Duchess of Cambridge reveals George and Charlotte’s new obsession
The Duchess of Cambridge proved she wasn’t afraid of getting a little dirty when she visited a farm in Gloucestershire yesterday. Kate met inner-city children from Vauxhall Primary School, who were enjoying the Wick Court farm as part of the Farms for City Children project.
Chatting to the schoolkids, the young royal revealed she and Prince William have assembled quite the menagerie at their home in Norfolk, including their dog, Lupo, a hamster named Marvin, a lamb, plus Prince George and Princess Charlotte’s latest obsession, chickens.
“She has got several Cuckoo Marans at home, she told me,” 50-year-old stockman Dave Evansoneya told reporters. “She says she had cleaned out a few chicken sheds in her time!
“She told me and the children that she has an incubator of eggs at home at the moment with a hope that they are going to hatch into chicks. Her children are very excited.”
“The incubator is relatively new and she doesn’t know if it is going to work,” school teacher Nicole Preston added. “She says it takes 21 days but George and Charlotte are so excited that they come down each morning and peer inside to see if anything has happened!”
Kate certainly wasn’t afraid to get up close to the farm animals, feeding an adorable lamb named Stinky and showed natural talent when she helped weigh some pigs. “She was pushing the pig’s bum with her bare hands,” teacher Edison David said. “It was just to move the pig along. It was second nature to her.”
The Duchess also revealed she’s currently teaching the children Spanish, with George already able to count to 10. We can tell already these are going to be two clever kids!
Flip through the gallery above to see all the sweet snaps from Kate’s day out.