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<\/p>\nThe Princess of Wales made a remarkable return to royal duties in 2025, completing 68 public engagements after announcing her cancer remission 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
Kate, 43, showed clear signs of recovery, with her workload rising from 13 in 2024 to 68 across 2025.<\/p>\n
This represents a 523 per cent increase as she rebuilt her public schedule following her cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment.<\/p>\n
During a visit to Colchester Hospital in Essex in July, the Princess of Wales spoke openly about the unexpected difficulties of life after treatment.<\/p>\n
The Princess of Wales made a remarkable return to royal duties in 2025, completing 68 public engagements after announcing her cancer remission 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
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“You put on a sort of brave face, stoicism through treatment,” she said. “Treatment’s done, then it’s like, ‘I can crack on, get back to normal’, but actually, the phase afterwards is really, really difficult.”<\/p>\n
Kate described the challenging transition period that follows the end of clinical care.<\/p>\n
“You’re not necessarily under the clinical team any longer, but you’re not able to function normally at home as you perhaps once used to,” she explained.<\/p>\n
The King claimed the title of hardest-working royal in 2025, surpassing his younger sister, the Princess Royal, despite receiving weekly cancer treatment throughout the year.<\/p>\n
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Kate, 43, showed clear signs of recovery, with her workload rising from 13 in 2024 to 68 across 2025.<\/p>\n
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King Charles undertook more official duties than any other member of the family, travelling extensively across Britain while also hosting three major state visits.<\/p>\n
The monarch’s international commitments took him to Italy, Canada and Poland over the course of the year.<\/p>\n
Royal expert Patricia Treble, who analysed data from the Court Circular, highlighted the remarkable nature of his workload given his ongoing health circumstances.<\/p>\n
“Considering he spent the entire year undergoing regular cancer treatment, the King set the pace when it comes to royal duty for the House of Windsor,” she said.<\/p>\n
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King Charles undertook more official duties than any other member of the family, travelling extensively across Britain while also hosting three major state visits.<\/p>\n
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The Royal Family’s combined output climbed substantially in 2025, with the ten working royals recording a 22 per cent rise compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n
Total engagements increased from 2,001 in 2024 to 2,458 over the past twelve months, according to Court Circular records.<\/p>\n
This figure marks the highest annual total since 2022, when twelve working royals, including the late Queen, carried out 2,667 official duties.<\/p>\n
The surge in activity came after a particularly challenging 2024, during which both the King and the Princess of Wales received cancer diagnoses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales made a remarkable return to royal duties in 2025, completing 68 public engagements after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,8346,111,139,69,9855],"class_list":{"0":"post-216482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kate-middleton","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-royal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}