Princess Kate and the Royal Family have been celebrated for their “show of unity” as they gathered for a Buckingham Palace garden party.
The Princess of Wales hosted the event alongside her husband Prince William, the first of its kind she attended since May 2023, following a period of reduced royal duties whilst she underwent cancer treatment last year.
The royal couple stepped up after King Charles and Queen Camilla were unable to attend a different historic engagement earlier in the day.
However, other members of the Royal Family joined William and Kate at the soiree including Princess Eugenie, the Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh as well as Zara Tindall, Princess Anne’s daughter.
Princess Kate and the royals have been celebrated for their latest show of unity at Buckingham Palace
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Longtime allies of King Charles, Prince Richard, the Duke of Gloucester, Birgitte, the Duchess of Gloucester, were also present at the Palace on Tuesday.
Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams praised the gathering, explaining it was “highly significant to see so many members of the royal family at the Garden Party”.
“A show of unity is especially important when an institution, the most significant for Britain's projection of soft power, faces challenges,” he told The Express.
The challenges in question were numerous in what Fitzwilliams described as a “testing time” for the Royal Family.
Other royals, including Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall, supported Kate and William at the event
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The expert highlighted King Charles continued cancer treatment, Kate’s own previous health battle and “resumed hostilities” from Harry and Meghan.
Fitzwilliams was referring to a recent bombshell interview undertaken by Prince Harry with the BBC after suffering a legal defeat in the UK.
Following his failed attempt to have his taxpayer funded security detail reinstated, the Duke of Sussex suggested the King "won't speak to me because of this security stuff".
Harry also explosively claimed that he did “not know how much longer my father has" - in reference to Charles’ ongoing cancer treatment.
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, and her husband Prince Edward also joined the other royals
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At the party, Kate was seen wearing a primrose yellow dress by Emilia Wickstead as she greeted people at the soiree.
She coupled her outfit with a Philip Treacy fascinator hat, also in a pale yellow.
The Princess of Wales also chose a deeply sentimental accessory - the diamond Robinson Pelham earrings she wore on her wedding day in April 2011.
The glittering earrings, a custom gift from her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, feature oak leaves with a pear-cut diamond drop and a suspended diamond acorn at the centre.
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Kate met with the family of late teenage photographer Liz Hatton, joined the Princess at Windsor Castle in October last year
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Kate and William met with guests from several of their patronages, passion projects and military affiliations at the engagement.
They were pictures speaking with family of the late teenage photographer Liz Hatton, who met Princess Kate at Windsor Castle in October last year and died tragically of a rare form of cancer on November 27, 2024.
Another notable guest was 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Steven Frank.
The Princess of Wales had previously photographed Frank in 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust.
Among the groups represented was the royal couple's homeless charity Homewards, one of Kate’s patron non-profit's Action for Children and Welsh children’s hospice Ty Hafan.
Also attending will be tenants from across the Duchy of Cornwall, the private estate that provides an income for the heir to the British throne.
