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Catherine, wife of second-in-line to the throne Prince
William, watched pupils tending to pigs, sheep and chickens as
part of a week-long education programme.
The "Farms for City Children" charity runs the courses in which
kids from urban areas live and work on farms with their teachers
for a week."It is an intense, 'learning through doing'
experience of a different life for children who may not know
where their food comes from and have limited opportunities to
explore the outside world," Catherine's Kensington Palace office
said.
The charity has three farms, with 3,200 children and 400
teachers visiting per year, the palace added. Catherine was
joined at Wick Court Farm in the Gloucestershire village of
Arlingham by children’s author Michael Morpurgo, who founded the
charity with his wife Clare in 1976.
The visit came the day after the second birthday of the
Cambridges' daughter Princess Charlotte and as the royal pair
are seeking damages in a French court over the publication in
celebrity magazine Closer of topless pictures of the duchess in
2012.
(Reporting by Emily Roe; Editing by Stephen Addison)
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