Kate to join William for his Earthshot visit to India

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The Princess of Wales will make a return to major overseas royal tours when she joins Prince William in India for his Earthshot Prize awards ceremony.

The Princess of Wales will undertake her biggest foreign trip since having treatment for cancer when she joins ‌Prince William in India for his annual Earthshot Prize awards.

Kensington Palace confirmed that from Monday William and Kate will take part in royal events across Mumbai during a three-day visit that includes Tuesday's awards ceremony.

For Kate the trip marks her most high-profile overseas visit since she had 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 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 stg1 million ($A1.9 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-ever performance in India.

Away from Earthshot, the royals will also ​attend ​events linked to Indian cricket, fashion and cinema.

Since ​her illness, Kate has significantly reduced her official workload, saying she ‌was taking each day as it comes. While her public appearances have gradually increased, she has not joined William on any previous foreign trips.

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