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Kate Middleton is stepping out to support one of her longest-standing causes, kids’ mental healthThe Princess of Wales visited the charity Anna Freud in London on Nov. 27It has been 10 years since her first visit to Anna Freud, and she became the royal patron in 2016
Kate Middleton is back at a mental health charity that has been a near-constant in her royal work.
The Princess of Wales, 43, visited Anna Freud to continue pushing the message that what happens in the first years of a young child’s life has a profound influence.
Princess Kate stepped out in North London early on Nov. 27 to support Anna Freud’s new tie-in with her Centre for Early Childhood, which will boost the skills of health visitors, the teams who support women in the days and weeks after childbirth in the U.K. The project will help those professionals center their work around early social and emotional development.
The Princess of Wales first visited Anna Freud, which has a mission to help children develop their emotional and mental health, in September 2015. She became its patron a year later. It was the mental health of children and families and intervening to tackle it as early as possible that was the grounding for her next step into championing the early years.
Princess Kate being greeted as she arrives at Anna Freud charity, in London, on Nov. 27, 2025.
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Princess Kate’s visit follows the speech she made at the Future Workforce Summit on Nov. 19, where she talked about the importance of “consistent, nurturing relationships which create the grounded and meaningful environments around a child.”
Kate added last week, “It is this texture, the weave of love, which forms a child’s emotional world and becomes the foundation, the very fabric of resilience and belonging.”
The Princess of Wales as she arrived at Anna Freud, in London, on Nov. 27, 2025.
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The Princess of Wales began her visit by meeting the charity’s Chief Executive, Professor Eamon McCrory, who talked to her about how Anna Freud is working to improve mental health care for babies, children and young people through science and clinical innovation. The charity is collaborating with Kate’s Centre for Early Childhood on an ambitious development program, in partnership with the U.K.’s Institute of Health Visiting.
Anna Freud will design a training program to support public health professionals who support new mothers and other early years workers who help parents, their babies and young children.
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She then joined some roundtable discussions with experts from Anna Freud, young people, educators and charity supporters to talk about how to create communities where strong relationships can flourish, as well as how children and young people’s well-being can be better supported.