There won’t be an Easter outing with the royal family for Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis this year.
Although King Charles, Queen Camilla and other members of the royal family are set to attend the Easter Matins Service at Windsor Castle on Sunday, April 20, the Prince and Princess of Wales won’t be among them. Instead, Prince William and Princess Kate will spend the weekend with their children at their country home in Norfolk.
Although Kate and William were regulars at the gathering throughout the years, they skipped last year’s outing amid Princess Kate’s cancer news, which was announced just weeks before, and spent the holiday privately. In January, the Princess of Wales announced her cancer was in remission.
Prince William, 42, and Princess Kate, 43, last attended Easter with the royal family in 2023, when Prince Louis, now 6, joined them for the first time. (Prince George, 11, and Princess Charlotte, 9, made their royal Easter debut the previous year together.)
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Prince William and Kate Middleton attend Easter church on April 9, 2023
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The Prince and Princess of Wales once shared that their children previously celebrated Easter with a kid-favorite tradition: an egg hunt!
William also revealed that they usually mark the holiday with plenty of candy during their first-ever full royal engagement via video call amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“There will be a lot of chocolate being eaten here, don’t worry!” he said.
Then Kate turned to her husband with a laugh and quipped, “You keep eating it!”
The Prince and Princess of Wales have been largely out of the public eye in recent weeks, reducing their royal duties while their children are on a school break so they can spend time together as a family.
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During the time off, Prince William and Prince George traveled to Paris, France to support their favorite soccer team, Aston Villa, in their April 9 match against Paris Saint-Germain.
Speaking with TNT Sports, Prince William said, “I thought, it’s been 43 years since anything like this has happened in my generation as a Villa fan, and I want George to experience a night out away from home in a big European competition,” referring to the team’s first European quarterfinal in that timespan. “I hope it’s not 43 years until the next time it happens, but I think those memories are really important to create and to bring him along tonight is a big deal for me.”
The father and son also popped up at the rematch on April 15.
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