{"id":259886,"date":"2025-11-13T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T05:39:07","slug":"princess-of-waless-christmas-service-to-star-actors-including-kate-winslet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/259886\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess of Wales’s Christmas service to star actors including Kate Winslet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Christmas, Catherine similarly focused on love, and the importance of giving and receiving empathy, following her cancer diagnosis earlier in the year. <\/p>\n

She spoke of her relief<\/a> at completing her course of chemotherapy in September 2024, and revealed this year in January that she is in remission from cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she surprised guests with her piano-playing skills<\/a> alongside musician Tom Walker in a clip shown at the event, which was staged for people who supported their communities during the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

Guests at the event will be people who have been nominated by lord-lieutenants across the UK and charities linked to the royal family. Among them will also be guests who have been invited after having shown love and kindness this year.<\/p>\n

As well as the readings by the British acting stars, carols will be sung by the Westminster Abbey choir, alongside musical performances.<\/p>\n

A festive display based on the importance of nature in our lives, created by horticulturist Jamie Butterworth, will feature at the event. <\/p>\n

The Royal Horticultural Society is also set to donate wreaths made by their ambassadors and schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

Across the UK, 15 community carol services on the same theme of love and togetherness will also take place, including in a community farm in Gwent and an arts centre in Newbury.<\/p>\n

The Westminster Abbey service will air on ITV1 and ITVX on Christmas Eve and again on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last Christmas, Catherine similarly focused on love, and the importance of giving and receiving empathy, following her cancer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-259886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}