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Kate Middleton is planning an annual Christmas carol service after completing chemotherapy

Kate Middleton is in great spirits after completing chemotherapy.

The 42-year-old princess is expected to host her annual Christmas carol service in December despite battling cancer since the start of the year, People confirmed on Wednesday.

Middleton reportedly held a meeting with members of her team from Kensington Palace and the Royal Foundation at Windsor Castle on Tuesday to begin planning the concert, titled “Together at Christmas.”

Kate Middleton at her carol service at Westminster Abbey on December 8, 2023. Getty Images

The meeting was detailed in the court circular, a formal record of the royal family’s duties, and published by the British newspaper The Times.

The entry read: “The Princess of Wales, joint patron of the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, held a meeting at Windsor Castle this morning.”

Middleton, her husband Prince William and their children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, are all expected to attend this year’s carol service.

Prince William and Kate Middleton at the Christmas carol service in 2021. Getty Images
Kate Middleton with Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at “Together at Christmas” in 2023. Getty Images
Kate Middleton with her three children at her 2023 Christmas carol service. Getty Images

The annual event, which began in 2021, is held at Westminster Abbey and will be broadcast on ITV on Christmas Eve.

The party highlights charities important to Middleton and William, 42.

Last year, other members of the company came to the concert to support the Prince and Princess of Wales, including the two daughters of Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips, Savannah and Isla, as well as Princess Beatrice and her stepson Christopher Woolf.

Kate Middleton with Princess Charlotte and Prince George at the 2023 Christmas service. Getty Images

Middleton recently returned to work after completing preventative chemotherapy for cancer.

“I can’t tell you what a relief it is to finally have completed my chemotherapy treatment,” she wrote in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) on September 9.

Kate Middleton announced she finished chemotherapy on September 9th. The Prince and Princess of Wales/X

“Now my focus is on doing what I can to stay cancer-free. Although I have completed chemotherapy, my road to healing and full recovery is long and I must continue to take each day as it comes.”

“Despite everything that has happened so far, I enter this new phase of recovery with a new sense of hope and appreciation for life,” the king added.

Days after the announcement, Middleton returned to her professional duties and met with the Early Years organization, which aims to give children a better start in the first five years of their lives.

Kate Middleton with her husband and children. via REUTERS
Kate Middleton and Prince William. The Prince and Princess of Wales/X

Health permitting, Middleton plans to take on “a handful” of roles in the coming months, according to the Times.

She made her first public appearance after completing chemotherapy on September 22nd at a church near her and William’s Balmoral estate in Scotland. The couple was joined by King Charles III, who was also suffering from cancer. and Queen Camilla.

Middleton shocked the world by revealing she had cancer in March, after months of speculation about why she had not been seen in public.

Kate Middleton at Sandringham Church on Christmas Day 2023. Samir Hussein/WireImage

She was diagnosed with cancer after undergoing major abdominal surgery at the London Clinic in January.

Middleton spent months in hiding after the diagnosis before making a few public appearances that signaled she was on the mend. She attended the Trooping of the Color ceremony on June 15, followed by the Wimbledon Gentleman’s Singles Finals a month later.

By Jasper

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