The Princess is a patron of the All England Club and arms out trophies to the winners and runners-up on finals weekend, although could have been relieved that Saturday's match consisted of Jabeur and Vondrousova as she prevented a possible headline story being pictured with a Russian or Belarussian participant amid the continuing warfare in Ukraine.

Russian and Belarussian gamers have been banned from coming into final 12 months's match, however returned this 12 months underneath a impartial flag. Though Kate was dealing with the prospect of being pictured with Aryna Sabalenka - a Belarussian participant who made it to the semi-finals however she was defeated by Jabeur.

It was the same state of affairs final 12 months as Elina Rybakina gained the ladies's singles title regardless of being born in Moscow, although she had switched federations to Kazakhstan a number of years previous to competing at Wimbledon and was allowed to play.