Kate Middleton Rewore Her Favorite Tweed Suit to a Children's Hospital Outing

Kate Middleton Rewore Her Favorite Tweed Suit to a Children's Hospital Outing·InStyle

Kate Middleton set off on a special outing on Tuesday morning (January 26) for an important cause.

The Duchess of Cambridge made her way to a creative workshop held by the National Portrait Gallery's Hospital Programme at the Evelina London Children's Hospital to spend some time with the children there. Her aim? To see how arts programs are helping to support the children's health and happiness.

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Karwai Tang/WireImage

Kate came clad in a black Dolce and Gabbana tweed skirt suit to spend time with the kids, a look that she played up with black Gianvito pumps, black tights, and her flowing chestnut locks pulled back in an elegant, half-up, half-down style. She accessorized the fashionable outfit with a pair of diamond Mappin & Webb Empress earrings as well as a plain black clutch.

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Kate spent some time along children at the hospital who dabbled in photography, 3D set design, and illustration. As a photography buff herself, Kate was in her element, as it's one of her specialties, having studied art history at the University of St. Andrews before meeting Prince William.

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Samir Hussein/WireImage

The Duchess's passion for photography stretches far beyond this recent outing, and she even took photos of Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren in a series of snapshots posted to Instagram.

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As part of the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, The Duchess of Cambridge has taken photographs of two Holocaust survivors with their grandchildren. The first photograph features Steven Frank with his granddaughters, Maggie and Trixie. Alongside his mother and brothers, Steven was sent to Westerbork transit camp then to Theresienstadt. Steven and his brothers were 3 of only 93 children who survived the camp - 15,000 children were sent there. The Duchess also photographed Yvonne Bernstein with her granddaughter Chloe. Yvonne was a hidden child in France, travelling in the care of her aunt and uncle and frequently changing homes and names. The Duchess said: “I wanted to make the portraits deeply personal to Yvonne and Steven – a celebration of family and the life that they have built since they both arrived in Britain in the 1940s. The families brought items of personal significance with them which are included in the photographs. It was a true honour to have been asked to participate in this project and I hope in some way Yvonne and Steven’s memories will be kept alive as they pass the baton to the next generation.” The portraits will form part of a new exhibition opening later this year by @holocaustmemorialdaytrust, Jewish News and @royalphotographicsociety , which will feature 75 images of survivors and their family members. The exhibition will honour the victims of the Holocaust and celebrate the full lives that survivors have built in the UK, whilst inspiring people to consider their own responsibility to remember and share the stories of those who endured Nazi persecution. Portraits ©The Duchess of Cambridge

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"The harrowing atrocities of the Holocaust, which were caused by the most unthinkable evil, will forever lay heavy in our hearts," Kate wrote in an Instagram post. "Yet it is so often through the most unimaginable adversity that the most remarkable people flourish. Despite unbelievable trauma at the start of their lives, Yvonne Bernstein and Steven Frank are two of the most life-affirming people that I have had the privilege to meet. They look back on their experiences with sadness but also with gratitude that they were some of the lucky few to make it through. Their stories will stay with me forever."

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