The Countess already has a long association with the Journalists’ Charity, having opened its new care home, Pickering House in Dorking, in 2007.
It also celebrates an enduring royal link with the charity going back a century and a half to the reign of Queen Victoria.
In May this year The Queen, patron of the Journalists’ Charity, attended with The Duke of Edinburgh a special 150th anniversary celebration at Stationers’ Hall in London, just a stone’s throw from Fleet Street.
London Press Club Ball co-chairmen Robert Jobson and Ray Massey said: “It is a great honour to have HRH The Countess of Wessex attend this year’s Ball which celebrates two landmark anniversaries for such a good cause.”
The Ball is taking place on Thursday October 9 at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand.
Tickets for the Ball have already sold out in record time thanks to unprecedented demand, says the Journalists’ Charity.
The Journalists’ Charity is a leading charity for all journalists in need. It was created 150 years ago by a group of journalists who met in a pub near Fleet Street and its founding members included Charles Dickens. It was granted its Royal Charter in 1890 and is still run by journalists for journalists.
