The Princess of Wales remains the Royal Family’s biggest draw

The Princess of Wales introduced herself to Italian schoolchildren as “Caterina” as she tried out her language skills on her first trip overseas since her cancer diagnosis. The Princess, who stepped out of her car to screams, whoops and shouts of “bellissima” and “Kate!”, launched into a walkabout, where people had been waiting up to five hours to see her. Her two-day trip to the northern city of Reggio Emilia is part of her “global mission” to help the next generation of children. She was heard telling the mayor of Reggio Emilia that the warm welcome had left her “emotional seeing everyone”. Pausing to speak to children from local pre-schools, she crouched to their eye level to chat. “Parlo un po’ d’italiano,” she said, letting them know she speaks only a little Italian, before asking their names. “Come ti chiami? Io sono Caterina.” Read More: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2026/05/13/princess-of-wales-italy-cancer-treatment-foreign-trip/ ► Sign up to the Telegraph's free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/from-the-editor/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscription/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.