Princess Catherine dazzles in appearance at Chelsea Flower Show
The Princess of Wales has opened up about life in the royal family during a chat with kids at one of her favourite events. See the video.
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The Princess of Wales has given a candid five-word reply when asked by a little girl about life in the royal family during a surprise appearance at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Princess Catherine stunned onlookers in a pink silk ME+EM shirt dress as she turned up unannounced at the event, which is organised by the Royal Horticultural Society.
The radiant Princess joined school pupils at the event’s first ever Children’s Picnic, where she she was asked by a little girl what it was like being a Princess.
A smiling Catherine replied to the child: “You have to work hard”.
Another child asked the Princess if she made the law. A smiling Catherine replied: “The Prime Minister makes the laws.”
The Princess of Wales met children from 10 schools taking part in the RHS Campaign for School Gardening as they sat down to eat, before visiting three of the event’s famed Show Gardens with them.
Hello! magazine reported that the Princess sat down on a picnic blanket with children from St Augustine’s Primary School in Hammersmith.
She asked them: “Are any of you keen gardeners? Do you get the chance to plant things at school? What sort of things do you grow and then do you get to eat them?”
The royal also offered the children a glimpse of her youngest child Prince Louis’ school life, saying he has been growing broad beans in his school’s kitchen garden.
The royal discussed growing various vegetables and herbs and said: “There’s a plant that smells like chocolate. I remember my Granny showing me that when I was little. It has very dark leaves and you rub it and it smells like chocolate.”
She reinforced the importance of spending time outdoors, telling the children: “It’s so good for our bodies and our minds.”
She then joined another group to discuss flowers and plants, admitting that: “Lots of the names are in Latin and I can never remember them.”
Princess Catherine interacted with different groups of schoolchildren and invited one group to guess her favourite colour, which they correctly guessed as green.
Children hoping for an autograph from the future queen were disappointed, however.
“I can’t write my name,” Princess Catherine told them, “but I can draw.” She reportedly made sketches for some of the children.
“My name’s Catherine. I’m not allowed to write my signature, it’s just one of those rules.”
The Chelsea Flower Show is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London.
The Children’s Picnic, which will proceed annually, started as an initiative of the Princess in 2019 when she unveiled her Back to Nature Garden and suggested to organisers that children should become involved for the first time in the event’s 110-year history.
The Princess stopped by a group of Chelsea pensioners who were eating chargrilled peas with herbs made by chefs in the kitchen garden with one diner joking the food wasn’t memorable but the royal was.
“The peas are forgettable – you are not,” he said. “I’d better say the peas were wonderful but it was fantastic to meet the future Queen.”
KATE GETS BACK TO NATURE
It comes after Catherine she posted an unrecognisable photo of herself dressed head to toe in a beekeeper’s outfit, as the Prince Wales was filmed for an Instagram reel rowing with a crew for Mental Health Awareness Week.
The Princess was seen lifting part of a bee hive to collect honey in a picture released to mark World Bee Day on Saturday.
The snap by royal photographer Matt Porteous was taken last summer at Kate and William’s home, Anmer Hall, Norfolk.
It was posted to Porteous’s and the royals’s official Instagram accounts online with the Prince and Princess of Wales’s caption reading: “We are buzzing about #WorldBeeDay.
“Bees are a vital part of our ecosystem and today is a great opportunity to raise awareness of the role they play in keeping people and the planet healthy.”
Buckingham Palace is home to four beehives. There are two hives in Clarence House’s garden, according to The Sun. The hives produced more than 300 jars of honey last year.
The royal family has a long history of beekeeping.
In 2020, while she was Duchess of Cornwall, Queen Camilla became president of the charity Bees For Development which aims to reduce global poverty and improve biodiversity through training beekeepers.
On Sunday, Prince William posted a reel showing him rowing with a crew of the HMS Oardacious, and chatting about the importance of mental health.
The caption to the video said it was “a very important conversation about mental health.
“For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek we headed out onto the water, chatting everything from teamwork to food rations and just what it takes to look after your mental health when rowing across the Atlantic.”
Instagram followers praised the Prince’s fitness level as well as his commitment to a worthy cause.
“Thank you for making mental health a priority,” said one.
“His mother would be extremely proud of (W) ills. He’s done her proud”, posted another.
Earlier in the week, the Princess of Wales delighted wellwishers with a walkabout after a charity visit for the Mental Health Foundation’s Wear It Green awareness day.
At the Anna Freud Centre, she praised a new “anxiety toolkit” the research organisation developed after collaborating with schoolkids.
She then greeted crowds outside in central London, and told them: “I’m leaving feeling inspired — I’ve learned lots from young people.”
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