Kate Middleton Set To Visit India With Prince William For Earthshot Prize After Cancer Treatment

The royal couple will travel to Mumbai for a series of engagements, including Tuesday's Earthshot Prize awards ceremony.

Britain's Princess of Wales Kate Middleton will accompany her husband Prince William on a three-day visit to India this week, marking her biggest foreign trip since undergoing cancer treatment in 2024.

The royal couple will travel to Mumbai for a series of engagements, including Tuesday's Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. The visit will be closely watched as Kate, 44, has gradually returned to public duties following her treatment for an unspecified form of cancer. Kate underwent preventative chemotherapy in 2024 and later announced that she was in remission. However, she has said that the illness continues to affect her life and recovery.

The India visit will be her most high-profile overseas engagement since her treatment. Her only significant foreign trip during this period was a two-day visit to Italy in May, which she undertook alone as part of her work on early childhood development.

Earthshot Prize Ceremony To Bring Together Cricket, Cinema And Music Stars

Prince William, 44, founded the Earthshot Prize in 2020 to identify and support solutions to environmental challenges. The annual award recognises five winners, each receiving £1 million (around $1.3 million) to help scale up projects aimed at addressing climate change and other environmental problems.

A spokesperson for the couple's office at Kensington Palace told Reuters that the initiative was ultimately about "replacing pessimism with possibility". The spokesperson added that while environmental challenges were serious, the creativity, determination and ingenuity being applied to address them were equally powerful.

Organisers said that this year's ceremony will be the biggest edition of the awards so far. The event is expected to bring together prominent names from sports, cinema and music, including Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, actors Alia Bhatt and Rami Malek, and British pop group Take That.

The group will perform in India for the first time. In a statement, Take That described the opportunity to perform alongside people working towards a better future for the planet as "really special".

Kate's Return To Overseas Engagements

Beyond the awards ceremony, William and Kate are scheduled to attend events linked to Indian cricket, fashion and cinema during their stay in Mumbai.

Kate has significantly reduced her official workload since her cancer diagnosis, saying she has been taking each day as it comes. Although her public appearances have gradually increased, she has not previously accompanied William on a foreign trip since undergoing treatment.

In an interview published this week in Country Life magazine, for which William served as guest editor, Kate spoke about the challenges of recovery.

"I was told in hospital that my recovery would not be linear. There will be good days and bad days, that it will take time," she said.