Princess of Wales to attend Remembrance events

The Princess of Wales will attend Remembrance events in London at the weekend, Buckingham Palace has said.

She will attend both the Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening.

The princess has been gradually returning to public royal duties following her cancer treatment.

The Queen’s attendance will be subject to medical advice nearer the time, the Palace added. She has been unwell with a chest infection and pulled out of engagements earlier this week.

The announcement comes after the Prince of Wales described the past year as the “hardest year” of his life following both his wife and his father being diagnosed with cancer.

“I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father, for handling the things that they have done,” he told reporters at the end of his visit to South Africa.

“But from a personal family point of view, it’s been brutal.”

Buckingham Palace revealed the King had cancer in February and would begin treatment. Just six weeks later it was announced the Princess of Wales was undergoing chemotherapy after a cancer diagnosis.

The King has since returned to public duties and Catherine has finished chemotherapy treatment.

The Remembrance events will be the first time Catherine has carried out two consecutive days of public official engagements since the start of the year.

In a video released in September, she said she was “looking forward to being back at work and undertaking a few more public engagements in the coming months”.