Princess of Wales joins school field trip to National Portrait Gallery to launch new project

The Princess of Wales stepped off a mini bus in Central London along with a group of kids for a school visit to the National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday.

Kate could have been any mum on the field trip, blending in with the other chaperones as she held hands with a five-year-old Grace, who she sat next to on the bus.

They continued to chat as they walked together towards the gallery among the sea of 13 school children aged four and five.

Watch the video above.

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Grace continued to hold Kate's hand even once inside, with executive headteacher from All Souls CE Primary School in London, Alix Ascough, revealing the kids were a little oblivious to the royal.

"[Grace] knew it was a very special visitor," Ascough told reporters, according to the Daily Mail.

"We told her she was a princess. She just called her Catherine."

Kate joined the students to launch a new interactive trail inside the gallery, which is a learning project developed by her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood.

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The pupils were the first to take part in The Bobeam Tree Trail, which is based on a magical tree that has grown inside the National Portrait Gallery.

They journey through the gallery using portraits as the basis for a range of activities that enable them to use and develop different social and emotional skills.

The kids help the Bobeam Tree to 'grow' by taking part in activities around the gallery to discover the stories of people through portraits, includes by listening to audio recordings, using props and exploring facial expressions.

At the end, the children were asked to think about their own lives, feelings and thoughts while creating a self-portrait, which they "feed" to the tree at the end of the trail, to help the tree grow.

The Princess of Wales, who is also the royal patron of the gallery, joined the pupils for part of the trail, exploring how faces can express feelings and emotions.

The mum-of-three was seen bending down to chat to the kids and even sitting on the floor and playing with them.

While the palace recently announced they'd no longer be revealing Kate's outfit details, it didn't take long for internet sleuths to work out details of her chic tailored look.

The princess added a chocolate blazer and ribbed black turtleneck knit to grey pinstripe trousers from British brand Jigsaw, paired with earrings and black heels by French shop, Sézane.

The project was created drawing on expertise of academics, clinicians, and practitioners in human development from across the globe and is the first to be created based on the new Shaping Us Framework, which Kate launched last week.

The Bobeam Tree Trail will run at the National Portrait Gallery until March 16 and is free, with nurseries and reception groups and families with young children invited to join in.

Other museums and galleries across the UK will also be working with the National Portrait Gallery through the year to work a tree trail around their own art collections.

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