US EditionKate Middleton Walks Backwards in Stilettos While Getting Off a Fighter Jet
The Princess of Wales engaged with personnel and families at RAF Coningsby, home to two frontline squadrons and a 24/7 Quick Reaction Alert mission protecting UK airspace.
- On October 2, 2025, Catherine, Princess of Wales, arrived at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, by helicopter about 12.25pm and was escorted to the Quick Reaction Alert facility by a Range Rover.
- As a key QRA site, RAF Coningsby is one of two Quick Reaction Alert stations providing a 24/7 interception response, and the visit highlighted recent deployments to Poland supporting NATO.
- Viewing a Typhoon, the Princess toured the Typhoon Future Synthetic Training Facility, flew a loop-the-loop in the jet simulator and met junior aviators, RAF Coningsby Welfare Team, and families of serving personnel.
- She acknowledged the station's recent Stainforth Trophy and was briefed on deployments to Poland supporting NATO, highlighting Coningsby's operational contributions.
- The visit also had personal resonance because jets from Lincolnshire can reach London in under 10 minutes and Quick Reaction Alert Typhoons are armed to react within minutes, while she returned after cancer diagnosis and recovery and has RAF ties through Peter Middleton.
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Kate Middleton Walks Backwards in Stilettos While Getting Off a Fighter Jet
Kate Middleton just turned a standard airplane exit into a full-on royal runway moment. With the grace and poise of a future queen, the Princess of Wales, 43, made descending eight steep steps in sky-high stilettos look like a royal breeze on Thursday, October 2, while visiting RAF Coningsby for the first time since becoming its Royal Honorary Air Commodore. In a video posted by Hello! Magazine, Kate could be seen walking backwards down the stai…
While visiting the British Air Force, Princess Kate demonstrates her pilot skills in Coningsby: in a flight simulator, she even performs a looping maneuver. A Royal Air Force captain pays her respects.
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