Duchess Kate, Will and Harry play goofy with kids for charity
The young royals — Duchess Kate, Prince William and Prince Harry — demonstrated again Monday they're game for any goofy gambol with adorable children, especially for charity.
Shortly before the trio are due to glam up the Spectre premiere Monday night, they joined a gaggle of kids at another premiere — the animated special Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas.
The event, connected to their joint Charities Forum, took place at BAFTA headquarters in London, and involved joining the kids in making models of Shaun the Sheep, participating in craft activities, competing in "welly wanging" (tossing kiddie wellies), and taking part in an on-stage live animation demonstration organized by Aardman Animation, maker of the Shaun the Sheep films.
"Make Catherine do a silly walk!" shouted mischievous Will from the audience, as Kate joined a little girl on stage to act out a skit. And she did, judging from the Kensington Palace tweets.
Later, the palace tweeted the final edit.
The former Kate Middleton (Catherine is her real name but the royals are about the only people who regularly call her that) was dressed in a below-the-knee frock in a space-inspired blue-white-and-black pattern by a British designer, Tabitha Webb (favored by her sister Pippa Middleton), that costs nearly $600.
Later, she wore a pale blue, see-through Jenny Packham gown to the royal premiere of the 24th James Bond thriller.
Back at the charity event, Will and Harry competed with each other at welly wanging (it's a British thing, involving throwing small Wellington rubber rain boots as far as possible), and left-handed Will did better than Harry, and both did better than Kate.
Harry, who is due in Washington D.C. Wednesday to join first lady Michelle Obama and second lady Jill Biden at an event to support military families and wounded warriors, and to promote his Invictus Games in Orlando in May, was his usual charming self, according to the royal reporters on the scene.
Even royal reporters, usually fairly jaded about royal engagements, were impressed by the event.