Catherine, Princess of Wales to Host Sixth Together at Christmas Carol Service
Catherine, Princess of Wales, will host her sixth annual Together at Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey in London on Friday, December 11, according to Town & Country.
More than 1,600 guests are expected at the abbey. It is the church where British monarchs have been crowned for centuries, and it is also where Catherine married Prince William in 2011.
Carol services are built around Christmas carols, the traditional hymns sung at the holidays. Westminster Abbey said this year's service will highlight the importance of love, kindness and caring for one another.
The abbey event is only part of the program. Kensington Palace, the London home of the Prince and Princess of Wales's household, announced 15 smaller Together at Christmas community carol services. They will take place across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The locations stretch from the Shetland Islands, a group of islands off Scotland's far north coast, to Devon, in the southwest of England.
For American readers, the format will look familiar. It is a holiday service in a famous church, with the reach extended to local communities far from the capital. Held across four nations and two ends of the map, the smaller services bring the idea to towns that will never see the abbey's stone walls.
The Together at Christmas name has been used since Catherine began the series, and this December marks the sixth year the carol service has been held.
