The of Wales made a surprise appearance at the first day of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show, joining London school pupils for the annual event’s first Children’s Picnic.
Kate met youngsters from ten schools taking part in the RHS’s Campaign for School Gardening as they sat down to eat, before visiting three of this year’s show gardens with them. The Children’s Picnic, which is planned to be an annual event, was inspired by a conversation she had with the RHS in 2019 about involving more children in the show, following the success of her Back to Nature Garden.
Looking elegant in a pink dress by Me+Em, the mother of three sat on a picnic blanket with children from St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School in Hammersmith, asking: “Are any of you keen gardeners? Do you get the chance to plant things at school?
“What sort of things do you
