Kate Middleton ‘won’t return to royal duties at Easter’ despite Palace claims

The Princess of Wales will no longer be returning to her duties at Easter, according to a new report.

Kate Middleton will reportedly not return to her royal duties at Easter after all, despite previous claims made by the Palace.

Wild and unsubstantiated rumours as to the real cause of Kate’s lengthy absence from the public eye have swirled over the last week.

Kate Middleton will reportedly not return to royal duties at Easter. Picture from Oak National/Instagram.

Despite the furore surrounding her whereabouts, the Palace has remained firm on the plan for Kate to return to her royal duties at Easter.

However, new reports have now emerged claiming that Kate will take longer to return to the public eye.

Instead, according to the Sunday Times, she’s now likely to pick up her working schedule again when her and Prince William’s children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, head back to school.

The trio’s Easter school holiday ends on April 17, but no official engagements have been announced to mark Kate’s return.

According to the same report, Kate has attempted to keep up her usual routine at home amid her recovery and has still been cooking dinners for the family of five.

The Princess of Wales hasn’t been seen in public since Christmas Day, save for new video footage of her at a farm shop and blurry paparazzi shots of her in a car, with Kensington Palace revealing only that she’d had an abdominal surgery and needed months’ of recuperation, and privacy, back in January.

Kate has been at the centre of numerous conspiracy theories following numerous odd moves by the Palace. Photo from Mega Agency.

With public sympathy heavily on the popular royal’s side, Kate was granted just over a month of relative peace, before a series of successive odd moments and missteps from the Palace saw that protective wall come crashing down.

The Kate scrutiny then hit boiling point after the world’s biggest photo agencies issued a “kill notice” on a new Palace-issued Mother’s Day photo of the princess and her three kids last week, claiming it had been digitally “manipulated”.

Kate herself then took the extraordinary step of releasing a statement about the editing mistake, apologising for any “confusion”.

“Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing,” she wrote on Twitter.

“I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day.”