THE PRINCESS DIARIES ♚
4 FEBRUARY 2025 | LONDON : SHAPING US × NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The Princess of Wales visited her patronage, the National Portrait Gallery in London to launch a new project from the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood aimed at supporting young children in the development of crucial social and emotional skills.
The interactive Bobeam Tree Trail is based on a magical tree, which has grown inside the NPG and all that is known about this rare and unusual tree, which has colourful leaves, is that it thrives when surrounded by stories. The children are asked to help the Bobeam Tree by taking part in activities around the Gallery to discover the stories of people through portraits.
This is the first project to be created based on the new Shaping Us Framework and it aims to increase awareness and understanding of society’s social and emotional skills.
She was joined by a group of four and five-year-old school children on the trail during which they spent time together exploring how faces can express feelings and emotions. She also accompanied the kiddies as they drew self-portraits, an exercise to encourage them to think about their own stories.