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That’s why the bells didn’t ring for Kate Middleton this year

When Kate Middleton turned 40, the bells of Westminster Abbey, who traditionally celebrate the birthdays of all senior royals, they didn’t ring. Kate listened to those festive tolls in April 2011, when right in Westminster Abbey he said “yes” to the prince William, and since then to each of his birthdays. The last time was in January 2020, when he blew out 38 candles. This time, however, the bells remained silent. Due to the financial woes the pandemic has thrown the whole of the UK into: the royal family also had to review their expenses. The tradition would now be reserved, as he explained to Hello a spokesman for Westminster Abbey, only to the queen Elizabeth II and to the son Carlo. However, on April 21st they remained silent even when The Queen turned 95. To respect his mourning. A few days earlier the sovereign had lost her beloved husband, the Prince Philip.

In fact, it has been since April 2020 that the London sky has not been filled with the sound of bells on the occasion of the birthday of a senior royal. They had played, on February 19, 2020, even for the 60th anniversary of the prince Andrew of York, despite having already been overwhelmed by the Epstein scandal and for this reason “ousted” from the official duties of the royal family. So during the coronavirus lockdown they rang for William of England. Then nothing more. In the past two years they have not even honored the seventh and eighth birthdays of the future king George of Cambridge (on July 22).

Before the pandemic, the festive tolls were also used to pay homage Camilla of Cornwall, the Princess Anna, Prince Edoardo, and the little ones Louis e Charlotte of Cambridge. Harry’s birthdays and Meghan Markleinstead, they were not celebrated with bells even before the Sussexes retired from royal duties and said goodbye to the royal family. But it was not the queen’s rudeness. “The bells”, as a spokesman for the abbey “heart” of the English monarchy explained, only ring “to signal the birthdays of senior members of the royal family and those in direct succession, such as the Dukes of Cambridge and their children” .

Kate had to do without it for her 40th birthday. But she still enjoyed it a beautiful birthday: at home, surrounded by dearest affections. The Duchess in fact celebrated at Kensington Palace with her husband, three children, and a handful of relatives and close friends. Without pomp and ceremony. Just the way she likes it.

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