{"id":191203,"date":"2026-05-13T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:24:09","slug":"kate-welcomed-to-italian-city-on-working-trip-with-childhood-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate welcomed to Italian city on working trip with childhood foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate was welcomed to Reggio Emilia by the city\u2019s mayor Marco Massari as she began a rare solo working trip with her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.<\/p>\n

The visit attracted hundreds of locals to the city\u2019s Piazza Prampolini where they gave the princess a rapturous welcome outside the town hall.<\/p>\n

\"PrincessKate arrives in Reggio Emilia (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n

A few held Union flags, some watched from balconies and others cheered when she stepped from her car wearing a wearing a trouser suit and waved to the crowds.<\/p>\n

Before going into the town hall, Kate crouched down to talk to nursery age children gathered near the entrance, and also spent a few minutes chatting to the mayor.<\/p>\n

On the town hall steps Kate again spoke to the mayor and turned to wave to the crowds who responded with cheers and waved back.<\/p>\n

\"PrincessThe princess chats with youngsters at the town hall (Jordan Pettitt\/PA)<\/p>\n

The two-day visit to Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, is the beginning of a \u201creally significant moment\u201d after her cancer recovery, an aide said, with Kate \u201ctaking it up a gear\u201d in her \u201cglobal mission\u201d.<\/p>\n

The future Queen will take her early years crusade around the world to start a conversation about the issue, the aide added.<\/p>\n

Early years has been central to her public work for more than a decade and the visit comes after Kate last week launched a new resource for people working with youngsters and their families, from her foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate was welcomed to Reggio Emilia by the city\u2019s mayor Marco Massari as she began a rare solo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-191203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}