Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, appeared in public at the Wimbledon tennis tournament on Sunday. (Photo: Reuters)
Kate Middleton, Britain’s Princess of Wales, attended the Wimbledon men’s final, which is only her second public appearance this year after revealing her battle with cancer.
Kate Middleton, Britain’s Princess of Wales, made a rare public appearance at the Wimbledon’s men’s final on Sunday. This marks the only second public appearance this year of Kate, who is undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer.
Kate was accompanied by her daughter, Princess Charlotte, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. She will also be presenting the trophy to the winner of the men’s final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.
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The Princess of Wales was greeted by a standing ovation from the crowd as she took her seat in the Royal Box before the start of the match.
Kate and Princess Charlotte went to a terrace at the club that is connected to the main stadium by a pedestrian walkway and greeted several people, including 2021 US Open champion Emma Raducanu and other young British tennis players.
Since 2016, Kate Middleton has been the patron of the All England Club, which hosts Wimbledon each year. Her ceremonial duties include handing out the winner’s trophies after the singles finals. She was not present on Saturday to present the women’s singles title after the match between Barbora Krejcikova and Jasmine Paolini.
After months of speculation about her health and whereabouts, Kate Middleton revealed in March this year that she had cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy. Her lone public appearance since then was attending last month’s birthday parade for King Charles III.
Before that event, she released a statement saying she was “making good progress” but still had “good days and bad days”.
Her husband and heir to the British throne, Prince William, has been a regular at Wimbledon finals but was not going to be there Sunday. Instead, he planned to go watch England face Spain in the final of the men’s soccer European Championship in Germany.
