This week, he hosted his first official work meeting in more than nine months.
The Princess of Wales began her return to public duty with a meeting at Windsor Castle for her ‘Start of the Year’ project on Tuesday – a week after announcing she had completed a course of ‘preventive’ chemotherapy to fight cancer.
Royal fans will be hoping that she will look happy again at her engagement in public – a year ago this month, when she giggled.
During a visit to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton in Somerset on September 18, 2023, Kate tried it out in a life jacket and was a little surprised when it quickly inflated after he pulled the option.
Now that she has finished chemotherapy treatment for cancer, the Princess of Wales will be hoping to return to public life. A year ago this month, on September 18, 2023, Kate giggled as she visited Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, in Somerset
Kate tried on the life jacket and was a little surprised when it quickly inflated after she pulled the toggle
Princess, who was made commodore-in-chief of the Fleet Air Arm last year, was shown a piece of kit during training with Navy Survival Equipment Technicians.
Kate put her plain looking camouflage green jacket over her shoulders and tied it with the guidance of the instructor.
One of the technicians then showed Kate how to pull the strap to activate the jacket.
With a big grin, the Princess then pulled the toggle and closed her eyes as the device inflated with speed and force, just as it would in an emergency.
As the bright orange fabric puffed up around her neck, Kate was caught by surprise and burst into a fit of giggles.
Kate was wearing a camo-green life jacket as technician Louise Evans-Hughes appeared
Kate looked a little worried as the bright orange fabric of the life jacket quickly became visible
After the jacket stopped puffing up, Kate looked from side to side and smiled nervously, seemingly a little surprised.
Looking a little surprised by the rapid inflation, Princess Kate let out a giggle, before staff helped her remove her lifejacket.
Kate, dressed in a Holland Cooper navy blazer, put on her life jacket under the guidance of a Royal Navy Survival Equipment Technician at the air station
After the training, technician Louise Evans-Hughes said she knew exactly what was going to happen when the life jacket inflated.
He said: “I have told my daughter that something is a little loud because sometimes when the Velcro is opened, there is a sound.
‘I think that’s why he was a little worried about pulling it off. As soon as he pulled it, it was inflated.
“I gave the Princess a choice whether she wanted to wear it or one of my colleagues would wear it.
‘I don’t know if he will or not, but it’s really nice that he gets hands-on and gets really involved in what we do and make the kit work.’
Describing her daughter’s reaction to the inflated life jacket, she said: ‘I saw it a lot when we were training aircrew pilots, so it’s what I see all the time, so I know what’s going to happen and it’s good enough to watch. his face.
‘I then said it was quite snug and did not realize how big it was going to go and I quickly let some air out so that he would not be uncomfortable.’
The Princess of Wales, who is commodore-in-chief of the Fleet Air Arm, arrives at the Royal Naval Air Station in Yeovilton on September 18, 2023
The princess was appointed chief commodore of the Fleet Air Arm in August last year – a title previously held by Prince Andrew before it was stripped from him.
Kate also took up the position of Royal Honorary Air Commodore at RAF Coningsby, a title previously held by Prince William, who has held the role at the Lincolnshire base for 15 years since 2008.
The princess has a family connection to the RAF as her grandfather served as a fighter pilot during the Second World War and flew with the late Duke of Edinburgh in the 1960s.
Captain Peter Middleton – who was Prince Philip’s co-pilot on flights across South America during the royal tour – died aged 90 in 2010, just days before the Prince and Princess announced their engagement.