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Here are more photos from the Duchess of Cambridge’s appearance yesterday in London at the 75th Anniversary of the RAF Air Cadets event. This was her first solo “work” event since December. Kate made this appearance ahead of a “busy” couple of weeks as she plans to do a lot of work on behalf of children’s mental health, mostly in conjunction with her patronage Place2Be. Ahead of Children’s Mental Health Week, Kate and Place2Be released a new video in which the duchess not only chats about mental health, but actually chats TO four children who benefit from Place2Be’s programs. Here’s the video:

First: she’s wearing purple eyeshadow, right? Wow. Second: Is it just me or is the editing on this video amazingly bad? Like, it’s so bad that it transcends the normal PR fluff. She asks questions to the children and we never hear their answers. We hear the children speak and then instead of seeing Kate’s reaction, they cut to her staring blankly at the camera and reading the autocue. No, I jest! She actually memorized her lines, or perhaps that’s why there were so many awkward edits – she’s being fed her lines one by one off-camera, and then they had to edit around it, thus the “filler” of Kate talking to kids.

Now, all that being said… this video is better than her previous videos. She actually seems somewhat natural at times, especially when she’s interacting with the kids. As much as her PR team wants to convince us that she’s the second coming of Diana, I get the impression (consistently, over the years) that Kate really isn’t a people person, nor is she very comfortable around random children (no judgment, I’m not comfortable with kids either). Diana had such a high emotional IQ and she was so touchy-feely with everyone, of course Kate (or anyone else) is going to come up short. The answer, then, is to stop trying to convince people that Kate is Diana 2.0.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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