THERE were shades of Princess Diana yesterday as Kate stepped out in a rose-coloured outfit to continue her quest to help struggling children.
Kate wore an Alexander McQueen blazer and trousers with matching blouse, white belt and heels.
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Her suit stirred memories of her late mother-in-law who wore pink for a 1993 trip to Nepal.
But it was not just their choice of clothes that was similar.
Kate, 41, displayed the same sort of caring nature and easy rapport that was a hallmark of husband William’s mother.
Kate, who on Monday discussed mental health with children at the Chelsea Flower Show, said she was honoured to meet adults who had been through the care system.
She chatted to them about their challenging childhoods and said more needed to be done to celebrate roles of kinship carers — relatives who help parents in times of trouble.
Visiting London’s Foundling Museum, established in 1739 as a home for children whose mothers could not care for them, Kate also met graduates from its art and creative writing trainee programmes.
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Sitting with rapper Professor Green, who was brought up by his gran, she heard from a girl who acted as parent to her siblings until she was herself was taken into care last year at the age of 17.
Kate also talked to actress Lisa Faulkner, who has an adopted daughter, and artist Grayson Perry, a trustee for the museum.
She then visited the St Pancras Community Association in Camden, where she joined a support group session run by the charity Kinship and played with two three-year-old boys.
One of their grandmothers said afterwards: “The fact that she is so interested in children, particularly those of a younger age, is brilliant and it was nice to just sit here and chat about what is important to us.
“It’s important to give our children the tools to cope when they come to adolescence and she gets that.”
Kate this year launched Shaping Us, a project to highlight the significance of the formative years of a child’s upbringing.
Singer Professor Green, who has a son aged two, said: “Shaping Us is brilliant.
“Highlighting those formative years and the effect they have on the rest of your life, has become her life’s work.”
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