Kate, The Princess of Wales, will carry out her first major engagement since her operation when she reviews Trooping the Colour, five months after she was forced to step back following abdominal surgery.
The British Army's official website confirmed that the royal would review troops on June 8, ahead of the official parade in central London a week later.
It also names King Charles III as attending the main Trooping ceremony – also known as the Birthday Parade because it marks the sovereign’s official birthday.
It appears the Ministry of Defence hopes Kate will be well enough to attend one of the key ceremonial events in the armed forces’ year.
But only Kensington Palace, Kate’s official office, can announce her attendance at a royal event and confirmation is not expected until nearer the time.
The Princess of Wales was admitted to the London Clinic – the private hospital where King Charles underwent treatment for an enlarged prostate – for a planned operation on January 16, and left on January 29.
On Monday, it was revealed that she had been seen in public for the first time since the surgery.
According to US news website TMZ, the Princess was pictured near Windsor Castle in the passenger seat of a car.
She was wearing dark sunglasses in a black Audi, which was being driven by her mother, Carole Middleton.
King Charles, 75, had visited his daughter-in-law’s bedside after being admitted to hospital himself on January 26. She was also visited by her husband, the Prince of Wales.
First Trooping the Colour of King Charles III – in pictures
After she left the clinic, she returned to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor to be reunited with her three children, Kensington Palace said.
Details of the princess’s condition have not been revealed but the palace has said it is not cancer-related and that she wished her personal medical information to remain private.
The future queen, 42, was last pictured in public, on a Christmas Day walk in Sandringham, Norfolk.
A week after she left hospital, King Charles announced he had been diagnosed with cancer and was receiving treatment.
Prince William, 41, temporarily stepped back from his royal role to juggle caring for the Princess and their children.
He returned to public engagements in early February.
Kate’s parents and siblings, Pippa Matthews and James Middleton, were expected to be helping out the Waleses.
Kate, Princess of Wales’s red carpet style – in pictures
KILLING OF QASSEM SULEIMANI
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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