The Duchess of Cambridge doesn’t have many “favorite” patronages. Well, she doesn’t have many patronages at all, but there aren’t many she visits consistently. She’s a fan of the National Portrait Gallery, of course, and she’s probably done the most work with them in recent years. One of Kate’s first patronages was EACH, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. She averages maybe two visits or events with EACH every year. Incidentially, the photos we always use of Kate and William with Rose Hanbury? Those are from an EACH benefit hosted by Rose and her husband at Houghton Hall. Yes, Rose is very involved with EACH too. Just FYI.
Anyway, I looked it up and the last time Kate did anything with or for EACH was literally one year ago exactly. Yes, it’s time for the annual Children’s Hospice Week. Last year, Kate went tan and maskless to a hospice, planted a tree and breathed on sick kids. What’s in store for us this year? Well, it looks like EACH is going to have to make due with Kate…um, writing a letter of support.
Kate Middleton and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are raising awareness for Children’s Hospice Week following an “especially tough and frightening” year for families with vulnerable kids.
Kate, the royal patron of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), asked everyone to join her “in thanking the U.K.’s 54 children’s hospices and their incredible staff for the life-changing care they provide” in a letter to mark the week.
“The last year has been a difficult one for everyone, and especially tough and frightening for families with seriously ill children,” she said. “Many started shielding long before others, worrying about the pandemic and what it might mean for their child.”
The theme for this year’s Children’s Hospice Week is “Pushed to the Limits,” recognizing how hard the past year has been for these families.
“Children’s hospices are a lifeline, and I have been privileged to see first-hand the remarkable work they do,” Kate, 39, continued. “They give families the care and time they need to make treasured lifelong memories – the chance to be parents, not carers. Vitally, they are also there when it is time to say goodbye, making sure a family has privacy and dignity so they can grieve together, and are able to receive support for as long as they need it.”
You can read Kate’s letter here at EACH. They just posted a copy of the letter with the Kensington Palace letterhead, and Kate’s signature. I’d be willing to bet that staffers wrote the letter and Kate signed it. That counts as an event, right?
Anyway, just pointing out that Kate really does so little for or with her existing patronages, yet she has all the time in the world to create the Keen Buttons and Early Years Research Institute, where she will be keen, drown herself in buttons and “research” child development. Until she gets bored, I guess. I also wonder what happened to Heads Together and how the Cambridges schemed to put all of their existing patronages in one place so they could presumably do less work? Whatever happened to that?
Our Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge, has marked the start of #ChildrensHospiceWeek by sending a personal message of support to celebrate the vital work we do for children and families.
Read the full message here: https://t.co/JwGbMb68kI@KensingtonRoyal pic.twitter.com/ALaIOARIHm— EACH (@EACH_hospices) June 21, 2021
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, KP social media.
I mean FFS Camilla actually visited a children’s hospice. Kate wrote a letter?
Keen buttons is house shopping, you all need to get your priorities in order. Lol. Houses, then button buying then Botox. Then hair appointment and if I have time i will get my people to draft a keen letter which I will sign.
If the one thing this pandemic has confirmed is that people need human contact and yet she decides to send a letter written by staff to the children who are in the most need of personal interaction and affection.
😐
At least she didn’t breathe on them.
Say what you want about Camilla but she is a working royal and she does an amazing job for supporting women victim of domestic abuse.
More like she SIGNED a letter.
Didn’t one of the EACH facilities close due to lack of funding?
How much can you possibly learn from going once a year for 30 minutes tops? Keen needs to be keener .
Just visit or send a beautiful goodie bags.
Like the bags of 3 cookies that they posted last year to a bunch of patronages? Yes, a letter and a bag of 3 cookies would have been lovely of Keen to be more keen!
This was a nice dress and a good look on her. I’m afraid she’s lost more weight since then.
Also I can see every rib on her chest in that dress, it’s scary
Yes, it didn’t see it until you pointed it out!! She has a serious problem with her weight!! And buttons. I wonder if there is a support group for giving up buttons. Maybe that could be her next big, huge initiative!!
Bone sorry
I read the letter and I thought why couldn’t she have done a video saying what did in the letter? She could given the video to EACH to post on their website and on social media. I guess that would have been too much work. And about the new research centre, how come KP didn’t announce who was going to run it? Usually when a new organisation is set up, the Head, is also introduced to the public. It shows that Kate is not really interested in this project and she just felt she needed to do something to show people that she is working.
My thought too. Plus she could’ve posted it on her YouTube channel and the royal family account, etc.
“Meghan wrote something for that cat and dog place, now I wanna look like I can write something, too! Now now now now now!” *wicker platform sandals stamping the ground*
Exactly what I thought when I saw the headline, @MangoAngelesque.
I guess Kate thought she had to do something after Meghan’s recent Mayhew forward info came out.
“Raising awareness” is such a bullsh*t phrase, especially coming from Kate, who thinks the concept begins and ends with a single display of buttons.
This woman has got to be the dumbest chick on the planet Meghan sent a letter to mayhew because she is in another country and on martenity leave what’s this ladies excuse. Oh that’s right she is shopping fir houses next to mummy because things didn’t work out with Willy billy. Sort yourself out love.
“and breathed on sick kids”
You just gave me the mental image of Kate breathing on new born babies to get the smell. It will haunt me forever.
I didn’t read because IDC about Kate AT ALL, but I was struck by the thumbnail on the main page and by the photos in the article how much she looks like Carole. Not in a good way, Carole looks pretty good for her age, but Kate is younger than me and looks WEATHERED in natural light. Chica needs a surface peel, a gallon of water, and to time-travel to tell her 20 y/o self to wear sunscreen and quit smoking…
She’s at the inevitable “face or ass” point we all get to , and she has not chosen “face.”
I don’t understand – how does sending a letter to EACH raise awareness for EACH. And is she asking EACH to join her in congratulating EACH?
Could she not have used a more appropriate word than ‘lifeline’ in relation to a hospice?