Plunging her bare hands into bags full of compost, submerging her sparkling sapphire and diamond engagement ring, the Duchess of Cambridge shows that she’s not afraid of a bit of dirt in these remarkably candid photographs, taken as she helped create a new garden for a children’s hospice.
Kneeling on the ground, she ploughs on with the task in hand despite great clumps of soil pouring on to her floral midi dress.
Then she doles out sunflower seeds to the children to plant.
It could so easily have been a sombre occasion, given the tough hand dealt to the children here, yet Kate laughed joyfully alongside six-year-old Sonny Pope-Saunders, who has a rare type of brain tumour, and his siblings, all beaming with delight. Read more from The Daily Mail.