KATE is a pearly dream as she steps out for her first joint engagement with Princess Anne to meet maternity experts.
The royal power couple chatted to staff at the new HQ of the Royal College for Obstetrics and Gynaecology — where the Duchess of Cambridge, 40, is patron — in Southwark, London.
Yesterday’s trip is the first joint engagement the pair have been on together since Kate started as a working royal after her marriage to William eleven years ago.
The Princess Royal, 71, left midwives laughing as she recalled fearing that one of her babies had become “wedged” when she tripped over in a horse lorry while heavily pregnant.
The women were shown a demonstration of a new Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance tool.
This monitors the safety of babies during labour in order to move to an emergency delivery if the baby’s head gets stuck in the mothers’ pelvis.
Dr Katie Cornthwaite, an obstetrics and gynaecology registrar, said afterwards: “It was really lovely to see how engaged they both were.
“It was lovely to share something that we are passionate about and see that they care about it.”
Princess Anne completed a successful trip to Papua New Guinea and Australia earlier this month for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
