Catherine's new chapter in Italy is reviving memories of Princess Diana
HELLO!'s Royal Editor Emily Nash is on the ground with the Princess of Wales
Pre-schoolers, police snipers, nuns, journalists, photographers and one very smiley baby held aloft for the VIP visitor: all the ingredients for a very Italian royal walkabout were in place in Reggio Emilia today.
The 3,000-strong crowd had come to see Princess Catherine – some from as far as 200km away – and she did not disappoint, spending around 15 minutes after her planned meeting with the mayor, speaking to and greeting as many of them as she could.
I spoke to the five and six-year-olds who she met, along with their teacher Roberta Marzi, who described the meeting as “thrilling” and said Catherine’s Italian had been perfect. The Princess learned some of the language during her three-month stay in Florence back in 2000 and still sounded good all these years later.
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