In a special and rare outing for the royal, Princess Alexandra joined King Charles at a church service in London on Wednesday evening in the Queen’s Chapel as the royals marked its 400th anniversary. Princess Alexandra, 88, who is known as the Honourable Lady of Ogilvy, is still listed as a working member of the royal family but has taken a step back from full-time public duties in recent years due to her frailty.

The service at the Queen’s Chapel featured music by the Gentlemen and Children of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal Choir, accompanied by the Duchess of Edinburgh’s String Orchestra and the State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry Band. Yesterday’s congregation also included Ecumenical representatives from the German Lutheran and Jesuit churches in London, in recognition of the Chapel’s history as a place of worship for European courtiers.

After the celebration, Charles also looked at a newly commissioned piece of altar plate, His Majesty King Charles III Ciboria, the first addition to the chapel’s silverware since 1688.

Princess Alexandra was last seen as she attended the King’s Christmas lunch for the wider Royal Family at Buckingham Palace last December.

Her last major engagements were in 2023, and they included attending the King’s Coronation and visiting the Chelsea Flower Show.

She was also among the royals at a Thanksgiving service in Windsor for the late King Constantine of Greece in February 2024.

Born on 25 December 1936, Alexandra is the only daughter of the late Prince George, Duke of Kent and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. Her brothers are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, 89, and Prince Michael of Kent, 82.

Princess Alexandra lives in Thatched House Lodge in Richmond, London, the home she shared with her husband, who died in 2004. The wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent and The Honourable Angus Ogilvy took place on April 24, 1963, at Westminster Abbey.

She was close to her cousin, the late Queen Elizabeth II, and the Royal Family website states, “Princess Alexandra spends much of her working life supporting the many charities and organisations of which she is Patron or President. These organisations reflect her wide-ranging interests, from the arts to health care”.

The royal even trained as a nurse at Great Ormond Street in 1957, and although she did not pursue a career in nursing, her interests are reflected in much of her work today.