Britain’s Princess Catherine wrapped up a trip to Italy on Thursday with a pasta-making class on her first official overseas visit since her 2024 cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n
Catherine prepared “tortelli” — a regional speciality similar to ravioli — at a farmhouse hotel near the city of Reggio Emilia.<\/p>\n
Looking a bit unsure of herself, the Princess of Wales kneaded the dough, applied a filling and cut out the pasta shapes as Ivan Lampredi, a chef, assisted her.<\/p>\n
“Sorry, I’m very slow,” she could be heard saying at one point.<\/p>\n
“Don’t worry,” Lampredi later told her as she cut the pasta.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, she visited an Italian preschool practising nature-based learning and a centre to teach children about recycling.<\/p>\n
The visit by the Princess of Wales, whose husband Prince William is the heir to the British throne, was focused on early years education.<\/p>\n
The subject is close to the princess’s heart as a mother of three children — George, 12, Charlotte, 11, and Louis, eight.<\/p>\n
Kate, as she is widely known, was greeted by hundreds of cheering onlookers in Reggio Emilia at the start of her visit on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old’s last official trip abroad was in December 2022 when she travelled to Boston with William for the awarding of the environmental Earthshot prize.<\/p>\n
She announced in March 2024 that she had been diagnosed with cancer, without revealing which type, and said that she had begun chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
In January 2025 she said she was in remission from cancer, and since then she has been gradually returning to public royal duties.<\/p>\n
She set up the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in 2021, working to highlight the importance of a child’s early years.<\/p>\n
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