The ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall and then the visit to the Cenotaph in London. The Remembrance Day commemorations, where the British fallen and the end of the First World War are remembered, mark the return of Princess Kate to her royal engagements, following the end of the chemotherapy cycle she underwent following her cancer diagnosis.
At the Royal Albert Hall of London, the princess smiled and applauded alongside her husband Prince William in the box reserved for the royal family. The King, still undergoing treatment for cancer, also participated in the event, one of the most important dates in the royal calendar together with the most solemn ceremony at the Cenotaph war memorial. Only absent: the Queen Camilla recovering from a lung infection.
The presence of the princess and the King, united by the battle against the disease, is a sign that the royal family is slowly returning to normality after a difficult year.
“By participating in the commemoration of the war dead, they are showing us respect, as we have shown them by serving,” comments Victor Needham-Crofton, 91, an Army veteran who served during the 1956 Suez Crisis and thereafter in Kenya.
Carlo was diagnosed with a form of cancer in February, which forced him to stay away from public appearances for two months while he focused on his treatment and recovery. Just a few weeks later, Kate announced her own cancer diagnosis, which kept her out for much of the year while she underwent chemotherapy.
Kate, who did hers first public appearance following his diagnosis during the monarch’s birthday parade in June, he is slowly returning to public duties.
The terrible year of William
Prince William, Kate’s husband and heir to the throne, reflected this week on the strain the cancer scare has placed on the royal family. “I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father, for handling things the way they did,” he told reporters during his four-day trip to South Africa.
“But from the family’s personal perspective, it was, yeah, it was brutal.”
“It was the most difficult year of my life,” said the heir to the throne who had to deal with the double diagnosis of cancer in the royal family, trying to “keep everything on track” in a period dominated by worries.
