Princess Kate attended this year's Royal British Legion Remembrance Day at the Royal Albert Hall with members of the Royal Family.

On Saturday, November 9, Princess Kate appeared with her husband, Prince William. King Charles, Prince Edward, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, also attended.

Queen Camilla was notably absent from the festivities. Earlier in the week, Buckingham Palace announced that the queen would miss the festivities due to a chest infection.

“To ensure a full recovery from her seasonal chest infection and to protect others from potential danger, and in accordance with medical advice, Her Majesty the Queen will not attend this weekend's memorial service,” a statement from the Palace said.

“While this is a great disappointment to the Queen, she will celebrate this occasion in private at home and hopes to return to her official duties early next week.”

This year's festival will showcase “the tremendous contributions of the World War II generation” and will be held in the wake of the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024, the Palace announced. [2024 marks 25 years since the deployment of NATO peacekeepers to Kosovo and 10 years since the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, so the event will also commemorate more recent military service,” the statement continued.

King Charles was announced as patron of the Royal British Legion earlier this year.

Princess Kate's attendance underscores her slow but steady return to full-time royal duties after completing preventive chemotherapy for a yet-to-be-disclosed type of cancer.

Attendance at Saturday's festival will be the princess's third major public event of 2024, following her participation in Trooping the Colour in June and the Wimbledon men's final in July.

Princess Kate also made headlines when she met privately with teenage cancer patient Liz Hutton; in October, she and her husband, Prince William, met with paramedics and the family of three children who were tragically stabbed while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class. met with the family.