Kate Middleton arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark on Tuesday for her first solo overseas tour in five years.
The royal is paying a two-day visit to the country to kick off the year-long celebrations for Queen Elizabeth‘s Platinum Jubilee, as well as promote her Early Year Foundation. This is the second time she’s visited Denmark in her royal capacity, the first being in 2011 shortly after her wedding. This is also the Duchess of Cambridge’s first big overseas trip since 2019 when she and her husband Prince William visited Pakistan, and her first solo tour took since 2017 when she took a trip to Luxembourg. William recently returned from his own solo tour as well, having visited Dubai earlier this month.
Upon her arrival in Copenhagen, Kate was greeted by the British ambassador to Denmark, Emma Hopkins. She then stopped by the University of Copenhagen to meet with and learn from the researchers running the Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project, whose goal is to promote the mental well-being of infants and their parents. The Duchess went on to pay a visit to the LEGO Foundation Playlab at the University College Copenhagen where she even took a ride down the giant slide installed inside the building. While there, she also met with the team behind the Playful Learning Programme, a partnership between the LEGO foundation and six Danish universities to enhance children’s creative and experimental approach to learning.
During her stay, the royal will be hosted at Christian IX’s Palace by Queen Margrethe II who is also celebrating her Jubilee this year. Margrethe is celebrating 50 years on the throne, while Queen Elizabeth is commemorating her 70th. Much like the British monarch, Margrethe also recently recovered from COVID-19 after experiencing mild symptoms. While there, Kate will also visit the Mary Foundation with Princess Mary, who just celebrated her 50th birthday, to see the work they’re doing there to protect vulnerable women and children from domestic violence. Kensington Palace also announced that during the trip the royal will learn how Denmark has “created an enabling culture for early childhood development, specifically how it has promoted infant mental wellbeing alongside physical health, and how it harnesses the power of nature, relationships and playful learning in the first five years of life.”
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