Prince William is showing up where it counts.
Only two days after Kate Middleton‘s Mother’s Day U.K. photo raised eyebrows, the Prince of Wales stepped out without his wife to attend the funeral of Thomas Kingston, the late husband of his relative Lady Gabriella, multiple outlets reported.
For the private March 12 service, William gathered alongside Gabriella and her parents, the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, at Chapel Royal in St. James’s Palace in London, where the financier was laid to rest.
Despite sharing their grief following his death, Queen Camila and King Charles III were absent from the funeral. Camila hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace the same day, while Charles announced in February that he would be stepping back from public outings as he undergoes cancer treatment.
William’s public outing comes two days after a Mother’s Day photo—which featured Kate and their kids Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5—posted to the official Prince and Princess of Wales’ social media account was pulled from photo agencies amid accusations it had been manipulated. The agencies’ amendment caused speculation among the public as to why the family would edit the photo, with royal expert Omid Scobie calling into question “the Palace’s long history of lying, covering up, and even issuing statements on behalf of family members without their permission.”
