Ammon News - The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, has been photographed for the first time since undergoing abdominal surgery.

Kate has not been seen since late December, when she was pictured on a Christmas Day walk with other members of the Royal Family in Sandringham, Norfolk.

The 42-year-old future queen was admitted to the London Clinic - the private hospital where the King underwent treatment for an enlarged prostate - for a planned operation on 16 January.

Now US celebrity news site TMZ has published a picture of the princess which it says was taken near Windsor Castle on Monday.

Kate wore dark sunglasses and sat in the passenger seat of a black Audi which was being driven by her mother, Carole Middleton.

The photo is understood to have been taken by unauthorised paparazzi.

It comes as Kate's uncle Gary Goldsmith entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Monday night.

Sky News