Over the past few years, Kate Middleton has quickly become one of the world’s most visible spokespeople for developmental neurology.
she cohosted a symposium at the Royal Society of Medicine. It’s telling that the coverage at the time highlighted her green dress and a small comment in her keynote speech—“Duchess of Cambridge: teenagers should be taught parenting skills,” read a headline in the
—without fully understanding the expertise she had already gathered on the subject. A fully formed future queen had arrived, and few noticed.a 2020 podcast interview where she said she often feels mom guilt—it’s notable that her involvement in these issues didn’t necessarily arise from her own experiences. In a 2019 speech at a gala for Action on Addiction, she mentioned that her interest in early childhood came because of the encounters she had in those first years of royal engagements, including during her earliest patronages.
By engaging with children directly during events and injecting a little glamour into even the drabbest hospitals, Kate has already proven that she has mastered the Diana playbook for charity appearances, and the duchess is not the first consort-in-training to take on patronages relating to women’s issues and education. That said, it is unusual that Kate put in the effort to be so familiar with the relevant science and research.
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