A child rarely announces that something is wrong. More often it shows up sideways, in a sudden quietness, a lost interest in things they used to enjoy, a mood nobody can quite explain. Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has spent much of her public work focused on exactly that gap, the space between a child struggling and a child being able to say so. "People often ask me why I am so interested in the mental health of children and young people," she said. "The answer is quite simple, it is because I think that every child should have the best possible start in life." It is a fairly ordinary sentence on its own, but it sits behind years of consistent public work she has built specifically around that idea.
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