Kate, Princess of Wales, is at Wimbledon in a rare public appearance

LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, handed Carlos Alcaraz the champion’s trophy after the Wimbledon males’s last at the All England Membership on Sunday in solely her second public look since saying she was identified with most cancers.

Kate, spouse of inheritor to the throne Prince William, was greeted by a standing ovation when she arrived within the Royal Field at Centre Courtroom to observe Alcaraz’s victory over Novak Djokovic. After leaving the court docket following the trophy ceremony, the princess and Alcaraz had a dialog in a room contained in the event’s important stadium.

“You performed so effectively,” Kate advised him. “Benefit from the win.”

Earlier, Kate — carrying a purple gown, certainly one of Wimbledon’s official colours — went from the stands right down to the enjoying floor to current the trophies, a part of her duties as patron of the All England Membership, which hosts the annual event.

She shook arms with among the ball children who labored on the event, then exchanged phrases with each gamers and applauded for Alcaraz after giving him the winner’s trophy for the second 12 months in a row.

“It was, after all, a privilege to be in her presence once more. I’ve stated to her that it is rather good to see her in good well being; she appears to be in good well being,” Djokovic stated at his postmatch information convention. “That’s clearly very optimistic information for everybody on this nation, but additionally for Wimbledon.”

Kate and her 9-year-old daughter, Princess Charlotte, bought to the positioning of the grass-court Grand Slam event in southwest London in a motorcade a few half-hour earlier than the ultimate was scheduled to start. They went to a terrace on the membership that’s related to the principle stadium by a pedestrian walkway and greeted a number of folks, together with 2021 U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu and different younger British tennis gamers.

Additionally within the Royal Field for the ultimate had been Kate’s sister, Pippa Matthews, actors Tom Cruise and Benedict Cumberbatch and several other previous Wimbledon champions, together with Rod Laver, Andre Agassi and Stefan Edberg.

Since 2016, Kate has been the patron of the All England Membership. She didn’t attend Saturday when Barbora Krejcikova defeated Jasmine Paolini for the ladies’s title.

Kate revealed in March that she has an unspecified type of most cancers and was present process chemotherapy. Her lone public look since then had been attending final month’s birthday parade for King Charles III. Earlier than that occasion, she launched a press release saying she was “making good progress” however nonetheless had “good days and unhealthy days.”

Prince William has been a daily at Wimbledon finals however was not there Sunday. As a substitute, he deliberate to be in Germany to observe England face Spain within the last of the lads’s soccer European Championship. He’s the president of the English Soccer Affiliation.

Queen Camilla, spouse of King Charles III, visited Wimbledon on Wednesday.

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