The Princess of Wales is travelling to Italy (Image: Getty)
Mamma Mia! The Princess of Wales is heading to Italy to take “her life’s work” to the next level, and she’s making quite the impressione!
Catherine will be jetting to the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy from May 13-14, where she will spend time with educators, parents, children and business leaders. It will be her first official solo visit abroad since February 2022, when she visited Copenhagen, Denmark, to learn from the country’s world-leading approach to early childhood development.
Kensington Palace has described the trip as a fact-finding mission, during which the Princess will explore the philosophical foundations of the Reggio Emilia approach.
The Reggio tactic emphasises nature as the third teacher alongside caregivers and the environment that surrounds the child, which is part of the reason Catherine has been drawn to the approach.
She has waxed lyrical about the idea that nature is vital for our growth, and given that her belief and the Reggio approach go so neatly hand in hand, it’s a match made in heaven.
Catherine last travelled overseas with work in December 2022, when she went to Boston, USA, with her husband for his Earthshot Prize award ceremony. She has also conducted two brief trips to Marseille, France, for the Rugby World Cup in the autumn of 2023 and went to the Crown Prince of Jordan’s wedding in Amman in June 2023; these are not considered official foreign tours.
She’s heading to Italy to quite literally see how they build better humans from day one, and I have a feeling she’s going to do a supreme job. Brava, Catherine, brava!
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