The Princess of Wales is visiting a children’s mental health charity in London today and as she arrived beaming to royal fans and showing off her lighter hair colour in her signature style
Princess Kate has been snapped beaming as she arrived at a children’s mental health charity today in London. The Princess of Wales to re-wear a fan favourite outfit, as she donned a custom-made version of a blue houndstooth Emilia Wickstead dress which she’d had altered to add sleeves. Kate previously wore the dress during a trip to the US in 2022, when she attended Harvard University in Boston.
Kate also showed off her sun-kissed hair which she styled in her signature loose waves. At last week’s Royal Variety Performance, she spoke abut her lighter tresses with actress Su Pollard, as the princess admitted: “It used to be brown, but it’s gone light in the sunshine.”
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Kate is visiting children’s mental health charity Anna Freud, of which she is patron, to discuss the vital role of relationships and connection in shaping babies, children and young people’s future life outcomes.
The Princess of Wales’ visit comes as The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood has launched a new project with Anna Freud to enhance the skills of health professionals to support early social and emotional development. During the visit, Kate will meet the charity’s Chief Executive, Professor Eamon McCrory, and discuss how Anna Freud is transforming mental health care for babies, children and young people through science, collaboration and clinical innovation.
She will also be meeting families who are working with Anna Freud and the Institute of Health Visitors to shape the new initiative.
This visit comes a week after the Princess’s speech at the Future Workforce Summit, where she spoke of the importance of consistent, nurturing relationships to create the grounded and meaningful environments a child needs to thrive. During her first public speech in two years, Kate called on business leaders to prioritise “time and tenderness just as much as productivity and success”.
She told a gathering of senior executives in the City of London that “profitability” and making a “positive impact” are not “incompatible”, at the summit hosted by her Royal Foundation to drive action and investment in the early years development of children.
Delivering the summit’s opening speech, Kate told guests her passion for promoting early years, described in the past as her “life’s work”, stemmed from the “essential truth” that “the love we feel in our earliest years fundamentally shapes who we become and how we thrive as adults”.
She went on to say: “A loving home ultimately teaches us how to love and how to care, but every environment has the potential to shape our hearts. Every one of you interacts with your own environment; a home, a family, a business, a workforce, a community. These are the ecosystems that you yourselves help to weave.”
Anna Freud, of which Kate has been Patron since 2016, is the leading organisation in the UK for evidence-based research and training on children, young people and families’ mental health. Anna Freud’s mission is to create a world where all children and young people are able to achieve their full potential; where they and their families get support that is designed with their input, available at the right time, and meets their needs, so that they can develop their emotional and mental health.
