Kate Middleton Reveals That Prince Louis Has a Green Thumb
After months of video calls and virtual visits, the British royal family is beginning to ease out of lockdown. And this week, the Duchess of Cambridge made her second public outing since the global pandemic arrived in the UK.
As part of Children’s Hospice Week, which she and the Duchess of Cornwall kicked off in the video above, Kate helped to plant a garden at The Nook, one of the East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) facilities in Norfolk. Specifically, she contributed the plants she had bought at Fakenham Garden Centre last week, and worked with a volunteer gardener, staff at the facility, and two EACH families "to help create a space that would provide enjoyment for children and families, using sensory plants such as lavender, bay and rosemary."
And despite her sweet floral dress by the label Faithful The Brand, Kate wasn't afraid of getting a little messy while potting the greenery.
"She didn’t need the gardening gloves we offered her," Tracy Rennie, EACH's director of care, said, per ITV, "and even plunged her hands into the earth with that massive engagement ring on!"
The Duchess also opened up about her own youngest child, Prince Louis during the engagement, sharing how he has seemingly inherited her green thumb.
"The children are really enjoying growing their sunflowers, Louis's is winning so George is a little grumpy about that!" she said.
In tandem with the engagement, Kensington Palace released a statement from Kate honoring the staffs of children's hospices throughout the UK, and the families that need their services. Read it in full below:
This Children’s Hospice Week, I’d like to thank the amazing staff for all the work that you do in children’s hospices around the UK. The care and the nurture that you provide children and families in the most unimaginable circumstances is just awe inspiring.
I’d also like to pay tribute to all those families out there who are caring for and looking after a child with a life limiting illness. You do the most extraordinary job and I know it’s particularly hard at the moment so my thoughts go out to you all.
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