Princess Kate stepped out in Windsor on Thursday morning with the US First Lady to carry out an important engagement with the Scouts. The Princess, who has been the joint President of the Scouts since 2020, was suitably dressed as she arrived in Frogmore Gardens with Melania Trump for an engagement with members of the Scouts’ Squirrels programme.
The pair were met by Chief Scout Dwayne Fields, who introduced them to two groups of Squirrels while they took part in activities to achieve their ‘Go Wild’ badge. Elsewhere during the engagement, the Princess of Wales and the First Lady will join the children to build a bug hotel, before trying their hand at leaf printing using fallen leaves which have been collected from the gardens.
The Scouts have played an important role in the Princess’s work over the years. In April, she visited the Lake District to learn more about how spending time in nature can help us deepen our connections with ourselves and each other.
After they enjoy the activities, Dwayne, the Princess and the First Lady will carry out a badge presentation for the young Squirrels and later host a picnic in the gardens.
As a special treat, the Princess has organised special packed lunches for the children. Each child will get to try sandwiches containing honey made by the Princess of Wales herself from the Wales family’s hives at Anmer Hall.
As well as this, the First Lady will gift a jar of White House honey to each of the youngsters as a special way to remember the day.
The wellbeing of young children is very important to both the Princess and the First Lady. The Princess has long been passionate about the power of encouraging young people to experience the natural world and has ensured it is a key focus of many of her visits.
Earlier this year, the Princess joined Dwayne and a group of Scouts on the shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District to learn more about how spending time in nature can help us to grow our connections while fostering a keen sense of empathy, resilience and belonging.
In a video released at the time, Kate said: “I find it a very spiritual and very intense emotional reconnection I suppose, these environments.
“Not everyone has that same relationship perhaps with nature, but it is so, therefore meaningful for me as a place to balance and find a sort of sense of peace and reconnection in what is otherwise a very busy world.”
