The Duchess of Cambridge visited the museum close to her Kensington Palace home. Kate Middleton dressed down to talk up the value of spending time outside on Tuesday. The Duchess of Cambridge donned a dusty rose jacket and jeans as she headed to the Natural History Museum, just a short drive from her London home of Kensington Palace, to promote the museum's Urban Nature Project.
Working alongside other museums and wildlife organizations across the U. At one point, Kate sat cross-legged on a wooden platform in the museum's garden to join some schoolchildren as they learned about spiders.
She also offered the children a home-crafted treat of honey from her Norfolk country home of Anmer Hall. Does it taste like flowers? As she left the museum, Kate fixed an acoustic monitoring device to a cherry tree in the Wildlife Garden. It will record ambient sound to help scientists to investigate patterns of bird, mammal and insect activity in the garden, her office said. The program is set to be launched later this year and not only dovetails with her and husband Prince William 's conservation work but also fits in with Kate's own desire to encourage greater appreciation and love for being outdoors.
In recent years, she has invested a lot of energy and time into campaigns to promote the benefits of playing outside and being in nature. Alongside the more permanent installation of the Back to Nature play garden at RHS Wisley, Kate has worked to highlight how a child's early development can be enriched in an environment that encourages active exploration and the opportunity to form and strengthen positive relationships.
Last week was a landmark one for Kate, 39, as she launched the next stage in her ongoing program to support and help parents, caretakers and children navigate kids' first five years of life.
