The Princess of Wales has a gorgeous new look
Kate Middleton has gone blonde…sort of.
The Princess of Wales, along with Prince William, are at the Natural History Museum in Central London today to take a tour of the gardens in their first engagement since their summer holiday. They shook hands outside the museum before taking a tour in the rain with schoolchildren.
Catherine didn’t let the wet weather bother her, smiling under her umbrella as she chatted with the children.
And, perhaps most noticeably, she’s got new honey blonde hair.
The royal visit to one of London’s most popular museums comes the day after the new term began for the couple’s children, who all attend the private Lambrook School near Ascot in Berkshire.
William and Kate and their family were last seen in public driving to church close to Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire towards the end of August.
During their visit on Thursday, the prince and princess will meet children taking part in learning programmes in the attraction’s gardens, aimed at helping them connect with nature and boost biodiversity in central London.
Kate has spoken in the past about the importance of children spending time in the natural world, and she helped create the family-friendly Back To Nature play garden that was exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2019.
She also urged society to “reconnect to nature and celebrate a new dawn within our hearts” in a voiceover for Spring, the first of her series of social media videos celebrating the seasons released earlier this year.
The museum gardens opened in 2024 featuring grassland, wetland and woodland habitats, and are said to serve as a living laboratory where visitors and scientists can identify and monitor wildlife in an urban environment.
During their visit, William and Kate will also be shown how cutting-edge technology is being used in the garden to inform the museum’s conservation and research biodiversity projects.
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