{"id":18729,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/18729\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:12","slug":"kate-buzzing-after-successful-trip-to-italy-says-william-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/18729\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate \u2018buzzing\u2019 after successful trip to Italy, says William \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Princess of Wales returned \u201cbuzzing\u201d from her trip to Italy promoting the early years development of children and has become a \u201cpro\u201d on the subject, her husband has said.<\/p>\n

William discussed Kate\u2019s first official foreign tour in more than three years during an appearance on Heart radio\u2019s breakfast show presented by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden.<\/p>\n

He said his wife is \u201cedging herself back\u201d into doing more overseas visits following her successful cancer treatment, but cautioned royal trips take their toll, so they have to \u201cmake sure she\u2019s OK and rested\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"WilliamWilliam praised his \u2018amazing wife\u2019 Kate during the interview (Chris Jackson\/PA) <\/p>\n

There was also a personal tribute to Kate from her husband, who said: \u201cShe\u2019s an amazing mum and an amazing wife and literally our family couldn\u2019t cope without her, so she\u2019s been absolutely stunning, really has.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"William<\/a>\"Rachel<\/a><\/p>\n

William appeared live on the breakfast show, broadcast from a cafe on the Isles of Scilly where the prince will later visit the Isles of Scilly Hospital to meet staff, patients and open a new facility which has increased medical capacity to the isles.<\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging interview, the prince joked about doing the school run, his love of dance music and how he still follows his late grandmother the Queen\u2019s rule for making scones \u2013 cream first then jam.<\/p>\n

\"Kate’sKate\u2019s trip was focused on early years education (Jordan Pettitt\/PA) <\/p>\n

Asked if he is proud of Kate\u2019s successful visit to Italy, William replied: \u201cSo proud, very, very proud. She\u2019s been amazing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s been through so much in the last couple of years, particularly. She\u2019d been looking forward to the Italian trip a lot, and so I\u2019m really glad it went really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate received a rapturous welcome from the people of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia where she learnt about an innovative approach to teaching young children pioneered in the city.<\/p>\n

William added: \u201cShe wanted to go and do lots of research, she spends God knows how much time now looking through all the paperwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a proper pro on early years, and so most evenings I\u2019m fighting to get past in the bedroom\u2026 all the paperwork that she\u2019s got lined up ready to read.<\/p>\n

\"WilliamWilliam said Kate is \u2018a proper pro on early years\u2019 following her visit to Italy (Phil Noble\/PA) <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so pleased it went well for her, and yeah I think she came back buzzing.\u201d<\/p>\n

An aide to the princess last week described the trip as a \u201chuge moment\u201d for Kate, who has experienced a cancer diagnosis and success treatment since she travelled to America more than three years ago.<\/p>\n

William and Kate\u2019s last major lengthy tour together was their controversial trip to the Caribbean in March 2022 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, before they spent three days in Boston in December 2022 for the prince\u2019s Earthshot Prize ceremony.<\/p>\n

When the suggestion was made that Kate wants to do more overseas visits, William told the breakfast show: \u201cYes, I think so. It\u2019s kind of, just sort of edging herself back into doing more and more of those trips.<\/p>\n

\u201cAway trips like that take a lot out of you because you\u2019re on sort of permanent receive and send the whole time, and so we have to balance that, make sure she\u2019s OK and rested, but yeah, she\u2019s in good form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess of Wales returned \u201cbuzzing\u201d from her trip to Italy promoting the early years development of children…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13763,13764,13765,5,9956,11508,9805,4532,13762,5763,11507],"class_list":["post-18729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-italy","tag-early-years-development","tag-heart-radio","tag-isles-of-scilly","tag-italy","tag-kate","tag-prince-of-wales","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal","tag-south-west","tag-uk","tag-william"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729","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=18729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}