The Princess of Wales shared her new outdoor pursuit during a visit to Pontypridd
The Princess of Wales shared her new outdoor pursuit during a visit to Pontypridd
The Princess of Wales often speaks about her love for the great outdoors, and during a visit to Pontypridd in south Wales on Wednesday, she shared the new skill she’s learning.
Prince William and Kate were given a tour of the Meadow Street Community Garden and Woodland to hear about the site’s impact and how volunteers worked to restore it in the wake of the floods, which affected the area in 2024.
As the Princess chatted too young volunteers, she revealed that she is learning to forage in Norfolk, with her three children, Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, left impressed by a “huge” puffball mushroom she had found near their home.
“The children thought it was fascinating,” she said. Foraging involves searching for and collecting edible plants, fruits, nuts, seeds and fungi from the outdoors.
No doubt Kate has also picked up some tips from her father-in-law, the King, who embarked on a mushroom foraging trip alone in August 2011.
It was the hobby that Charles also turned to on the day of his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s death on 8 September 2022. He learned that his mother had passed as he returned to Balmoral after foraging for mushrooms on his nearby Birkhall estate.
The Princess of Wales, who has long spoken about the benefits of being in nature, shares a love of outdoor pursuits with her husband and their children.
Back in 2020, Kate appeared on the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast and when host Giovanna Fletcher prompted the then Duchess of Cambridge to complete the sentence, “I’m happy when…,” she replied: “I’m with my family outside in the countryside and we’re all filthy dirty.
