Prince William, Princess Kate and King Charles waving© Getty

Prince William and Princess Kate's public message to King Charles on his 76th birthday - details

His Majesty is celebrating his 76th birthday

Deputy Online Editor
13 hours ago

The Prince and Princess of Wales have sent their best wishes to King Charles in honour of his 76th birthday on Thursday. 

In a touching gesture, the royal couple took to their social media pages to share a photo of the monarch during a recent engagement alongside a caption which read: "Wishing a very Happy Birthday to His Majesty The King!"

The photograph was taken last month during Charles and Camilla's visit to Samoa, with the monarch sporting a beige suit with sunglasses and a ceremonial garland to open The King's Garden, at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia.

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William and Kate shared a photo of the King in Samoa

The royal family's social media account also posted a portrait of Charles, wearing a blue suit, taken at Buckingham Palace to mark the occasion. 

The King is set to mark his birthday by opening two hubs designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food. 

The opening of the distribution centres will also mark the first anniversary of the Coronation Food Project, an initiative to support charities feeding the nation with unwanted food. He is set to open the initiative's first two Coronation Food Hubs – one in person and one virtually. 

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It is hoped the hubs will help charities like FareShare and the Felix Project to support communities in need. The hub the King is visiting will host a "surplus food festival," with meals created from food which would otherwise have gone to waste. 

Charles will tour the new facility, meeting beneficiaries and representatives of food banks, schools and community groups. 

The birthday celebration comes shortly after Princess Kate joined King Charles and Prince William at the Remembrance events last weekend. 

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Prince William and Kate joined the King at the Festival of Remembrance over the weekend

The appearance marked a positive step towards Kate's return to public duties following the completion of her chemotherapy treatment. 

Last week, Prince William opened up in an interview with UK print media in South Africa about the past 12 months, and how it's been "the hardest year of his life" amid his wife and father's cancer diagnoses. 

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The King and Queen recently returned home from a trip to Australia and Samoa

"Trying to get through everything else and keep everything on track has been really difficult, he said. "But I'm so proud of my wife, I'm proud of my father, for handling the things that they have done" before saying that "from a personal family point of view" the past year has been "brutal". 

Sharing an update on Kate, he added that she's "doing really well". The King and the Princess of Wales's health battles were confirmed within weeks another in February and March earlier this year. 

Charles has resumed his treatment after returning to the UK from his tour of Australia and Samoa with wife Camilla, while Kate, 42, completed a course of preventative chemotherapy in September.

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