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Kate has officially returned to royal duties today, when she headed to RAF Brize Norton, where she met some of the military personnel and civilians who took part in Operation PITTING. This operation, hailed as the largest humanitarian aid move run by the UK over the past seven decades, saw the evacuation of thousands of people from Afghanistan last month.
The operation was carried out between August 14 and 28, after the Taliban seized back power in the country.
The Ministry of Defense said at the end of last month it had flown out of the country more than 15,000 people – including some 8,000 Afghans.
While at the Oxfordshire base, Kate heard more about the evacuation and the first support offered to refugees on their arrival on British soil.
Among those who she spoke to there were RAF aircrew and medics who helped people at Kabul airport.
And civilians and volunteers who established a repatriation centre at the RAF base in Oxfordshire and continued to provide support and supplies to those fleeing Afghanistan.
In the wake of the fall of Kabul in the hands of the Taliban, Western forces led by the US helped evacuate a total of 123,000 civilians from Afghanistan.
Prior to today’s key engagement, Kate was last seen in public on July 11.
On the day, the tennis enthusiast attended the Wimbledon Men’s Singles final alongside her father Michael Middleton.
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On the evening of that same day, the Duchess joined her firstborn Prince George and husband Prince William at Wembley Stadium for the EURO 2020 final match.
The Duchess is believed to have spent the summer break mostly at Anmer Hall in Norfolk with her close family.
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