Kate announces a rare joint engagement with the Queen to King’s College London this month – SEVEN years after their last solo outing together
- Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen announced a rare solo joint engagement
- The pair will reopen Bush House at Kings College London later this month
- It will be their first outing without other royals since their first in 2012
- Duchess of Sussex carried out an engagement with the Queen in June last year
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen will carry out a rare joint engagement together this month, it has been announced.
Kate, 37, will join the Queen, 92, at Kings College London, where they will reopen Grade II-listed Bush House following a renovation.
While they have attended dozens of events with the wider family, it will be the first time the pair have made an appearance without other royals since their first joint outing in March 2012.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Queen will carry out a rare joint engagement together this month, it has been announced. It will be the first time the pair have made an appearance without other royals since their first joint outing to Leicester in March 2012, pictured
They carried out a second engagement together that year to launch a military initiative at Fortnum & Mason, London, but were joined by the Duchess of Cornwall, pictured
On that occasion, less than a year on from the Cambridges’ 2011 wedding, Kate and the Queen made a number of stops in Leicester as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK.
They carried out a second engagement together that year to launch a military initiative at Fortnum & Mason, London, but were joined by the Duchess of Cornwall.
The Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge were last seen together on Tuesday when they attended a Buckingham Palace reception celebrating 50 years since Charles’ investiture as the Prince of Wales, pictured
The Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge were last seen together on Tuesday when they attended a Buckingham Palace reception celebrating 50 years since Charles’ investiture as the Prince of Wales.
The upcoming outing on 19 March will see the Queen officially open Bush House, which previously served as the headquarters for BBC World Service but is being leased by Kings College London.
The Queen is patron of the College and previously visited to open the Somerset House East Wing with the Duke of Edinburgh in 2012.
The Duchess of Sussex, 37, carried out her first and only joint engagement with the Queen in June last year, pictured, when they visited Cheshire just weeks after the royal wedding
Kate, who has had a busy start to the year, last visited the institution in January 2018.
During that visit she learned more about the work being done to support new mothers at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute.
The Duchess of Sussex, 37, carried out her first and only joint engagement with the Queen in June last year, when they visited Cheshire just weeks after the royal wedding.