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The Duchess of Sussex and Kate will meet some of the Championships’ ball boys and ball girls, and junior players.
This is their first engagement together, without their husbands Prince Harry and Prince William.
The pair also met with former Wimbledon Ladies Champions during a lunch before the final starts.
This girls’ day out is one of a handful of instances Kate, who gave birth to Prince Louis just 12 weeks ago, will break her maternity leave agreement.
The mother-of-three will also be attending the men’s singles the day after with husband Prince William.
For Meghan this comes days after her two-day tour of Ireland, which was her first tour out the UK with her new husband Prince Harry.
While Meghan attended Wimbledon two years ago as a guest of Ralph Lauren, she has not yet made an appearance in the royal box this year.
After Williams won her semi-final match on Wednesday, she praised her “wonderful” friendship with Meghan.
During the post-match press conference the tennis ace said: “Every year for a couple years she comes out to Wimbledon and has supported me.
“Now she’s supporting me in a different role, but our friendship is still exactly the same.”
Meghan Markle has been pictured at Wimbledon on several occasions in the past, including in the summer of 2016, the summer in which she is thought to have met Prince Harry for the first time.
Ms Williams continued: “We have always supported each other, just been there for each other through a lot.
“I look forward to it.”
It comes almost two months after she was at Prince Harry and Meghan’s Royal Wedding in Windsor with her husband Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian.
The Duchess of Sussex and Williams met in 2010 at the Super Bowl and reportedly “hit it off immediately”.
Writing on her former blog, The Tig, the Duchess of Sussex said: “Taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff.”
The 36-year-old former champion is up against Germany’s Angelique Kerber to try and win her eighth singles title.
Williams gave birth 10 months ago and is the first mother to reach the last round of the tournament since Australian Evonne Goolagong in 1980.
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