\u00a0Sign up for our free Royals newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cMental health is high on the agenda at the moment and she understands that,\u201d he adds. \u201cIf this is something that doesn\u2019t cost much, and most people can do, I think she recognizes it as part of the solution of tackling the endemic mental health challenges we face as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Kate, the superpower isn\u2019t just about her ease with people \u2014 it\u2019s about how she uses her own story to connect and uplift. As Fields puts it, \u201cThe princess is passionate about the next generation. When you hear statistics like 78 per cent of young people feel better in their mental health and sense of wellbeing when they spend a significant amount of time in the outdoors\u2026 She understands that \u2014 that\u2019s young people saying this is part of the solution for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Princess Kate looks over a map with, from right to left) Esmee Chan (from 1st Buddha Light Explorer Scouts, Stretford, Greater Manchester), Kurt Lindhofer (from 1st Ulverston Scouts), Erika Rawlinson (from 1st Ulverston Scouts), Yuxun Choy (from 1st Buddha Light Explorer Scouts, Stretford, Greater Manchester).<\/p>\n
Kensington Palace<\/p>\n
“The Scout tradition is to spend as much time in nature, in outdoor spaces as we can. It was a very familiar place for many of our young people,” Fields adds. “But you can imagine having a public figure of her stature, can be unsettling in cases, but she made every single person feel right at home. Making people so comfortable from the off was such a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Kate Middleton opens up about how nature helped her find peace during cancer recovery The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-201169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}