Children’s hospice chief hails caring Kate

Duchess visits hospice

The Duchess of Cambridge has a gift for supporting grieving families and helps create cherished memories for them, according to a hospice chief.

Kate, 38, comforted families during a visit to East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices’ The Nook last week and took plants and flowers to make a new garden for them.

Now the organisation’s chief executive, Tracey Rennie, has described the impact the royal’s visit had on young patients and their families. She said: “She has always been the same, she’s been incredibly friendly, incredibly open, caring.

“She is just at ease talking to a family with a child who has a really profound disability to a child with a brother and sister that might be running around, or even a newly bereaved family that is still coming to terms with a child dying.

“She always has a positive impact on the conversation she has with families, and they will never forget that for the rest of their lives. Without her realising, she creates really precious memories for families.”

Kate, a mother of three, has been Royal Patron of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices since 2012.

Ms Rennie added: “It really started out from the Duchess just wanting to understand more about children’s hospices and children’s hospice care.”