Kate Middleton at Wimbledon - 10th July 2021.Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Kate Middletonfans have their wish — she is set to step back out in public.
Kate’s slated to visit an air force base on Wednesday to thank servicemen and women and others who helped in the evacuation of thousands of people from Afghanistan last month.
At the weekend, she and William, both 39, and their children — George, 8,Princess Charlotte, 6, andPrince Louis, 3 — headed to the south east of France to celebrate her brotherJames Middleton’s weddingto financial analyst Alizée Thevenet.
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Kate Middleton and Michael Middleton on July 11.Karwai Tang/WireImage
Kate is set to meet RAF air crew and medics who supported evacuees at Kabul airport, to the civilians and volunteers who established a Repatriation Centre at the base, providing key supplies and support on their arrival into the U.K. Evacuees were given food, clothing, children’s toys, medical support, and childcare and sanitary products whilst their details were processed.
Kate’s visit comesafter it emerged that William stepped into help ensure an Afghan army officer and his family were able to leave Kabul in the exodus. The prince is understood to have known the man — who has not been named — after training alongside him at Sandhurst Military Academy in 2006. And when he heard of the man’s plight amid the anxious residents hoping to get to, and through, Kabul airportbefore the withdrawalof the American and allied forces, William moved to help, and his staff alerted the troops on the ground.
Princess Charlotte, Kate Middleton, Prince George and Prince William.Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty
With the newschool year having startedlast week, Kate and William are now much freer to conduct public duties and have a series of outings planned for the coming weeks — and they are well set to do so, complementing each other perfectly, one of their former aidestells the current PEOPLERoyals.
“They are bringing to the party different means of achieving the whole. He has the experience of knowing where the institution sits and seeing it evolve,” says Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton. “The Duchess brings this pragmatic awareness of what it’s like to be from a decent, down-to-earth family.”
source: people.com
