Kate Middleton to attend Wimbledon men’s final in rare public appearance, confirms Kensington Palace

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, is all set to make a rare public appearance on Sunday amid ongoing cancer treatment. Her Kensington Palace office announced on Saturday that Middleton will present the winning trophy at the men’s tennis single’s final of the Wimbledon Championships in London.

“The Princess of Wales, Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will attend the Gentlemen's Singles Final of The Championships, Wimbledon on Sunday 14th July,” Kensington Palace said in a statement.

Britain's princess Middleton, herself a tennis player, will attend the final of the tournament on Sunday in her role as Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club since 2016.

She will present the Grand Slam trophy to either Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz.

If it happens, this will only be the second official public appearance since Kate Middleton revealed she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy following a cancer diagnosis.

Her first appearance was when she attended King Charles III’s annual birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour, last monh. There, she joined her father-in-law, husband Prince William, and their three children—Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis—on the Buckingham Palace balcony for the customary photograph.

Ahead of the appearance in early June, she issued a statement to stress that she plans to take things slow to give her body time to heal.

She said at the time: “As anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days,” she said, adding her treatment is ongoing and will be for a few more months.

"I am learning how to be patient, especially with uncertainty. Taking each day as it comes, listening to my body, and allowing myself to take this much-needed time to heal."

While she is on the tennis court in London, Prince William will be flying to Berlin to watch England take on Spain in the finals of Euro 2024 in Germany. In his role as President of the Football Association (FA), the 42-year-old Prince of Wales has been cheering the England football team, known as the Three Lions, through the tournament in which they made it to their first Euros final on foreign soil earlier this week.

(With inputs from PTI)