It’s the season of celebrations for the tight-knit Wales family—in just 10 days’ time, the family marks two of their three children’s birthdays (Prince Louis was born on April 23, and Princess Charlotte on May 2) as well as the Prince and Princess of Wales’ wedding anniversary on April 29. The cheerful, celebratory mood will surely be a welcome respite from the rest of 2024, which has been extraordinarily difficult on the royal family, with the one-two-three punch of cancer diagnoses for King Charles, the Princess of Wales, and Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York; the suicide of Thomas Kingston; and the rampant media speculation about Kate’s whereabouts prior to the public finding out about her diagnosis on March 22.
