Kate Middleton, even as she continues her lengthy convalescence following her “planned abdominal surgery” in January, has been keeping up with work from the comfort of home in Windsor, Kensington Palace said Thursday.
The Princess of Wales has kept up with her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood program, Shaping Us, which focuses on the importance of early childhood, Kensington Palace representatives told The Telegraph.
“The princess has been kept updated throughout the process,” a spokesperson said of a new study funded by the center, the results of which were released Thursday. The study surrounds the effectiveness of a tool called the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB), which tracks babies and young children’s social behavior and can inform action items for home health workers and families to support emotional and physical developmental milestones. Kate became interested in the tool after meeting with Danish families who had benefited from its use on a trip there in 2022.
Kensington Palace called the results of the study “overwhelmingly positive.”
Even as Kate has been absent from public appearances, with her most recent official engagement occurring on Christmas Day during the royal family’s traditional walk to church services, social media posts around Shaping Us have been released, such as the January milestone of the initiative’s first anniversary. Last week, her husband Prince William attended the opening of a youth center solo, an engagement that closely aligns with the mission of Shaping Us.
As Kate’s tentative Easter return to public duties looms, everyone from Kim Kardashian to the king of the Netherlands seems to have something to say about her absence from the public eye. Conspiracy theories and speculation around Kate’s condition and whereabouts have been further fueled by the revelation that a supposedly new photo of the princess and her three children posted to social media had been digitally manipulated, leading to an apology signed by Kate.