Kate Middleton and William's new departure: they will not attend the Bafta awards

BarcelonaOnce again, unofficial channels preceded the institutional announcements from Kensington Palace. This Monday, the journalist from the newspaper The Times Kate Mansey claimed on her X profile that William and Kate Middleton will not attend the Bafta awards, despite the fact that the prince has been the president of the British film and television academy since 2010. Hours later, the palace of the heirs to the Crown issued an official statement confirming the official statement confirming its official statement.

"The Prince of Wales will not attend the Bafta awards ceremony on Sunday, but will instead focus his efforts on supporting the next generation of film talent," said the journalist from The Times Kate Mansey, a specialist in the Crown, added: "This year it falls on the first weekend of the end-of-term holidays," she added in the same post. But the explanation has not satisfied some of the users of the social network, who do not understand why the children's holidays mean the absence of the heirs to the Crown at the British film awards. "It's starting to sound like an excuse," "What's the problem?", "I'm sure they knew the dates of both things before they said they would attend the awards," wrote some of the Internet users.

Following the uproar caused by the message posted on the journalist's personal profile, various newspapers have echoed the statement that Kensington Palace made public a few hours later (without contradicting Mansey's version). On the other hand, in the confirmation of the absence it has also been announced that William will make an appearance during the gala through a pre-recorded video. At the same time, the same official channel has also made public this Wednesday morning that William will visit the London Screen Academy to "meet new British film talents" and assures that the visit represents "the prince's continued support for television, film and the British entertainment industry as president of the Bafta".

Thus, despite the fact that this January Kate announced her remission from cancer, as well as the completion of chemotherapy treatment in September, in addition to the increasingly frequent public appearances of the Princess of Wales – all of them mediatized through royal communication – she has still not managed to return to the normality of her public agenda before the announcement of the disease. In fact, this will be the second year that the young woman of the King of England will not attend the Baftas, since last year she was absent justifying her recent abdominal operation, which a few weeks later was announced to be linked to the cancer she suffers from.