{"id":518329,"date":"2026-03-04T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:59:15","slug":"princess-kate-to-attend-major-royal-event-with-king-charles-in-days-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518329\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate to attend major royal event with King Charles in days | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Princess of Wales<\/a> will be making a grand appearance in just days, it has been announced. Princess Catherine will join her husband, the Prince of Wales, King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla, the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester next Monday, March 9, to celebrate Commonwealth Day 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The annual event with around 1,800 guests will take place at Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace has announced. The March 9 service will also include an address from Royal Commonwealth Society ambassador Geri Halliwell-Horner, a reflection from Oti Mabuse and a poem from Selina Tusitala Marsh, the inaugural Commonwealth Poet Laureate.<\/p>\n

As head of the Commonwealth, Charles issues an annual message to the 56 member-nations, which will hold their biennial Commonwealth meeting this year during the first week of November in the capital of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the meeting’s theme – accelerating partnerships and investment for a prosperous commonwealth – the service will celebrate collaboration as the defining strength of the modern family of nations.<\/p>\n

Among the congregation will be Commonwealth high commissioners, Government representatives, young people and leading voices from the creative community.<\/p>\n

The service will feature landmark artistic moments, including the world premiere of the Commonwealth Symphony, composed by Rekesh Chauhan.<\/p>\n

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It will also include a bespoke dance collaboration between the Royal Ballet School and Sapnay Entertainments, uniting classical ballet and Bollywood in a powerful expression of cross-cultural partnership.<\/p>\n

Other performers include a Scottish ceilidh band, the Melodians Steel Orchestra and further special reflections and readings from guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales will be making a grand appearance in just days, it has been announced. Princess…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,258864,134,13203,104556,2546,258865,100920,258862,258863,104550,104551,104549,135337],"class_list":["post-518329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-commonwealth-day","tag-entertainment","tag-kate-middleton","tag-kate-middleton-news","tag-king-charles","tag-king-charles-news","tag-princess-kate","tag-princess-kate-commonwealth","tag-princess-kate-commonwealth-day","tag-princess-kate-latest","tag-princess-kate-latest-news","tag-princess-kate-news","tag-william-and-kate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}