Princess Kate to give first glimpse into what she’s been working on behind scenes while undergoing cancer treatment

PRINCESS Kate will today give the first glimpse into what she’s been working on behind the scenes while she undergoes cancer treatment.

The royal, 42, launched the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in 2021 and hailed it her “life’s work”.

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She has been pouring her time and effort into it ever since.

It was revealed in March that the princess had been “working from home” on the project while she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

In November last year, she beamed as she made her biggest speech yet as she announced her “vision for the future”.

Kate has labelled her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, which is aimed at raising the profile of the early years development of children, as her “life’s work”.

Today its findings on society and businesses working together to change the way childhood is viewed and prioritised will be published.

The charity recently funded a trial of a baby observation tool.

And Kate had naturally been highly invested in the four-month trial – even while she’d been on the mend.

Kensington Palace told the Telegraph in March: “The princess has been kept updated throughout the process.”

The tool focused on a baby’s social behaviours such as eye contact and facial expression to help practitioners and families better understand the ways babies express their feelings.

The results of the trial came out in March, revealing “overwhelmingly positive” results.

Kate’s love for the charity was something Prince William made a touching remark about in recent weeks.

Wills beamed as he met locals working in – and impacted by – homelessness in Sheffield.

There, someone touched on the topic of childhood, to which Wills instantly smiled, before referring to the success of his wife’s projects.

The heir said his wife should have been there at his side, after her years committed to Early Years projects.

Holding his palms out and grinning, Wills said: “We’re venturing into my wife’s territory. She needs to be sat here to hear this.”

When Kate launched the project in 2021 she said she wanted to create a “happier society“.

She said she wanted early child development to be treated as “the social equivalent to climate change”.

In November Kate talked about recent findings from the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.

The princess set out her “vision for the future of her work”, which was dubbed a “huge moment”.

Speaking to the crowds, Kate said: “The future for our children is something we all build together; through the actions each of us takes every day.

“It is therefore time we understood that building a healthier world means nurturing the foundations that support our children – everything from the systems that govern early care through to our attitudes to those raising the next generation, and the support they receive.

“Because if we can create a society which sees the child within every adult – and the adult within every child – we will finally start to change it for the better.”

Kate said also her son Prince Louis, five, had taken part in a study at Lambrook School to help with the campaign.

She told telly star Fearne Cotton: “Louis class, they came back with a feelings wheel, it’s really good, they to the classroom, these are five or six-year-olds, and going with names or pictures of a colour that represents how they feel that day.

“There is a real keenness in school particularly to get involved in conversations, it’s actually helping continuity across the board and then how does that feed into you, with your mental health, its same conversation, so to be able to find a bit of framework, to talk about this, is very important.”

Kensington Palace said the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood had dreamed up a worldwide listening exercise with the help of experts from across the globe.

The palace said the group had also come up with key skills for youngsters to develop in childhood to build the foundations for their futures.

Since Kate launched Shaping Us she has been spotted spending time with children at a number of different schools.

In February last year she was snapped charming an adorable pack of under 5s as they spoke candidly about growing pains, ice cream and teddy bears.

She sat down with the youngsters to raise awareness of the impact of five years of life on adulthood.

The smiling mum-of-three gave the smitten youngsters high-fives as they spoke about their feelings at St John’s CE Primary School in Bethnal Green, East London.

One girl told the princess: “I like my friend Miley.

“When I cry, she gets a tissue and wipes my tears.”

Kate, in a green blouse replied: “That is the kind of friend… we all have feelings don’t we?

“Good feelings and sad feelings.

“But if we’ve got our friends around us and our family, it makes us feel better, doesn’t it?

“Does it make you feel better when you talk about your feelings?”

In the days that followed she chatted to another group of youngsters – encouraging them to “keep talking about feelings“.

She made paper chains with primary school kids to mark the start of Children’s Mental Health Week.

They told her about their ways of ­coping with strong feelings, with one saying: “I take deep breaths in, then I drink a glass of water.”

One little boy told the future Queen “connecting releases our emotions to other people that we care about”.