The annual military ceremony celebrates the British monarch’s official birthday, and Charles will also attend following his cancer diagnosis.
In her personal statement, Kate wrote that she was “not out of the woods yet” and that she had “good days and bad days.” She said she was “making good progress” but that her treatment would continue for a few more months.
His presence at Saturday’s parade will be seen as a significant positive step after a months-long absence that fueled widespread speculation.
Kate and Prince William’s children, George, 10, Charlotte, 8, and Louis, 5, have also largely been out of the public eye in recent months. They will join her at Saturday’s event, arriving with her in a carriage down the Mall before watching alongside her on the Horse Guards Parade grounds and then making an appearance on the royal balcony.
The family traditionally gathers on the balcony at the end of each year’s event to watch a Royal Air Force flyover.
The event in central London will see Charles carry out the review of guards and officers in a carriage alongside Queen Camilla, rather than on horseback as he did last year.
Inspecting troops on horseback in his first official birthday parade, Charles revived a tradition that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, abandoned in 1986, when she was 60.
William will be on horseback this year.
Also known as the King’s Birthday Parade, the ceremony has been an annual event since 1760. It is the British military’s annual tribute to the monarch and marks his official birthday.
Charles’ real birthday is November 14th.
The traditional spectacle of military pageantry and pageantry will feature soldiers marching in scarlet coats and bearskin hats accompanied by music played by military bands.
Among the 242 horses taking part in this year’s event will be three members of the Household Cavalry who were injured after being frightened by noise in London earlier this year.
Charles, who was diagnosed with cancer in February, is also undergoing treatment. Doctors discovered the disease after he was hospitalized with an enlarged prostate, although the palace has said he does not have prostate cancer.
Both Charles and Kate declined to specify what type of cancer they have or details about their prognosis.
The 75-year-old monarch has attended several engagements since resuming public duties last month, including D-Day memorial services in France.
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