The Duchess of Cambridge will begin her busiest working week on home soil on Monday as she prepares to begin a new phase in her life as a working member of the Royal family.
The Duchess will carry out six engagements in the space of three days, including her first trip to the north east of England, at the start of a season when she will be given more public duties than ever before.
Royal aides are stepping up the Duchess’s workload in the knowledge that she
could become a full-time working member of the
Royal family as soon as next summer.
The Duke of Cambridge’s current tour with his RAF Search and Rescue squadron
will finish in mid-2013 and if the Duke decides not to sign on for a further
three-year stint the couple will be expected to shoulder a far greater
burden of public engagements.
Even if the Duke stays in the RAF or chooses to switch to another branch of
the armed forces, the Duchess is likely to take on more charity patronages
in the New Year, meaning extra work for her.
A Royal source said: “During the next few months the Duchess will be doing her
own research and making private visits to charities to consider whether
there are other areas where she can provide support and more patronages she
can take on next year.
“Obviously if that happens it will entail extra work because there will be
more visits to fit in and more people to meet.
“If the Duke decides not to continue his career in the armed forces, then he and the Duchess will build up their workload over time until they are carrying out full-time royal duties.”
The Duchess’s immediate future also depends, of course, on whether she decides to start a family in the next few months.
After an engagement on Monday, the details of which have not yet been made public, the Duke and Duchess will travel to Burton-upon-Trent on Tuesday, where they will meet the England football squad at the opening of the Football Association’s National Football Centre.
Then on Wednesday they will travel to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where they will carry out two engagements, followed by a visit to a youth project in Gateshead and an Action on Addiction programme in Stockton-on-Tees.
The Duchess is patron of Action on Addiction, one of only four charities she has so far forged links with.
Although the Duchess’s life has been dominated in recent weeks by the row over topless pictures of her printed by foreign magazines, she showed during the couple’s tour of the Far East that she has an ability to ignore such distractions when she is working.
The only time the Duchess has carried out more engagements in the UK was during the Olympics, when, as an ambassador for Team GB, she
attended up to seven events per week, but she did not have to travel outside London.
Hear, See, and Say it“If the Duke decides not to continue his career in the armed forces, then he and the Duchess will build up their workload over time until they are carrying out full-time royal duties.”
The Duchess’s immediate future also depends, of course, on whether she decides to start a family in the next few months.
After an engagement on Monday, the details of which have not yet been made public, the Duke and Duchess will travel to Burton-upon-Trent on Tuesday, where they will meet the England football squad at the opening of the Football Association’s National Football Centre.
Then on Wednesday they will travel to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where they will carry out two engagements, followed by a visit to a youth project in Gateshead and an Action on Addiction programme in Stockton-on-Tees.
The Duchess is patron of Action on Addiction, one of only four charities she has so far forged links with.
Although the Duchess’s life has been dominated in recent weeks by the row over topless pictures of her printed by foreign magazines, she showed during the couple’s tour of the Far East that she has an ability to ignore such distractions when she is working.
The only time the Duchess has carried out more engagements in the UK was during the Olympics, when, as an ambassador for Team GB, she
attended up to seven events per week, but she did not have to travel outside London.
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