{"id":14973,"date":"2026-05-11T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14973\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:05:10","slug":"kate-middleton-set-to-receive-prestigious-honour-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/14973\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton set to receive &#8216;prestigious&#8217; honour in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"eaKOJLI7pW\" data-wc=\"53\"><a class=\"hm-link he-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/kate-middleton\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Princess of Wales<\/a> will be presented with the \u201cPrimo Tricolore\u201d &#8211; Reggio Emilia\u2019s highest honour &#8211; in recognition of her Early Years work, Hello can reveal. Kate will be given the green, white and red flag that inspired modern-day Italy\u2019s national symbol during her stay in the northern Italian city this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eViLWs_IcyJ\" data-wc=\"47\">The Italian flag was first created in Reggio Emilia in 1797, long before the unification of Italy in 1861. The original version, bearing the coat of arms of the Cispadane Republic &#8211; four arrows surrounded by a laurel wreath, was later adopted to represent the entire country.<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/06bf4a6ae5bf-kate.jpg\"   width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales attends the wreath laying and parade service as part of the ANZAC Day commemorations at Cenotaph on April 25, 2026 in London, England. \" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\"image he-image\" data-flatplan=\"fp_photoCaption\"\/>\u00a9 Samir Hussein\/WireImageThe royal is set to receive a special honour<\/p>\n<p id=\"eeI7RcrWp9K\" data-wc=\"32\">The city\u2019s Mayor, Marco Massari told a council session: \u201cWe consider this visit truly prestigious because it highlights one of the experiences that make our city a model known and appreciated worldwide.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ekmULO9Q45g\" data-wc=\"70\">\u201cWe are convinced that the visit of a woman who uses her popularity as a vehicle for spreading educational approaches in harmony with the Reggio Approach is of great importance.\u201dThe Princess is visiting in her capacity as patron of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, rather than at the request of the UK government, so the presentation will likely happen behind closed doors rather than at a public ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales will be presented with the \u201cPrimo Tricolore\u201d &#8211; Reggio Emilia\u2019s highest honour &#8211; in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,9736,10147,10148],"class_list":{"0":"post-14973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-kate-middleton","10":"tag-royalty","11":"tag-the-princess-of-wales"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}