She puts her family at the heart of everything she does, and last week the Princess of Wales took a trip down memory lane as she visited a firm to which she has a close personal connection.
Kate called at a fabric company once owned by her ancestors, wearing a Burberry trouser suit as she shone a spotlight on British industry.
At the mill run by AW Hainsworth, in Pudsey, near Leeds, Kate heard how the firm had bought out her family’s business, William Lupton & Co, in 1958.