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Princess Kate beams at BAFTAs with Prince William as royals ignore Andrew scandal

The Prince and Princess of Wales are attending the EE BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony on the Royal Pageant Corridor tonight.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have arrived for the EE BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock)

The Prince and Princess of Wales dazzled in matching maroon this afternoon as they made their first public look since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest final week on the BAFTAs. Talking earlier than the awards have been introduced, William mentioned he was but to observe Greatest Image nominee Hamnet as a result of he “wanted to be in a peaceful temper”. 

Catherine in the meantime watched the massively emotional movie on Saturday night time and was left in “floods of tears”. However when requested if he had seen it, William defined: “I must be in fairly a peaceful state and I’m not in the meanwhile. I’ll reserve it.”

Hamnet tells the story of the tragic dying in childhood of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and the grief of his dad and mom. “I believed it was a foul thought, truly,” the princess joked of watching the movie earlier than the ceremony. “Ended up with very puffy eyes. It was so superbly shot. The music as properly. The rating is unbelievable.”

The beaming couple stepped onto the crimson carpet to cheers on Sunday afternoon as they attended the star-studded occasion collectively for the primary time in three years.

Princess Kate’s hair is superbly curled (Picture: Getty)

The Princess of Wales is sporting a Gucci gown (Picture: WireImage)

Of their first public engagement since William’s disgraced uncle was arrested over suspicion of misconduct in public workplace on Thursday morning, the senior royals tried to indicate that it was very a lot enterprise as normal for the Agency as they appeared on the Royal Pageant Corridor alongside the Hollywood elite.

William mentioned he had not but seen Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet, and described the vampire film Sinners as “a bit darkish”.

He mentioned: “I’ve seen One Battle After One other, that was excellent. We weren’t anticipating it to start out the best way it did.”

Catherine oozed glamour in a mushy blush Gucci robe with a maroon velvet belt and her hair in bouncy curls. She final wore the dusky pink gown for the 100 Ladies in Finance Gala in 2019.

William matched his spouse in a traditional maroon velvet tuxedo, wanting dapper in a black bow tie.

The Prince and Princess of Wales attending the 79th British Academy Movie Awards (Picture: PA)

The Princess additionally revealed how Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at the moment are taking a larger curiosity in movies.

Emily Stillman, Chair of Bafta’s Movie Committee, informed her: “Final time I noticed you you have been pregnant with George and also you have been doing all your Harry Potter spells.”
She was referring to the royal couple’s 2013 go to, together with Prince Harry, to the Warner Brothers studios in Hertfordshire, the place they toured the set of Harry Potter.

“I used to be saying how a lot the kids would like to appears to be like round,” replied Catherine. “They love the concept of going behind the scenes and discovering out the way it all occurs.”

William, as President of the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts (BAFTA), final attended the glitzy occasion in 2024. He attended on his personal as Catherine was at dwelling recovering from her main belly surgical procedure. She was later recognized with most cancers and has been in remission for over a 12 months.

Upon arrival, the Prince and Princess met Jane Millichip, Chief Government Officer, BAFTA, and have been launched to quite a lot of key BAFTA representatives.

Later within the night time, the prince will current the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Academy’s highest honour, to Dame Donna Langley, Chair of NBCUniversal Leisure, who’s being recognised for her excellent contribution to movie.

Princess Kate is sporting a flowing pink gown (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock)

The Princess of Wales final wore the Gucci gown in 2019 for the 100 Ladies in Finance Gala (Picture: PA)

The Prince and Princess of Wales final attended the Baftas in 2023 (Picture: Getty)

This 12 months’s awards present will probably be hosted by Scottish actor, author, producer and presenter, Alan Cumming.

Friends will probably be handled to performances by the singing voices behind the worldwide phenomenon, KPop Demon Hunters, who will sing their chart topping hit “Golden”, and award-winning British singer songwriter Jessie Ware will carry out a particular tribute throughout the ceremony’s In Memoriam.

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The couple final attended the BAFTAs collectively in 2023 and tonight marks the seventh time they’ve attended the present togegther.

The EE BAFTA Movie Awards will probably be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 7pm on Sunday twenty second February.

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