Here is a quick round up of Kate news for this past week. Whilst Kate did not accompany Prince William and his grandmother on the Queen’s Royal Week in Scotland, Kate was honoured with a new appointment by the Queen. She is to become the sponsor of a new Royal Navy Battleship HMS Glasgow that is currently being built at the BAE Systems’ shipyard in Govan, close to Glasgow in Scotland. Later that same day we got to see William, Kate and Prince George attend at Wembley Stadium in London to...

In the spirit of unity and to honour what would have been the 60th Birthday of the late Diana, Princess of Wales,  this same episode covering the unveiling of William's  and Harry's statue in honour of their mother will air on both my Kind thoughts for Meghan Markle and Kind thoughts for Kate Middleton podcasts.   Please keep listening for future podcasts on all things Meghan, and Harry and Kate and William and don't forget to rate and to subscribe to my podcasts!

On day one of this year’s Royal Week or Holyrood Week in Scotland, Prince William, no doubt on his best behaviour,  accompanied the Queen to a couple of engagements. First up was a visit to open new production facilities in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, at soft drinks manufacturer A.G. Barr of Glasgow, or Barr’s as it is commonly known, who make the iconic Scottish carbonated soft drink, IRN-BRU, often described as " Scotland 's other national drink" (after Scotch whisky) a product that was...

In the week that Prince William turned 39, with William busy watching the Euro 2021 football games, Kate was keeping her eyes on her work. In her role as Royal Patron of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice or EACH, a role she has had since 2012, Kate wrote a letter to kick start what is Children’s Hospice Week. In her letter Kate thanked all of the UK’s 54 children’s hospices and what she called their incredible staff and the life-changing care that these hospices provides.  Kate wrote of how...

After sending out teasers all week, at midnight UK time on June 17th 2021 Kate’s BIG news was officially released stating that hers and William’s foundation had launched The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood with the aim to drive awareness of and action on the impact of the early years. The centre will focus on three key areas: research; developing new solutions with public and private voluntary sectors; and campaigns to raise awareness.  The project already has its own  website...

Dr. Jill Biden has joined the US President on his trip to the UK for the G7 summit. The pair will meet with the Queen and join her for tea at Windsor castle.  Of particular interest to fans of Kate, was a joint engagement when she and Dr. Jill Biden visited elementary school pupils at the Connor Downs Academy near to the West Cornish town of Hayle.  Ms. Biden who of course is a teacher herself and has a doctorate of education,  was extremely comfortable during the visit. The duo met children...

It was Children, Children and more Children as far as Kate & William’s last Day in Scotland on their Royal Tour. The couple stayed in and around the Edinburgh area for another active and mostly fun filled day.  You got the sense that Kate and William had been told to keep the whole week fairly light and not too serious.  Their final day started with a visit to Starbank Park in Edinburgh to hear about the work of an organization called Fields In Trust UK.  Working all across the UK, ...

Towards the end of their whirlwind tour of Scotland, Kate and William carried out engagements in the Orkney Islands, before travelling back down the East coast of Scotland to St. Andrews and then back to Edinburgh. Their engagements on this leg of their tour of Scotland included: Formally opening the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in the Orkneys.A visit to Orkney's European Marine Energy Centre.Meeting staff and clients of the Fife Young Carers organization (and a spot of land /sand yachting...

Hear more about Prince William’s solo section of his and Kate’s Royal visit to Scotland,  that saw William meeting with Edinburgh based organizations connected with the Church of Scotland (Kirk). Next,  on Day 4 of the week’s visit,  Kate joined William and together they visited various social care charites, with Kate turning her hand to a spot of music production at one of stops. William was not impressed. William and Kate visited Turning Point Scotland, the Scottish Violence Reduction...

Prince William went solo for the first part of his & Kate’s Royal visit to Scotland, doing what a lot of hubbies do when away from the kids and the wife for “work” – he did some work, followed by a kick around on the football pitch, followed by drinks down the pub and watching the game on the TV,  and ending off with a drive around a racetrack. OK I am being a tad sexist but in a nutshell, this is what William did on the first two days of his visit to Scotland. Each year, The Queen...

The Royals, like the rest of us, are keen to escape lockdown with Kate finally able to complete a visit to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, an engagement that has been cancelled on three previous occasions because of COVID.  Kate’s visit took in the Raphael Cartoons and an exhibition about the children’s story Alice in Wonderland. Called - Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser,  the exhibit has about 300 objects showing the history from the book’s creation over 158 years ago and showing us how...

Kate & William paired up to visit three organizations located in Wolverhampton,  in England's West Midlands,  as part of UK Mental Health Awareness Week.  The organizations that they visited, focus on motivating and inspiring young people to transform their lives. Their day started off with a visit to a youth organization called The Way Youth Zone, part of the On Side Youth Zones which is a national charity with a mission to build a network of affordable, high quality Youth Zones,  across...

Kate and William have made some changes to their Instagram Account and also launched their own YouTube Channel,  kicking things off with a short little video showing them at some of their public engagements from 2019 to date,  also including a couple of informal moments between them. The video starts with William telling Kate as they sit in front of a camera "Be careful what you say now, because these guys are filming everything."  Later on,  Kate can be heard giving William advice on how to...

In his role as President of the UK Football Association Prince William and Kate are joining the entire football community and other UK sportsmen and women in a social media boycott this weekend.  Why is there a social media boycott and what is the aim of this particular campaign?  The focus of this weekend’s initiative is narrow in that its aim is to show solidarity against racism being experienced by football players - predominantly in the UK football Premier League. The move is a bid to...

In the week that Kate & Prince William celebrated their 10th Wedding Anniversary they went out and about on visits in County Durham in the North East of England. They stopped off at the Cheesy Waffles Project,   one of the charities that benefitted from donations made in lieu of wedding gifts to Kate and William’s one-million-pound Royal Wedding Charitable Gift Fund.  Kate, who was a keen field hockey player when at school, burst into peels of laughter when she tried to whack a golf ball...

Every family has one. Not quite a black sheep but certainly a relative that my dad would say ‘has a lot of character’.  In Kate’s case this relative would be her Uncle Gary Goldsmith. Never one to shy away from speaking to the tabloids, Kate’s four...

Kate and William stepped out for their first public engagement following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh and in doing so paid tribute to Prince Phillip. Kate and William visited with an East London branch of the UK Air Cadets. In December 2015 Prince...

In the spirit of unity to honour the passing of Prince Phillip,  I am airing this same short little episode on my Kind thoughts for Kate Middleton and Kind Thoughts for Meghan Markle podcasts. It was so good to see William and Harry stand alongside one...

Kate and William and other members of the Royal Family have cancelled some of their planned public engagements, out of respect to the late Duke of Edinburgh who passed away on April 9th. Per the Royal Family UK website, The Queen approved the UK Prime...

Kate has come a long way since her marriage to Prince William. April 29th 2021 will mark their 10th (Tin) wedding anniversary. Residents in the UK just got to see a new ITV documentary affectionately called "The Day Will and Kate Got Married" which...

The Hold Still project was launched by the Duchess of Cambridge in her role as Patron of the UK National Portrait Gallery. It saw people of all ages from all over Britain submitting photographs about the effect of the pandemic on their lives. Kate felt...

Kate and William participated in the UK’s National Day of Reflection, taking place on what was the anniversary of the first UK lockdown, and organized to reflect on Brit’s collective loss, to support those who've been bereaved, and to hope for a...

Kate and William joined in worldwide festivities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Like everything else right now their plans had to be changed around Coivd-19 restrictions. Typically on St. Patrick’s Day we would see Kate and William get into the spirit...

Something light and fluffy to cheer us all up. This past weekend was Mother’s Day in the UK. George, Charlotte and Louis  were busy little bees ahead of Mother’s Day.  Not only had they made cards in honour of the late Princess Diana (Granny Diana)  but...

Sometimes it is low key acts that can have a big impact. This was the case today when the Duchess of Cambridge visited Clapham Common in South London with Kate making a private visit and intermingling with members of the public at an open air bandstand...