Duchess Kate delivers heartwarming speech after being bestowed a new role
The Duchess of Cambridge has been bestowed with a new and exciting role in which she is the named patron of The Founding Museum in London.
While this is a new position for the royal member, it is her third alliance with museums in the UK overall.
What started off as the UK’s first children’s charity, the Foundling Museum is now a public art gallery where Duchess Kate visited before in 2017.
Foundling is a historic term used for children, but specifically babies, who have been abandoned by their parents and discovered and cared for by others.
When the charity was first established in the eighteenth century, abandoned children were not unusual.
Kate revisited the museum on Tuesday for the first time in almost two years, to see the Bedrooms of London exhibition, which displays the living conditions of London’s most disadvantaged children.
“Your work connects and celebrates two subjects that are deeply important to me: children, and art,” the Duchess told the audience in a heart-warming speech.
“I am passionate about improving children’s life chances and giving them opportunities.”
Just hours earlier, the Duchess had attended her first ever solo royal engagement with the Queen.
The Duchess admitted that although visiting museums and galleries can be an overwhelming experience for children, she urged them that once they found themselves inside, they would discover all the programs and many exhibitions created with them in mind.
“So that they can look forward to the best possible futures, fulfil their whole potential, and have the freedom to explore their creativity.
“I have always believed in the power of art,” she continued.
“Not only to unlock that creativity, but also to bring us joy, and to inspire, challenge and positively change our lives.”
The Duchess of Cambridge is also patron of the V&A and National Portrait Gallery.