Kate now well enough to do the school run
THE Duchess of Cambridge is now well enough to take Prince George on the school run after missing his first day through illness, she revealed yesterday.
Mother-of-two Kate, four months pregnant with her third child, said she was just getting used to leaving George at the gate and realised teachers, support staff and parents were “all in it together”.
The Duchess, 35, was laid low by severe morning sickness when George, four, started at Thomas’s Battersea in September.
She told an audience of heads, academics and mental health professionals at the Place2Be School Leaders Forum: “It takes a whole community to help raise a child.
“We are all working to give children the emotional strength they need to face their futures.”
Kate is patron of Place2Be, a charity that promotes early intervention to build resilience in children and help with mental health problems. She wore a £480 plumcoloured Eloise tunic dress by Goat to the forum at the London HQ of financial services firm UBS. The company supports Place2Be and co-founded the Bridge Academy in Hackney, east London.
Bridge pupils are among the five per cent most disadvantaged in the country but its results are among the top 10 per cent.
Head boy Edmund Ross, 17, hailed Place2Be as “a frontline preventative service” for children.