The Princess of Wales wore two ensembles for a series of engagements in northern England today, her first solo away day of the year. 
She started with a visit to Family Action’s Children’s Trauma Therapy Service in Bradford. Many readers will recall the Princess is Family Action’s royal patron, a position she has held since 2019. Below is a quick video of the Princess arriving.
Delighted to welcome HRH Princess of Wales to Bradford on her visit to Family Action pic.twitter.com/3ebXPJI1OX
— Prof Adeeba Malik CBE, Lord Lieutenant W.Yorkshire (@LordLtWY) January 27, 2026
A Kensington Palace news release notes the “Children’s Trauma Therapy Service works to help children aged 4-18 years old and their families recover from and understand their responses to complex trauma. They work with families that have experienced adversity, abuse, and traumatic bereavement.”
Kate joined a therapy session for a mother and her 12 year old son who had been colouring in leaves to put on a collage tree, designed to help children illustrate their feelings and discuss their therapy journey.The boy said how music had helped him process difficult emotions and that he now played drums in a band. Kate said: “That’s a fantastic way to sort of express yourself and also manage really difficult and hard feelings that are sometimes harder to express with words than in any other way.”
We learn about the conversation from this Rayo piece.
Kate said: “Sometimes if you put them to your ear, you can sometimes hear the sea, do you want to see if you can hear the sea?
“Sometimes you can hear the waves. If you listen very quietly.
“That’s what I like doing with shells. If you close your eyes you can sometimes imagine you’re by the beach.”
The girl replied “yes” when Kate asked if she could hear the waves.
A video from Cameron Walker of GB News.
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In this image, you see the Princess with the young girl.
She showed the princess a “potion” she had made that would keep “the bad dreams” away.
Kate told the girl’s mother: “Lots of people need more of these.”
The therapist said she had also chosen some feathers for the box to keep the girl’s “busy head” calm.
The girl’s mother said her daughter had “loved” meeting the princess, telling the Press Association: “I don’t know how I’m going to get her back after this. She’s very busy-minded, she’s normally covered in slime.”
Describing how the centre had helped her family cope with their trauma, the mother-of-two said: “You always think when something like that happens, don’t mention it to (the children) but they’re supposed to speak, otherwise they just repress it.”
She learned about the In Touch program, which offers a community space for older people to address social isolation through quizzes, games, and stadium tours.
More from this GB News article.
Among those she met were regular attendees of the group, including Neil Fox and Geoff Oaks, both former Wakefield Trinity players.
The Princess of Wales also spent time with participants in Wakefield’s Inspiring Futures programme, which works with young people vulnerable to antisocial behaviour and youth crime.
Here you see her with Molly Fox, the wife of Trinity’s Neil Fox. 
Neil Fox and another former player, Geoff Oaks, are part of the In Touch project. 
In a story on its website, the league notes the Princess then “headed to the pitch to meet with girls who were taking part in a skills session as part of the Wakefield’s Champion Schools competition.”
More from The Independent’s coverage.
Amidst freezing temperatures, she was asked about Princess Charlotte’s school activities, telling the young players: “She does loads of sport but not rugby.”
And from the BBC’s story:
Catherine told them: “I love this, the league game is so embedded in community life and it’s so grassroots [and] interaction, and getting youngsters involved but also how clubs like this connect to the rest of the community.
“They’re absolute gold dust really, and I’m so proud to help support the league across the country.”
The Princess was also given a Wakefield Trinity shirt during her visit. 
The Princess had one more engagement, but first, here she is leaving the rugby club. 
She greeted well-wishers who gathered in the cold and rain in hopes of seeing her in person. 
One of those greeting her was Lauren Parkinson, known as Lady Parky on social media. Here, the Princess poses for a selfie with Lauren.
Below is Lauren’s post with the selfie. 
You may have noticed the Princess changed into a more casual outfit and put her hair into a braid. That is because she was heading outside to join a Mind Over Mountains wellbeing walk.
The Mind over Mountains site explains the charity offers help to “individuals, workplace teams, social prescribers & emergency responders – our walks & retreats are designed to support us all, a charitable organization in the Peak District that offers mental health support via therapeutic outdoor experiences.”
As you can see above, the weather wasn’t exactly fabulous—more from this Nine News Australia piece.
The Princess of Wales kept her planned outing to Yorkshire despite the UK’s third named storm for the season, Storm Chandra, delivering strong winds and heavy rains resulting in floods and fallen trees, power outages and road closures.
Here is a video from Kate Mansey of The Times.
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And from The Daily Mail’s coverage:
Wearing sturdy boots, gloves and a plait in her hair – which she did herself under a baker boy hat – the Princess spent 45 minutes in freezing, wet conditions walking to and from Baslow Edge in the Peak District, at around 300m altitude.
She stopped to see the spectacular view over the Derwent and Hope Valleys, with a brief pause in the rain timed perfectly for the short hike.
The Princess, who had made a point of checking whether participants still wanted to go ahead in challenging weather conditions, said ‘nothing’ would have stopped her getting out into the hills.
We return to the Daily Mail story.
Asked as part of the group activity for ‘three words’ which summed up her experience, the Princess offered: ‘Mind, body and soul.’
Gesturing the view, she said the afternoon walk – and others like it – had made her ‘realise the world is so much bigger’, noting ‘you get so dragged into things’ and sometimes need to pause to notice the wider world outside.
During the walk, most of which took place away from the cameras, she took turns speaking to each walker to hear their mental health story.
And one final portion of The Daily Mail’s piece.
Bidding farewell to walkers, she asked them to keep in touch with how they were getting on.
‘It’s so nice to be able to get out,’ she told them. ‘I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. Now go and have a nice cup of tea!’
Now, for our look at what Kate wore for the day’s initial engagements. 
She wore her Large Scale Brown Herringbone Blazer ($929) by Holland Cooper, first noted in April 2025 when the Prince and Princess visited the Isle of Mull. As I wrote last year, “the style is 100% wool with a snug silhouette. It features princess seams, notched lapels, flap pockets, and bold logo buttons.”
It looked like the Princess was in a new pair of trousers by Jigsaw, the British brand’s Modern Crepe Wide Leg Trousers ($73 most recently, now sold out, available in other colors). The style is also available in other colors at Next. The trousers are made in a blend of polyester, viscose, and elastane, with a wide leg, side pockets, side zipper, and stitched center front seam. Thank you to Kate Middleton Styled on Instagram for this ID. 
Middleton Maven points out that this looks like the same turtleneck worn in February 2025 for a visit to Wales. 
It appears she was in a new pair of shoes that could be by Emmy London (new to us, at any rate), the label’s Josie Mid-Block Heel in chocolate suede. I show it below in the Low-Block heel, because the chocolate isn’t available online in this colorway. Thank you to Middleton Maven for this ID. 
A quick sidebar: Emmy is having its winter sale, with prices discounted up to 40% if you are looking to snag a pair of the brand’s shoes or a handbag.
Now we move to the more casual ensemble. 
The Princess wore her Dubarry of Ireland Friel Utility Jacket in ‘Olive’ (no longer available) that we first saw back in March 2020, along with her Seeland Hawker Pine Green Quilted Jacket.
Beneath the jacket, she may have been wearing the House of Bruar Merino Wool Roll Neck Turtleneck ($68) in racing green. Thank you to Shannon Lea for this ID via Middleton Maven.
The Princess repeated her Holland Cooper Jodhpur Jeans ($169), in chocolate brown. 
The Princess also wore her Berghaus Supalite Women’s Boots (£185, about $260 at today’s exchange rates).
She also had on her past-season grey knit snood from Brora and a baker boy cap that could be the House of Bruar Ladies Tweed 8-Piece Cap, worn in the recent Winter Nature video and shown below left, or her Really Wild past-season style, shown below right. 
And her Cartier Trinity Earrings. 
I will leave you with one more photo from today. 
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Kensington Palace posted this video of the wellness walk.
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The Royal Family Channel offers more than 12 minutes of coverage in this video.
Sally
Tuesday 27th of January 2026
Outdoor outfit, cute. Indoor, blaaaak. And no color again. Surprise, surprise.
Gill
Tuesday 27th of January 2026
Love the jacket and hat look. Not so keen on the tweed jacket with the trousers though due to the colour imbalance. Tuesday seems to be her away day - always remember Diana was Tuesdays & Thursdays.