In a memorable appearance at the Royal Air Force Windermere Adventure Training Centre, Kate Middleton impressed royal fans by joining a group of Air Cadets for a series of outdoor activities to mark the facility’s reopening.
The event showcased the Princess of Wales’s adventurous spirit, as she participated in abseiling and mountain biking alongside the cadets.
Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, goes mountain biking at the Windermere Adventure Training Centre with RAF Cadets on September 21, 2021 (Credit: Mega / WENN)
The Duchess of Cambridge, an Honorary Air Commandant of the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, showed off her adventurous side for the action-packed visit, where she tried abseiling and mountain biking.
Kate Middleton tries out abseiling during her visit to the reopening of the Royal Air Force Windermere Adventure Training Centre (Credit: Mega / WENN)
Dressed for the Outdoors: Kate Middleton’s Casual-Chic Look
For the outdoor adventure, Kate wore fitted black jeans teamed with a $3,258 Seeland Hawker pine green quilted puffer jacket.
Underneath her outerwear, Kate donned a cashmere knitted top in smoky quartz that you can buy for $140 at Boden.
Kate Middleton pairs a Seeland Hawker pine green puffer jacket with fitted black jeans and her rugged See by Chloé brown lace-up ankle boots for an adventurous day outdoors (Credit: Mega / WENN)
Trading Pumps for Practicality: Kate’s See by Chloé Boots
She looked all set for the recreation, trading her usual heeled pumps for her trusty brown suede boots from the French label See By Chloé.
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They’re a pair of ankle boots with leather trims, logo-embossed heel tabs, a lace-up fastening, and chunky lug soles with low stacked heels.
Kate Middleton opts for rugged See by Chloé suede lace-up ankle boots with lug soles—perfectly blending style and function for outdoor adventure (Credit: Mega / WENN)
Finishing Touches: Hair, Makeup, and Accessories
While wearing a protective helmet throughout the activities, Kate tied her tresses into a ponytail and wore her signature makeup, which included subtle smoky eyes and neutral-colored blush.
She then rounded out her look with an understated pair of hoop earrings and her Garrard & Co. sapphire and diamond engagement ring.
Kate Middleton pulls her hair back into a casual ponytail and wears neutral makeup with subtle smoky eyeshadow (Credit: Mega / WENN)
Promoting Early Childhood Awareness in L.K.Bennett Style
3 months earlier, the Duchess of Cambridge announced that she would launch a new foundation to help kids and their parents.
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood will help “raise awareness of why the first five years of life are just so important for our future life outcomes, and what we can do as a society to embrace this golden opportunity to create a happier, more mentally healthy, more nurturing society.”
The Duchess of Cambridge in a pale blue shift dress from the Royal Ascot x L.K.B collection shelters from the rain under an umbrella as she arrives at Kensington Palace to meet with a group of parents who have helped her understand the importance of providing support for parents during the earliest years of children’s lives, as she marks the launch of The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in London on June 18, 2021 (Credit: MEGA / WENN)
“Our first five years lay important foundations for our future selves. This period is when we first learn to manage our emotions and impulses, to care and to empathize, and thus ultimately to establish healthy relationships with ourselves and others,” Kate wrote in the foreword to Big Change Starts Small report written in collaboration with The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and the London School of Economics.
The Duchess of Cambridge styled her L.K.Bennett ‘Dee’ dress with an Astley Clarke pendant and a Spells of Love double-strand beaded satellite chain necklace (Credit: MEGA / WENN)
“It is a time when our experience of the world around us, and the way that molds our development, can have a lifelong impact on our future mental and physical wellbeing,” Kate added. “Indeed, what shapes our childhood shapes the adults and the parents we become.”
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