The hair apparent! Kate gets cutting...
THE Duchess of Cambridge has turned hairdresser during lockdown – much to her children’s “horror” at their very special Royal Appointment with mum.
Kate revealed she grabs the scissors and sets about their overgrown locks during a chat with other parents about pandemic life.
She confessed to struggling to adapt, including to homeschooling – giving herself a score of five for maths – and to keeping Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte entertained.
Kate also paid tribute to her husband Prince William, calling him her “biggest support”.
The Duchess, 39, joined a discussion with three parents, whose children attend Roe Green Junior School in Brent, north London, alongside the school’s headteacher.
As part of a show and tell exercise during the video call, head Melissa Loosemore instructed the group to write down “one word that describes parenting during this pandemic”. The future queen wrote “exhausting”, echoed across the board. Kate said: “You’ve the day-today elements of being a parent. But I suppose during lockdown we have had to take on additional roles that perhaps others in our communities or our lives would have perhaps supported us and helped us with.
“I’ve become a hairdresser this lockdown, much to my children’s horror...seeing mum cutting hair.
“I have had to become a teacher. Personally, I feel pulled in so many different directions and you try your best with everything but at the end of the day I do feel exhausted.” Musadiq Subar, who is father to children aged 11 and nine, talked about what he struggles with most. Kate laughed as he spoke of learning Joe Wicks’ exercises. He said: “Joe Wicks did kill us all after the second day, but it’s been challenging in learning new things. “At the same time it’s been testing – and hats off to the teachers [and] how they do 30 children in a classroom for the whole day.” Nicole Seidemann, who has four children, described herself as “definitely a full-time teacher right now and struggling to do much else”.
Rajana Panchani, a mother of two boys, said she had been forced to adapt the goals for her children and herself as the homeschooling experience went on.
She added: “I used to start each day with a list of things I wanted to achieve. I shouldn’t have bothered because you can’t do all of those things anymore.”
Head Ms Loosemore told them: “You can only do the best you can do.Your mental health and wellbeing is important. It you are not OK, your children are not going to be OK.”