Royal family news: King Charles returns to public duty as Harry plans solo visit

Sophie, Britain’s Duchess of Edinburgh, met president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife in the first trip to Ukraine by a British royal since the conflict with Russia began in February 2022.

Sophie, 59, the wife of King Charles’ youngest brother Prince Edward, made the surprise visit on behalf of the Foreign Office to show solidarity with those impacted by the war and as part of her work to champion survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, Buckingham Palace said.

“It’s true that women and girls pay the highest price in terms of human cost when it comes to the way that they are affected, the way that they can be used as weapons of war,” she said in a speech during the visit.

“Rape is used to demean, to degrade and to destroy, and we have to get better at trying to prevent that from happening,” she added.

Prince Harry will return to the UK for the first time in three months for a ceremony to mark 10 years of the Invictus Games next week.

He, however, won’t be accompanied by Meghan on his first trip to the country since he visited his father in February, when the King’s cancer diagnosis was announced.

Meghan would not accompany her husband to a service at St Paul’s Cathedral for the ceremony on 8 May, a spokesperson for the couple told Daily Mail.

William and Kate have released an unseen picture to mark their wedding anniversary.

The couple shared a black and white photo of themselves smiling on their wedding day in an X/Twitter post captioned: “13 years ago today!”

The picture of the happy couple shows them looking relaxed in Buckingham Palace after exchanging their wedding vows in Westminster Abbey.

Kate is wearing her now-iconic lace Alexander McQueen dress and gown while William is dressed in the red tunic of a colonel of the Irish Guards.

Police were called to a room at the citizenM Miami Worldcenter hotel at 3.22pm on February 7, the Miami Police Department confirmed to The Independent on Wednesday.

In February, King Charles shared he had been diagnosed with cancer following treatment for a benign enlarged prostate.

In the decades spent waiting to ascend to the throne, King Charles has always ensured he maintained a strict diet and rigid daily exercise routine.

The King and the Duke of Sussex will both be in London at the same time next week, though it is uncertain whether or not the pair will meet.

Harry is set to return to the UK for a ceremony to mark 10 years of the Invictus Games, which he founded in 2014 as a sporting event for injured and sick military personnel and veterans.

Harry will be at the service of thanksgiving at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday 8 May, where he is expected to provide a reading.

It comes as Buckingham Palace announced that Charles is to return to public royal duties next week after responding well to his cancer treatment.

However, The Telegraph reported that the King’s diary is “quite busy”, leading to some speculation as to whether the pair may actually meet.

Harry’s arrival to the UK will mark his first time in the country since he visited his father in February when his father’s cancer diagnosis was announced.