Royal sources say Kate Middleton 'needs space and privacy' in update

Kate Middleton "won't return to work" until being given the "green light" by doctors. The Duchess of Cambridge and Cornwall, who is also the Princess of Wales, is reported to be in "need of the space and privacy to recover right now".

A senior royal aide told MailOnline: “The Princess of Wales was the driving force behind the business task force. She has been kept up to date since the inception of the task force and she has read the report and been briefed on it.

“This is a clear commitment she has made throughout her life of public service that this will be focus. That will continue when she returns to work. But we have been really clear that she needs the space and the privacy to recover right now.

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"She will return to work when she has had the green light from doctors.” Kate revealed her cancer diagnosis in March but she has read a 60-page report on her early years project and said to have been "kept up-to-date" with the work which is published today.

The mum-of-three, in a speech at Natwest HQ, said: "The healthy development of our children relies on healthy adults." The Princess of Wales is said to be keen to see "momentum grow in the coming months and years" as the project she created "is rolling on as she recovers."

A spokesman for the Princess of Wales said: "This should not be seen as the Princess of Wales returning to work. The work of the prince and princess's projects are always on. That is no different at The Centre for Early Childhood Over the past five months there has been a huge deal of progress.

"However, early childhood is a huge priority for the Princess of Wales. She has been kept fully up to date throughout the process and the development of the task force's work and she has seen the report."

Christian Guy, executive director of The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, said: "I know, having briefed the princess on this, that she is enormously grateful to the members of taskforce who have made such fantastic progress on this work over the last yea.

"She feels passionately about the transformational impact of getting this right, together with business both for current and generation and many more to come. And I know she is keen to encourage all businesses, no matter what their size of purpose, to join us on the journey.

"She is looking forward to seeing momentum grow in the coming months and years ahead."