{"id":25317,"date":"2019-06-13T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1049207"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:36:22","slug":"kate-middleton-makes-a-surprise-appearance-on-beloved-kids-show-to-launch-garden-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/kate-middleton-makes-a-surprise-appearance-on-beloved-kids-show-to-launch-garden-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton Makes a Surprise Appearance on Beloved Kids’ Show to Launch Garden Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She’s Kate Middleton<\/a><\/strong> TV star!<\/p>\n

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is making a surprise appearance on Thursday on the popular, long-running BBC kids’ show Blue Peter<\/em>, where she launched a royal garden competition, which encourages kids to design a sculpture that will in September be placed in the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in England, inside a specific one inspired by the “Back to Nature” garden<\/a> she had designed for the Chelsea Flower Show.<\/p>\n

On the TV program, Kate played with a group of children, joining them in “pond-dipping,” or examining wildlife in a pond.<\/p>\n

“We’re all ready to do a bit of pond-dipping,” host Lindsay Russell<\/strong> says.<\/p>\n

“Brilliant,” says Kate, who dressed in a Taylor London khaki utility jacket and black pants.<\/p>\n

When asked if she has ever pond-dipped before, the duchess says the activity is “massively up my street.”<\/p>\n

Kate kneels down with the kids and chats with them as they fling small nets into the murky water and catch tadpoles and a newt.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Kate also joined the kids in planting flowers and led a team in a competition to build a den out of branches.<\/p>\n

The duchess also talked about her and husband Prince William<\/a><\/strong>‘s own children, Prince George<\/a><\/strong>, 5, Princess Charlotte<\/a><\/strong>, 4, and Prince Louis<\/a><\/strong>, 1.<\/p>\n

When asked by Russell whether she and her family often spend time outdoors, Kate said, “Rain or shine, they get dragged outside.”<\/p>\n

“I see it encourages creativity, confidence, even a short amount of time, ten or 15 minutes outside, makes a huge difference, I think to both physical well-being and mental well-being,” the duchess said.<\/p>\n

For her participation, Kate was awarded the Blue Peter<\/em> green badge for her efforts to get families back in nature.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2017, she and William appeared together on the show and were gifted gold Blue Peter badges in recognition of their work encouraging conversation about children’s mental health.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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She’s Kate Middleton TV star! Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is making a surprise appearance on Thursday on the popular, long-running BBC kids’ show Blue Peter, where she launched a royal garden competition, which encourages kids to design a sculpture that will in September be placed in the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in England, inside a specific one inspired by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 23:37:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}