{"id":218038,"date":"2025-06-27T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218038\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:32:13","slug":"duchess-sophie-represents-royal-family-at-special-event-as-kate-steps-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218038\/","title":{"rendered":"Duchess Sophie represents royal family at special event as Kate steps back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1324977_6573978_Duchess-Sophie-(32)_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Duchess Sophie represents royal family at special event as Kate steps back\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Duchess Sophie represents royal family at special event as Kate steps back<\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace issued a delightful update on Duchess Sophie amid Princess Kate&#8217;s absence from the public eye. <\/p>\n<p>The official Instagram page of the royal family dropped a video of Duchess of Edingburgh from her visit to Central School of Ballet.<\/p>\n<p>The mother-of-two represented the royal family as the Princess of Wales stepped back from royal duties for a brief period of time. <\/p>\n<p>The message alongside the video reads, &#8220;&#8216;En pointe&#8217; performances at the Central School of Ballet!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Patron since 2003, The Duchess toured The Countess of Wessex Studios, which were named in recognition of her longstanding patronage and support of the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the visit, Her Royal Highness watched rehearsals for an upcoming summer performance, toured the Wardrobe Area, and met staff and students from the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the Palace spokesperson provided an update on Sophie after future Queen Catherine withdrew from the Royal Ascot 2025 event at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Prince William&#8217;s wife has been doing work behind the scenes but she has not stepped out during her phase of remission from cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duchess Sophie represents royal family at special event as Kate steps back Buckingham Palace issued a delightful update&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-218038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114754168065686012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}