The Princess of Wales also revealed a new look
The Prince and Princess of Wales during their visit to the Natural History Museum’s newly transformed gardens in London.(Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire )
The Prince and Princess of Wales showed their kind and caring side during an outing at the Natural History Museum’s gardens on Thursday as they sheltered a group of schoolchildren from a downpour.
Kate’s new lighter hairstyle was on display for the first time at the South Kensington attraction alongside husband William as they met up with a group of primary school children studying the garden’s pond.
The museum’s gardens were opened in July 2024 and are regularly used as a teaching, research and recreational resource with children from schools all over London invited to learn about the plant and wildlife.
When a deluge fell a few minutes after the couple arrived, Kate held up her umbrella over some of the youngsters and told the teachers: “Let them go in, let’s take them inside, it’s pouring.”
The Princess of Wales during a visit to the Natural History Museum’s newly transformed gardens in London.(Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire )
The children, from Kender Primary school in New Cross, were showing off the aquatic life they had gathered while pond dipping in the nature discovery garden.
Beverley Brown, 44, assistant head teacher from the school, said after the visit: “We’d been waiting for the sessions to start and the children were excited, we went across and as we moved it started to rain.
“Prince William gallantly held his umbrella over an adult and child and Princess Kate was in amongst us saying ‘Let them go in, let’s take them inside, it’s pouring’.”
A wet weather plan saw William and Kate join the children in an impromptu classroom where the youngsters tried to place specimens of woodlice, spiders and grasshoppers encased in small plastic blocks in their right habitats.
The Prince and Princess of Wales during their visit to the Natural History Museum’s newly transformed gardens in London.(Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire )
When a museum staff member asked the children for their answers the princess said with a smile “we decided, we find spiders everywhere”.
Ms Brown said about William and Kate: “It was a really amazing experience for the children, they were talking to them non-stop throughout about the mini beasts.
“Prince William was laughing because some of the children were making Jenga blocks (from the specimens).”