Kate Middleton has released a series of videos to launch the results of her massive 5 Big Questions on the Under Fives initiative. She also clarified that she did not specifically choose to focus on children for her work in 2021 just because she is a mother of three children.
The Duchess of Cambridge posted the videos on her Kensington Palace Instagram account. Each of the results and insights have over a million views, and there are more than five videos to watch from the series.
Kate and her team commissioned Ipsos MORI for this landmark survey, which had more than 500,000 respondents. Prince William's wife visited various communities across the United Kingdom from January to February this year to be in touch with parents, teachers and community leaders for her Under Fives project. But this is just the start of the work that Kate has done for the last nine years when she became part of the royal family.
In a speech at the forum hosted by The Royal Foundation, Kate said that people had assumed she did this project when she became a mother to George, Charlotte, and Louis. However, the Duchess of Cambridge reiterated that if parents only take an interest in the early years once their children are born, it will be too late.
Prince William's wife underscored that being a parent "is not a prerequisite" for understanding early childhood because everyone has a crucial role in the formative years of kids under five years old. Kate said that her initiative is not simply about how to raise kids. It is raising "the next generation of adults" that will steer the future of society.
So, by 2021, the Duchess of Cambridge will launch more projects connected to what she just launched. Kate mentioned problems like homelessness, addiction, and poor mental health as some of the issues faced by adults with a difficult childhood, which will likely make up her next line of work.
This is a solo venture for Prince William's wife under their charity, The Royal Foundation. However, Kate will likely collaborate with her husband for her next steps since eradicating homelessness, preventing addiction, and improving poor mental health are also the advocacies of the Duke of Cambridge.
The launch received the support of the royal family with no less than Queen Elizabeth's official Twitter account reposting Kate's research result. This showed the monarch has the Duchess of Cambridge's seal of approval.
