{"id":2188939,"date":"2025-12-06T05:09:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2188939"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:41","slug":"together-at-christmas-princess-kates-family-comes-together-for-star-studded-carol-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/together-at-christmas-princess-kates-family-comes-together-for-star-studded-carol-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Together at Christmas: Princess Kate\u2019s family comes together for star-studded carol service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"hydrate-root sc-10wlkbs-0\" data-component=\"Newsletter\" data-loading=\"lazy\" data-theme-name=\"base\">\n<aside class=\"sc-y4bm30-0 jwWhkK newsletter-component sc-1ge0fwe-0\" data-newsletter-key=\"receiveIndyHeadlinesNews\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-1 inRDZn\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-3\">\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-4 hfveGa\">\n<p><h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-6 fvoxRM fafQAy\">Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-8 fvoxRM fvWmZq\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"sc-y4bm30-5 sc-y4bm30-7 fvoxRM hkVmms\">Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"sc-eaj12q-0 hKcUSR sc-culv3z-0 eifaJK sc-1ix0cah-0 PYnPb sc-y4bm30-10 fUEDPX\"><use href=\"#600f53465147d717\"\/><\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"sc-y4bm30-2 kcLSBk sc-y4bm30-9 iQYNfz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/static-assets\/images\/newsletters\/morningHeadlines1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Morning Headlines\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Prince and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/princess-of-wales\">Princess of Wales<\/a>, with their children, attended the Princess&#8217;s annual &#8220;Together at Christmas&#8221; carol service at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/westminster-abbey\">Westminster Abbey<\/a>, joining 1,600 guests including celebrities, sporting stars, and community stalwarts. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/together-at-christmas-kate-middleton-b2879017.html\">The event, celebrating &#8220;love in all its forms,&#8221;<\/a> filled the historic pews where the royal couple married in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Before the service, the Princess met performers, celebrities and readers, including actress Kate Winslet and singer Katie Melua. <\/p>\n<p>She shared her children&#8217;s excitement with Bastille\u2019s lead singer, Dan Smith, stating: &#8220;They\u2019re really excited, it\u2019s become such a tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/prince-george\">Prince George<\/a>, 12, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/princess-charlotte\">Princess Charlotte<\/a>, 10, and Prince Louis, seven, later arrived with their father, greeted by the Princess. Outside the Abbey, the family paused at a &#8220;Connection Tree,&#8221; adorned with paper chains bearing guests&#8217; names.<\/p>\n<p>The children added their names to the tree, a symbol of togetherness and the importance of moments of connection. The congregation were also able to add their names to the \u201cConnection Tree\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-2 cbpRGD sc-awdjp1-3 image align-center\">\n<figure class=\"sc-1cbdeug-0 cXcwgU\">\n<div class=\"sc-awdjp1-0 hcSZFO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/05\/17\/a157366268aba342104f088c5f1e3ac1Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY1MDQyMjM4-2.82678586.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/05\/17\/a157366268aba342104f088c5f1e3ac1Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY1MDQyMjM4-2.82678586.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=320&amp;auto=webp 320w, https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/05\/17\/a157366268aba342104f088c5f1e3ac1Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY1MDQyMjM4-2.82678586.jpg?quality=75&amp;width=640&amp;auto=webp 640w\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children during the Together At Christmas carol service\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 gtVitN hgzWpY\">The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children during the Together At Christmas carol service<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 exGSyR\"> <!-- -->(<!-- -->Aaron Chown\/PA<!-- -->)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The annual and popular service recognised individuals from across the UK who may have dedicated or volunteered their time to others, led initiatives that bring people in their community together, or offered a helping hand to those around them.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 community carol services, held in places including the Coronation Street Visitor Centre, an arts centre in Newbury and a community farm in Gwent, are also set to take place across the UK with the same love and togetherness theme.<\/p>\n<p>Armagh, Berkshire, Derbyshire, Dumfries, Dyfed, East Riding, Gwent, Greater Manchester, Isle of Wight, Lanarkshire, Nottinghamshire, Renfrewshire &amp; Ayrshire, Suffolk, Wiltshire and Worcestershire are the locations for the community services which are to be hosted by lord-lieutenants and supported by The Royal Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Westminster Abbey service is set to air on ITV1 and ITVX on Christmas Eve and will be repeated on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children, attended the Princess&#8217;s annual &#8220;Together at Christmas&#8221; carol service at Westminster Abbey, joining 1,600 guests including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Together-at-Christmas-Princess-Kates-family-comes-together-for-star-studded-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188941,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188939\/revisions\/2188941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}