Kate Middleton and Prince William Just Upped Their Social Media Game! See the ‘September Rewind’

• Kate Middleton and Prince William’s official X account has introduced a new feature
• “September Rewind” recapitulated the Prince and Princess of Wales’ joint and solo engagements last month
• Princess Kate will not attend the upcoming Earthshot Awards in Singapore

Kate Middleton and Prince William are experimenting with their social media strategy.

On Sunday, the Prince and Princess of Wales team released a new feature on the x look back at the couple’s royal engagement in September. Prince William and Princess Kate, both 41, returned to work last month after a summer break from late July to August and stepped out again after Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, returned to classroom at school. Lambrook School.

“Welcome to the September Rewind with the Prince and Princess of Wales,” the Kensington Royal thread began with a finger-pointing emoji and moved on to reposting summaries of recent outings.

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“Starting the month with @HomewardsUK. Exploring how local businesses can help tackle homelessness in Bournemouth @StevenBartlett, @Pret and @afcbournemouth,” the first message read, again referring to Prince William’s September 7 visit to a Pret cafe in Bournemouth, England for his Homewards campaign. The new initiative, which launched in June, will provide $3.8 million to six different sites as seed money for an ambitious plan to make homelessness “infrequent, brief and non-recurring” over a five-year plan.

A subsequent post entitled “Remembering Her Late Majesty The Queen” described William and Kate’s visit to Wales on 8 September. The royal family traveled to Wales on the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death for a service at St Davids Cathedral in honor of the late monarch. . The stop in Wales was a poignant reminder that the couple were named Prince and Princess of Wales by King Charles on September 9 last year, just one day after taking the throne. The move acknowledges William and Kate’s status in the royal family and hints at their key roles ahead.

“Charles is already ahead of them and [William and Kate] both are involved in behind-the-scenes decision-making. They’re ready and willing to do the work—and Kate is very much a part of that,’ a friend of the princess told PEOPLE.

The next thread was a video about their second stop of the day — Câr-Y-Môr Seaweed Farm, Wales’ first “regenerative ocean farm” and a key partner of Notpla, a sustainable packaging startup and winner of the Earthshot 2022 Build a Zero Waste World Award.

The post then switched to the Prince and Princess of Wales “Talking Rugby…” on a special episode of Mike Tindall’s podcast The good, the bad and the rugby along with Princess Anne on September 9. Mike is married to Princess Anne’s daughter Zara, and the trio joined the retired England rugby star and his co-hosts in a special chat timed to the start of the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. In a memorable line, Princess Kate denied competing and Mike jokingly retorted that “I saw her playing beer pong!”

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The inaugural September Rewind then shared footage of Kate and William “capturing a couple #RWC2023 games’ that weekend, posting photos of Kate meeting England players after their Rugby World Cup group stage match against Argentina on September 9, with William linking up with members of the Welsh rugby team the following day.

The different plans were no surprise, as the Prince and Princess of Wales share a friendly rugby rivalry! William is a long-standing patron of the Welsh Rugby Union, while Kate is a patron of the Rugby Football Union and the Rugby Football League, which govern the game in England. Queen Elizabeth selected her for rugby roles in February 2022, reassigning positions previously held by Prince Harry, who stepped down from his working royal role with wife Meghan Markle in 2020.

Kate Middleton and Prince William visit Kings Pitt Farm in Hereford on September 14.

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William and Kate’s team then re-shared a video about the Duchy of Cornwall’s new mental health strategy in collaboration with We Are Farming Minds. The video coincided with the couple’s visit on September 14 to the charity in Hereford, which works to prevent suicides in the local, rural community and raise awareness of the importance of mental health. William inherited the Duchy of Cornwall from his father King Charles after the death of Queen Elizabeth last year and the lucrative Duchy that comes with it. The holdings of agricultural land, property and commercial businesses are worth about 1.3 billion dollars.

Rewind to highlights from William’s “busy few days in New York” from his two-day visit to the US, including the announcement of the 15 finalists in the running for the 2023 Earthshot Prize. The cohort was announced at the second annual Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in New York on September 19, and the five finalists — who will be revealed at the 2023 Earthshot Prize Awards ceremony in Singapore on November 7 — will receive $1.2 million and support to scale their environmental solutions to scale.

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The September Rewind closed with videos about the Billion Oyster Project, a non-profit organization working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor, which William visited on September 18, and a behind-the-scenes look at Kate’s trip to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton the same day. The stoppage doubled as her debut as a Fleet Air Arm commodore; Over the summer, King Charles appointed his daughter-in-law to a position in the royal role revamped by Prince Andrew, who will hold the position until 2022.

The Prince and Princess of Wales team closed the first September Rewind by sending a thank you to all the charities and organizations they supported last month.

“Thanks to everyone involved,” the post closed.

Kate Middleton and Prince William visit Kings Pitt Farm in Hereford on September 14.

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The update comes after it was confirmed that Princess Kate will not be joining her husband at the upcoming Earthshot Awards ceremony in Singapore on November 7. Instead, she will stay at home to look after their three children during the important week. PEOPLE knows Prince George has school exams that week and his mother will be at home in Windsor to support him.

The update comes after Prince William officially confirmed that he will travel to Singapore for a special event during the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in Manhattan on September 19.

Prince William speaks at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit on September 19.

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Princess Kate will break with tradition when she misses the third annual awards show, which she has attended for the past two years. Prince William launched the 2020 Earthshot Prize to promote impactful approaches to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges, with plans to award prizes until 2030.

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