Kate Middleton Speaks Out About Feeling "Isolated" After The Birth Of Prince George

Jan 23, 2020 by apost team

The 38-year-old Duchess of Cambridge opened up on Wednesday about the “isolation” she felt after the birth of her first child, Prince George, in 2013.  During her time at the Ely and Careau Children’s Centre in Cardiff, Wales, Kate admitted she felt so “cut-off” post the birth of Prince George.

Kate’s stop at the integrated children’s center in Wales was a part of her tour to promote her new project, 5 Big Questions on the Under 5s. The center provides the same support to children and parents that Kate said she longed for during the early years caring for the couple’s first child. 

According to Hello Magazine, Kate explicitly discussed her struggles saying, “it was the first year and I’d just had George. William was still working with Search and Rescue and we came up here and I had a tiny, tiny baby in the middle of Anglesey.” Kate then continued to converse with the other moms at the centre by adding,

“I didn’t have any family around and he was doing night shifts. If only I had had a center like this.”

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After beginning on Tuesday, the duchess spoke with many parents and children on her 24-hour tour through Wednesday, and even made time to play with toddlers at the centre between “chatting to some of the moms.” 

With the organization’s endeavor of starting a nationwide conversation about childhood, Kate’s online poll is conducted by Ipsos Mori on behalf of the Royal Foundation. This project is the largest survey of its kind and brings Kate’s personal parenthood struggle on a larger scale independent from families’ social status, royal or not. 

As Kate said, her goal with the project is to “launch a survey to hear society’s views about raising the next generation.” On the Kensington Palace Instagram page Kate said:

“Parents, carers and families are at the heart of caring for children in the formative years, so that is why I want to listen to them. As a parent I know how much we cherish the future health and happiness of our children.”

Kate’s last stop on the tour was a visit to the very same women’s prison she had visited in 2015, HMP Send in Surrey. Reconnecting with some of the same women from her previous visit, Kate mentioned, “It really shocked me when I came here last time how early the challenges were that you face. How early you could take it back.” 

The inmates in Surrey receive support in their rehabilitation from The Forward Trust and one inmate even credited the program as being one of the best things to have happened to them during their time in prison. Trustee of The Forward Trust, Benny Refson, applauded the duchess’s work saying:

“it’s actually recognizing the importance of the work, and the complex world that prisons are, and the uncomfortable world, and by her coming to these prisons it’s giving value to the work that people do.”

Not even before the end of her tour, Kate made headlines after disclosing that she had “shut down” any plans of expanding her already three-children family with Prince William. Kate added, “I don’t think William wants any more.”

Kate, who has been married to Prince William since 2011, seems to be perfectly content with her three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, while also working to strengthen support for families around the nation. 

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