Princess Kate pulls out of Royal Ascot appearance

Britain’s Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, who is recovering from cancer, has pulled out of attending the Royal Ascot race meeting, her Kensington Palace office said on Wednesday.

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Princess Catherine, also known as Kate, would not be attending Royal Ascot with her husband, Prince William, King Charles III and Queen Camilla as she continued to ‘find the right balance following her battle with cancer’, the domestic Press Association news agency added.

Notably, the famed sporting event in Berkshire in southern England is a key event in the royal calendar.

Meanwhile, the 43-year-old future queen has been making a gradual return to public duties since she announced she was cancer-free in September 2024.

Earlier in March, the mother-of-three had revealed that she was undergoing a course of ‘preventative chemotherapy’ for an undisclosed cancer.

Kate, who in January revealed she was in remission, was said to be disappointed not to be able to attend Royal Ascot, a renowned social and sporting occasion for which the royal family come out in force.

For the unversed, Royal Ascot begins each day of the week with the Royal Procession, a historic tradition in which the monarch and various accompanying members of the royal family arrive along the track in horse-drawn carriages. They then watch the racing from the exclusive Royal Enclosure.

The enclosure operates a strict dress code of top hats and morning coats – jackets with a long ‘tail’ – for men and hats and knee-length or longer dresses or skirts for women.

The annual five-day race meeting was said to be the late Queen Elizabeth II’s favourite sporting event.

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