THE KATE OUTDOORS!
All-action Lakes trip for duchess
FROM abseiling to mountain biking, Kate really proved she was the Duchess of Daring yesterday during her visit to the Lake District.
With supreme confidence, she threw herself into the outdoor pursuits along with a group of air cadets.
The duchess sported £250 See By Chloe boots, a practical khaki-coloured Seeland puffer jacket and jeans.
She is Honorary Air Commandant of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets and her visit marked the reopening of the Windermere Adventure Training Centre following a £2million refit.
The centre will allow hundreds of cadets to visit the Lake District each year and take part in a wide variety of activities, building their confidence and leadership skills and achieving their Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
During the day, Kate, 39, asked the teenagers about the activities they took part in and how the pandemic had affected their mental health.
Itelouwa Odipe, 13, from Lancaster, said: ‘[Kate] was about to abseil and I was next in line so she asked me if I wanted to go before her. I was a bit scared so I said no. She said if I did she would meet me down there.
‘I think she was very kind. Even though she is a Royal Highness she still does things normal humans do.’
After her time with the cadets, Kate went on a boat trip with two of the ‘Windermere Children’, a group of 300 child Holocaust survivors who came to stay in the Lake District in 1945.
The group had been liberated from the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech town of Terezin.