Kate to host annual Christmas concert after planning meeting

The Princess of Wales will host her annual Christmas carols concert at Westminster Abbey in December, following a planning meeting this week.
Catherine held talks with staff and representatives from the Royal Foundation about the event, which will be fourth time is has been held.
The discussion, which took place at Windsor Castle, was about preparations for the concert and appeared in the Court Circular on Tuesday.
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It is the second time the princess has been mentioned in the official record of the royal family’s engagements since announcing she had finished chemotherapy.
The concert is the first official engagement in Kate’s diary since the 2023 event was held at the abbey.
The Princess of Wales has made just two public appearances this year – at Trooping the Colour and Wimbledon – after announcing in March that she had been diagnosed with cancer.
The Together at Christmas concert has become a royal tradition and is hosted by the Princess of Wales.
Each year she is joined by Prince William and their three children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotteand Prince Louis, five, for the concert which is televised on Christmas Eve.
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Extended members of the royal family regularly support the princess at the concert along with the Middleton clan.
The Court Circular for Tuesday September 24 states: “The Princess of Wales, Joint Patron, the Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales, this morning held a Meeting at Windsor Castle.”
Last week, Kate held a meeting with her Early Years team.
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The inclusion of the Princess of Wales in the Court Circular is a positive sign of her cancer recovery and her gradual return to official duties following treatment.
She has been holding occasional meetings at home throughout the year but they have all been in a private capacity and not part of the official record.
The princess also hopes to attend Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph in London in November.
The Princess of Wales was photographed in public on Sunday attending church at Balmoral with the Prince of Wales and the King and Queen.
It was Kate’s first appearance in public since announcing she had finished chemotherapy, a milestone she revealed through the release of an intimate family video filmed in Norfolk.
In the video, the princess said she was “entering a new phase of recovery” in her “complex, scary and unpredictable” cancer journey.
Kate added she was “looking forward to undertaking a few more public engagements in the coming months”, but that her focus would be on “doing what I can to stay cancer free”.