17-year-old boy was arrested at the scene and has been charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted of murder.
This was the Princess of Wales’s first official public engagement since she announced that she had finished her chemotherapy treatment on September 9. According to royal sources, Kate Middleton has decided to join her husband at the last minute – and without it being stated in his agenda – to show her “support, empathy and compassion for the local community”, as well as to demonstrate “that she had not been forgotten.” ”.
The couple have spoken to police emergency services and health services who assisted at the crime scene during the devastating knife attack in the north-west English coastal town. Still, the royal visit to Southport had been planned as a low-key event, so that she could spend private time with the families of the three children who were murdered and with the dance teacher who was present during the attack. They did not want to draw too much media attention out of respect for those involved. The surprise addition of the wife of the heir to the British throne, however, has sparked interest in the visit, as it is one of the few public appearances she has made this year since revealing her cancer diagnosis in March 2024.
Now that she has finished chemotherapy, the Princess of Wales has begun to gradually return to work. On September 18, for example, she held her first official meeting in nine months at Windsor Castle with members of the Royal Early Childhood Foundation. The discreet appointment marked an important step forward in his recovery just a week after announcing that he had finished chemotherapy, although that meeting was held behind closed doors and no photographs were revealed. On October 2, he also reappeared at an event held at Windsor Castle and organized together with the NGO London Air Ambulance Charity, to which only Prince William was originally scheduled to attend and, although he was once again behind closed doors, they did leave a record on their Instagram profile. But there were no media photos in either case. For this reason, the British press is already describing this new visit as the most important moment so far in his return to royal duties. Still, Kate Middleton has spoken of having “good days and bad days” and Kensington Palace has already warned that her appearances will have to be flexible and subject to last-minute changes. He is, for example, expected to organize his traditional carol concert at Westminster Abbey in December.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have campaigned on the importance of talking openly about mental health problems in the past and, in that sense, their event this Thursday included conversations with professionals in this area who also supported mental health services. emergency that had faced the disturbing scenes of this crime in which three children died – the princes of Wales have spent half an hour privately with each of the families – and another 10 people were injured. Additionally, prior to their visit, the royal couple had already made a donation, through their charity, to a fundraiser to help provide physical and psychological help to police and ambulance staff who were caught in the attack and the riots that followed.
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