Bad news from Kensington Palace about Kate

The Princess of Wales, who is continuing her chemotherapy, will miss The Colonel's first play before The Colour.

If there was still any doubt, hopes were dampened on Thursday by Kensington Palace: The Princess of Wales, who is continuing her chemotherapy, will not attend the Color Troupe rehearsal on June 8.

This announcement comes as a surprise, if not contradictory, amid the positive and reassuring rumors that have spread in recent days. Over the past week, we've been able to read the details of what Kate was up to “New direction in her cancer treatment,” and that she would “feel much better,” or even that she would have been I saw “running errands.”alone with his family.

In a rare official update on the health of the Princess of Wales, The palace has just confirmed that she will not be participating no In the review of Col – The traditional rehearsal for this year's royal ceremony, the Color Band.

The June 8 rehearsal takes place a week before the Trooping The Colors concert on June 15, one of the most important dates in the royal calendar. Getty Images Europe

The military ceremony, which takes place the weekend before the parade, was scheduled to be seen The Princess is saluted as Colonel-in-Chief of the Irish Guards. This role will therefore be assumed by Lieutenant General James Bucknall on behalf of the absent princess.

Charles III, for his part, is expected to participate in the ceremony, but he will inspect the soldiers on a horse-drawn carriage. It's a marked change from last year, when he inspected mounted troops – the first for a British monarch since 1986. As Buckingham Palace has noted in the past: Each commitment will be reviewed and adapted based on the advice of doctorsWhere the king faces his treatment for cancer.

Suspended attendance

Kate continues to stay away from public royal events during her chemotherapy treatment. The princess who according to daily Mailis inundated every week with “thousands of healing messages,” He will only return when doctors give him the green light.

It remains to be seen whether or not she will attend Trooping the Color on June 15. A celebration full of military pomp and show, which obviously includes the traditional salute from the balcony of the entire royal family. In the absence of more detailed information from Kensington Palace, all hopes, even the smallest, are allowed.