Given the tough year Kate Middleton has had, royal watchers were unsure whether she'd host her annual Christmas carol concert. Thankfully, she is.

The Princess of Wales's annual Christmas carol service is to go ahead this year and will celebrate people from "all over the UK who have shown love, kindness and empathy" to those in need of support. Kensington Palace said the fourth Together At Christmas service will take place at Westminster Abbey on 6 December.

The Princess of Wales’s annual Christmas carol concert will this year focus on the theme of “how much we need each other, especially in the most difficult times of our lives”. The Princess, who is making a gradual return to public life after chemotherapy,