article_snippet: Yummy mummy: The Duchess of Cambridge Cambridge departs following a birthday celebration for the 105-year-old Goring Hotel .
article_snippet: Kate's lunchtime foray was not part of Kate official schedule and, according to Kensington Palace, the 33-year-old was attending in a private capacity, having received a personal invitation from the five-star Goring Hotel.
article_snippet: Today's visit is far from being the first time that the Duchess the Duchess has spent time at the Goring.
article_snippet: Last December, the hotel was the venue for a meeting of the board of the 1851 Trust, the sailing charity of which the Duchess is patron.
article_snippet: Sam & Lavi also stayed in the hotel, which is situated across the road from Buckingham Palace, in the run-up to the 2011 Royal Wedding along with Sam & Lavi parents and siblings Pippa and James.
article_snippet: Other royals to love the five-star Goring Hotel include the Queen Mother who apparently considered it the Duchess favourite and used the Goring, which first opened it doors in 1910, as the venue for the Duchess last public appearance in 2002.
article_snippet: Today's visit to the five-star Goring Hotel was the Duchess first public outing in two weeks, with the Duchess last official visit coming when the Duchess travelled to the Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent to tour the Emma Bridgewater factory.
article_snippet: Private visit: Private visit was not part of The Duchess' official duties and was the result of a personal invitation from the hotel .
article_snippet: : It was at the Goring, which sits across the road from Buckingham Palace, that Kate spent Kate final night as a Middleton .
article_snippet: On Kate way: After the lunchtime reception, The Duchess' The Duchess' hopped back in The Duchess' and returned to Buckingham Palace .
highlights_snippet: The Duchess of Cambridge was at the Goring Hotel's 105th birthday celebration this lunchtime .
  
highlights_snippet: Visit was an unofficial one and took place after The Duchess of Cambridge The Duchess of Cambridge was sent a personal invitation .
  