The King has arrived for the Easter Sunday service at
Windsor Castle, in his most significant public appearance since he was diagnosed with cancer. Charles, 75, arrived by car at St George's Chapel shortly after 10.40am. He was joined by the family for the annual Easter Mattins Service at St George's Chapel on Sunday. The Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duke and Duchess of York all arrived at the chapel a few moments earlier. are not due to attend the service. It comes just over a week after Kate released an emotional video message disclosing that she had started a course of preventative chemotherapy. She, the Prince of Wales and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, who all attended the service last year, are absent. The family are spending the Easter holidays together as they adjust to Kate's diagnosis, which was discovered in post-operative tests after major abdominal surgery. The Archbishop of Canterbury has wished the King and Princess of Wales well in an Easter sermon at Canterbury Cathedral. Justin Welby encouraged the congregation to "pray" for Charles and Kate, who are both undergoing treatment for cancer, and commended their "dignity" in responding to the diagnosis. He said: "We have watched and sympathised with, and felt alongside, the dignity of the King and the Princess of Wales as they have talked of their
cancer and in doing so, by their lack of selfishness, by their grace and their faith, boosted so many others." A
Kensington Palace spokesperson has since said the princess and her husband were "enormously touched by the kind messages from people here in the
UK, across the commonwealth and around the world in response to Her Royal Highness's message". Mr Welby also used his annual Easter Day Holy Communion address to call for "love in action" to help those caught up in conflict, including children in
Gaza and Sudan, hostages held by Hamas and people in Ukrainian cities.