According to professional lip reader Nicola Hickling, who spoke to The Sun, Sophie asked the Princess of Wales "you like a beard?" Kate allegedly went ahead and responded with "I find it quite rousing" and Sophie said "you're all better now" as they both laughed.

The Princess of Wales appeared alongside Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, on Buckingham Palace's balcony on Sunday

Kate Middleton and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, were seen chatting on the balcony of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office during the Remembrance Sunday service in London

On Saturday night, Kate Middleton made her first public appearance since announcing she had finished preventative treatment for cancer – and this year’s Festival of Remembrance was a particularly emotional event with several nods to Princess Diana.

Princess Kate Middleton joined her husband Prince William and King Charles III at the annual Remembrance Sunday service in London on Sunday, November 10. This was one of her first major appearances since completing cancer treatment.

Kate, the Princess of Wales, and the Duchess of Edinburgh were among the senior royals attending the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall today