The Princess of Wales did not attend today’s Easter Sunday church service in Windsor.
The Princess of Wales was absent today from the annual Easter Sunday church service in Windsor. King Charles beamed as he led the rest of the Royal Family at the annual morning Easter Service, which took place at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
However, the Prince and Princess of Wales did not attend for the second year in a row, as they were also absent last year after Princess Kate, who is now in remission, was diagnosed with cancer. This year, William and Kate opted to miss the major event to spend time with their children in Norfolk. A source told the Mirror earlier this week: “They are choosing to spend time together as a family before the children go back to school.”
Princess Kate was absent from today’s Easter Sunday church service (Image: Getty)
Princess Kate did not attend Easter Sunday’s church service last year either (Image: Getty)
The prince, a future head of the Church of England, told his father, the King, of his plans for the remainder of the Easter holidays with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, according to the outlet.
The Waleses have a country home, Anmer Hall, on the Sandringham estate. Charles and the rest of the royals put on a united front today as they beamed on their way to church.
Last year, the King’s Easter Sunday appearance was his first major public one following his own cancer diagnosis. He was applauded by the crowds as he greeted well-wishers who urged him to “keep going strong”.
On Thursday, the monarch, joined by his wife, Queen Camilla, attended the traditional Maundy service at Durham Cathedral, a key date in the royal calendar.
He gave Maundy money to 76 men and 76 women – one for every year of his age – in thanks for their Christian service to their communities.
In his 2025 Easter message, Charles hailed love as an important virtue across religions and one that the world “still needs”.
He said Jesus’s actions were a “token of His love that knew no bounds or boundaries and is central to Christian belief”.
“The love He showed when He walked the Earth reflected the Jewish ethic of caring for the stranger and those in need, a deep human instinct echoed in Islam and other religious traditions, and in the hearts of all who seek the good of others,” he went on.
“The abiding message of Easter is that God so loved the world, the whole world, that He sent His son to live among us to show us how to love one another, and to lay down His own life for others in a love that proved stronger than death.
“There are three virtues that the world still needs, faith, hope and love. ‘And the greatest of these is love’.”
Charles also said humanity is “capable of both great cruelty and great kindness”.
