Prince William and Kate Middleton will attend the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards after a two-year break

Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton have been confirmed as attendees at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards.

William, who is also president of BAFTA, will attend the ceremony with Kate before meeting the category winners and EE Rising Star nominees after the show, the organization said.

The Prince of Wales has been president of the BAFTAs since 2010 and has traditionally attended the ceremony with his wife. However, the two missed out on the last two BAFTA Film Awards.

In 2021, Prince William was absent and was scheduled to give a video address, but he changed plans after the death of his grandfather, Prince Philip. Last year, the royal couple were absent due to what the palace called “diary restrictions”.

This year’s BAFTA ceremony will take place on February 19 at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Center and will be broadcast in the UK on BBC One and iPlayer.

Actor Richard E. Grant has been named as the presenter, while British presenter Alison Hammond will head up the BAFTA studio, a new behind-the-scenes stream launched for this year’s ceremony.

This year’s awards ceremony will be held in the Royal Festival Hall for the first time. The BAFTAs were previously held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Also new this year, the ceremony will culminate in a live broadcast of the final four categories for the first time in BAFTA history. In previous years, the event was pre-recorded and broadcast with a time delay.

Netflix’s German-language World War II drama No news from the western front leads the nominations this year with 14 nominations, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay.

All quiet Trek equals Ang Lee’s previous record Crouching tiger hidden dragon for the most nominations for a non-English language film in BAFTA history. All quiet has also since received the most BAFTA nominations for a single film The king’s speech In 2011 there were 14.