The image, which the palace said was taken at Windsor by her husband Prince William this week, showed the princess with her three children.
The first official photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales since her abdominal surgery in January has been shared by Kensington Palace to mark Mother’s Day in Britain.
It was accompanied by a Mother’s Day message along with a “thank you” from the princess for the public’s “continued support” while she recovers away from the limelight. “Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months,” she wrote. “Wishing everyone a Happy Mother’s Day.” Few details about her condition since, which has garnered significant social media speculation, but has said it is not cancer-related.Enacting their “never complain, never explain” strategy, what started as social media chatter about her “disappearance” from public life flipped over into the mainstream media in recent days, triggered in part by William’s no-show at a memorial for his Greek godfather, the late King Constantine II, last month.