Kate cuddles baby as she learns about innovative new education project (2/2)
The duchess later chatted to the mother and her baby, and she briefly held Saul, who will celebrate his first birthday in June, but he quickly stretched out his hands for his mother.
Later, the couple met people helped by the housing, care and property management group the Wheatley Group at one of the organisation’s sites in the Kennishead area of Glasgow.
They learned how the group is helping to transform the lives of disadvantaged or vulnerable people, including those at risk of homelessness.
The couple met mothers whose children receive books through a partnership between the group and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
Kirsty Holmes, 25, told William and Kate her four-year-old son Theo’s favourite book is The Gingerbread Man, and Kate offered him a cupcake from a plate on the table and praised his Spider-Man glasses.
Ms Holmes said afterwards: “I enjoyed talking to them, they were very welcoming and down to earth. They seem to really like children, they were asking about our experiences with the books.”
Lynette Wilson, 36, who has children aged one, two and 14, told the couple how she has been helped by Wheatley Foundation’s EatWell emergency food parcel service.
Her daughter Olivia gave William a picture she had drawn of him and Kate told her it was “very good”.
