The princess stepped out for her first royal engagement of the week on Tuesday (Image: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)
has sent royal fans into a frenzy this afternoon after she arrived to her latest royal engagement in an unusual way.
The Princess of Wales, 43, (NPG) to launch an interactive trail aimed at helping children under five develop their social and emotional skills.
The trail is part of The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood’s new project, which is based on the new Shaping Us Framework announced earlier this week outlining 30 social and emotional skills that are crucial to living a healthy, happy life at all ages.
While a royal visit was exciting in itself, the princess turned heads when she stepped out of a school bus outside the gallery, which she has been patron of since 2011, rather than travel to the engagement in a royal car.
On the bus, the princess was joined by a group of four and five-year-old schoolchildren from All Souls CE Primary School, who were accompanying the princess to participate in The Bobeam Tree Trail for the first time.
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On X, fans were quick to notice the princess disembark from the school bus, with one little girl clinging on to her hand.
One fan wrote: “The Princess of Wales fits right in like a schoolteacher. The children’s princess!”
Another said: “How nice for her as well as for the children, The Princess travelling by coach with them, rather than a more formal arrival in a royal car.”
A third wrote: “She looks like every other Mum chaperoning a field trip! So happy to be there. The children love her!”
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Kate, 43, travelled to the gallery on a school bus (Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Another person said: “She arrived on the school bus!! This is everything.”
The princess was all smiles for the duration of the trip and wore a brown blazer, which she paired with a dark turtleneck top and dark pinstripe wide leg trousers.
The royal visit is part of the princess’ gradual return to work, which has already seen her complete a handful of royal engagements so far this year,