Britain’s Prince William to be joined by wife Kate for visit to India

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Prince William and Kate to visit India for Earthshot Prize, marking her biggest foreign trip since cancer treatment. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prince William and wife Kate are flying out for a series of events across Mumbai during a three-day visit.

LONDON – Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, will undertake her biggest foreign trip since having treatment for cancer when she joins her husband Prince William in India for his annual Earthshot Prize awards this week.

Heir-to-the-throne William, 44, and Kate are flying out for a series of events across Mumbai during a three-day visit that includes the Nov 17 awards ceremony.

For Kate, 44, the trip marks her most high-profile overseas visit since she had preventative chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer in 2024. While she is now in remission, she says the illness still impacts her life.

William, who, like his father King Charles, has made campaigning on the environment one of his biggest causes, founded the Earthshot Prize in 2020 with the aim of finding solutions to climate change. It awards five winners £1 million (S$1.7 million) each to scale up their projects.

“For the prince, Earthshot is ultimately about replacing pessimism with possibility,” a spokesperson for the couple’s office at Kensington Palace said.

“It is about demonstrating that while the environmental challenges facing our planet are serious, the ingenuity, determination and creativity being applied to solving them are every bit as powerful.”

At the awards ceremony, which organisers say will be its biggest so far, the royals will be joined by a number of celebrities including Indian cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar, actors Alia Bhatt and Rami Malek, and British pop group Take That, who will give their first performance in India.

“To be performing here for the very first time, after all these years, and alongside the extraordinary people creating a better future for our planet is really special,” the group said in a statement.

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