In April, she featured in a video alongside Fields, hiking through the Lake District as she discussed her ‘very spiritual, very intense’ connection with nature. ‘I find it a very spiritual and very intense emotional reconnection, I suppose, these environments,’ said the Princess. ‘Not everyone has that same relationship, perhaps, with nature, but it is so, therefore, meaningful for me as a place to balance and find a sort of sense of peace and reconnection in what is otherwise a very busy world.’
Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales and US First Lady Melania Trump tour the gardens of visit Frogmore Cottage on the Windsor Estate, in Windsor, on September 18, 2025
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The Princess of Wales and the First Lady joined a group of ‘Squirrels’ – a new Scouts programme for four to six year olds, which aims to help young people gain skills for life – to take part in several activities with the children, including leaf stamping and building bug houses. Fields then escorted Kate and Melania to the front of Frogmore House, for the presentation of a special ‘Go Wild’ badge to the Squirrels. Afterwards, the whole group enjoyed a relaxed picnic in the grounds.
King Charles is hosting the President and his wife for their second state visit, during which plenty of key engagements have been planned for the Trumps. The American President is known to be a big fan of the royals, and is only the second head of state to receive two invitations (following French President Raymond Poincaré, who was hosted in 1913 and 1919).