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At a very special royal event this morning: I haven’t skipped round a maypole since I was 11! Great fun! And stay tuned for the royal arrival @RHSWisley and more details...
Kate #Duchessofcambridge will arrive shortly at @RHSWisley to officially open her “Back to Nature Garden” and participate in a festival to which she’s invited many of the people & charities she’s met through her Early Years’ work 
Kate arrives @RHSWisley in Emilia Wickstead
#Kate is inspecting her “Back to Nature” garden @RHSWisley where she’ll plant a tree. Many of the elements of her Chelsea & Hampton Court garden such as the hollow tree trunks, tree house, swings & a new bouncing forest are incorporated!! 🌳🌲🌸
Video: looks like the school kids are loving Kate’s new @rhswisley “Back to Nature” garden
#Kate #DuchessofCambridge arrives on a tractor (with lots of excited kids) to make a speech @RHSWisley. She was in full mum mode telling the kids to thank the tractor driver!
Kate arrived with top cook & baker Mary Berry, who is also a patron of @RHSWisley. She made sure she thanked the tractor driver: “thank you: the kiddies loved it!” 🚜🌲🌳🌸
Video: Kate made a speech about how it takes “a village to raise a child” and thanked @RHSWisley for asking her to design a garden for them.
Kate has great fun chatting with some of the kids at the “Back to Nature” festival. Little Mathilda Griffiths, 15 months, caught her eye and she told mum Sarah: “My little boy [Louis] loves smelling the flowers & being out in the garden.”
I was really struck by how much more confident Kate is at public speaking. Today’s engagement was very her, and she was in her relaxed element, but I remember when her elocution lessons left her with strangled vowels & v nervous delivery. Lovely job today @RHSWisley
