Princess Kate will join her husband at a ceremony to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day this afternoon, Kensington Palace has announced.
It will mark the Princess of Wales’s second public engagement of the year after she visited the Royal Marsden Hospital in London on January 14.
The ceremony, held at an undisclosed location for security reasons, will be broadcast on BBC1 at 7pm this evening.
The event will bring together faith and civic leaders as well as survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.
William will give a reading and light a candle during the ceremony. The candles will act as a symbol to remember all those who lost their lives in the Holocaust and other genocides.
In 2020, the Prince and Princess of Wales attended the 75th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day at Central Hall in Westminster.
During the emotional event, Prince William read an excerpt from a letter penned by a friend of his great-grandmother, Princess Alice, highlighting her efforts to rescue Jews in Athens.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with the King attending commemorations at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
He became the first British monarch to visit the notorious death camp.
Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945, by soldiers who found 7,500 prisoners and 600 corpses.
Eighty years to the day, heads of state, presidents and prime ministers from around the globe are gathering at the site in Poland for a poignant remembrance ceremony.
It comes five years after Camilla visited the concentration camp for its 75th anniversary. In 2015, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited another camp, Bergen-Belsen, during a visit to Germany.
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