Inside Windsor Farm Shop Princess Kate visited in outing with William as video shows her for first time since surgery
PRINCESS Kate was filmed visiting the Windsor Farm Shop with William in her first video since surgery.
Kate, 42, dressed down in a hoodie and leggings, carried her own shopping as she strolled through the car park at the shop.
The footage emerged just hours after The Sun exclusively revealed Kate had spent Saturday shopping in Windsor.
She visited the Royal Farms Windsor Shop, a short walk away from her home near Windsor Castle.
The shop was launched in November 2001 after Prince Philip came up with the idea of selling goods from the Royal Estates.
Philip hoped that the shop would support local suppliers and promote British produce.
The Farm Shop has a butchery selling beef, pork, chicken and lamb from animals reared on the estate.
The Windsor estate boasts 200 pedigree Jersey milking cows, a Sussex beef herd, 140 breeding sows and 1,500 Lohmann Brown hens.
Its pure-bred Sussex beef is matured for 21 days to maximise tenderness and maturity.
Staff make their own sausages from the 600 pigs who pass through the butchery each year.
The Royal Farm pigs are reared outside during the summer months to boost their health.
A coffee shop offers a vast selection of cakes, cream teas, fresh cream patisseries, sandwiches, paninis and salads.
Using produce from the Farm Shop, it also sells salads, pies, pasties and quiche.
The Farm Shop also sells a number of delicious luxury hampers in padded wicker baskets.
The £220 Large Hamper unboxed
Coxs Apple Juice
WFS Best Bitter
WFS London Dry Gin 35ml
WFS Irish Cream
WFS Cheese Board Chutney
WFS Brewers Real Ale Chutney
WFS Ginger & Whisky Marmalade Thick Cut
WFS Strong English Mustard
WFS Creamy Horseradish
Quince Fruits for Cheese
Duck Pate With A Slice Of Orange
Millers Ale Crackers
WFS Choc Chip Biscuit Drum
Windsor Assorted Chocolates
Windsor/Richmond Park Clear Honey
WFS English Breakfast Tea Caddy
Olive Oil & Sea Salt Crackers
WFS Mint Humbugs 160g
WFS Hand Broken Clotted Cream Fudge
WFS Rich Mixed Fruit Cake
Les Templiers Chardonnay
Les Templiers Cabernet Sauvignon
WFS Strawberry & Champagne Preserve
Kate’s visit comes amid weeks of vile and bullying online behaviour where wild conspiracy theories have been spread unchecked.
Some even refused to believe our front page yesterday, despite Wills and Kate having being spotted by members of the public.
The Sun last week called on the world to ‘Lay Off Kate’ after she was harshly criticised for editing her Mother’s Day family photo.
‘MADNESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA’
We have chosen to both report her appearance in yesterday’s paper, and show the footage today, in a bid to bring an end to what the Palace has called the “madness of social media”.
Despite appearing fit and healthy, the princess remains under medical guidance to keep off work until next month.
No date has yet been given for a return to public duty after her abdominal surgery more than eight weeks ago.
It is understood she will return to work when she is good and ready.
Princess Kate video shows she's recovering well & warms my heart, says The Sun's royal photographer Arthur Edwards
IT’S lovely to see Catherine looking so happy.
People keep asking me, ‘Where’s Kate? How’s Kate?’
These pictures are the answer. She’s obviously recovering well from the quite serious operation she had in January.
The images of her smiling really warm my heart and I’m sure millions of others will be so pleased to see the Princess out and about.
There have been so many rumours circulated about her on social media – but they can now be put to rest.
It was lovely to see William at Kate’s side. I bet other visitors to the farm shop couldn’t believe their eyes when they walked in.
But I know the shop and it’s close to their home and sells wonderful produce.
Kate was really hammered by some for doctoring her Mother’s Day picture.
I really felt for her – she was just trying to produce a lovely picture of her family.
So it’s nice to see these wonderful images of her with a beaming smiling and clearly working her way back to full health.
Now I’m so looking forward to her getting back to life as a working Royal, when she’s fully ready. She’s been missed by millions.
The Sun revealed yesterday that the Princess of Wales was well enough to go shopping at Windsor Farm shop.
Nelson Silva, 40, who took the video, was shopping for steak at the farm shop when he spotted Kate and William in the bread aisle.
He told The Sun: “I noticed a couple choosing loaves of bread and the woman turned her face and I felt like I had seen the face before. It was familiar. I knew it from somewhere.
“Then William turned back and I thought ‘hold on I know this person’. I said to the staff ‘I think it’s them’ as I paid.
“I went to my car and as they came out of the shop I just filmed them. I think they walked out through a gate out of the grounds. They just vanished and I didn’t see a car.
“I just wanted to share with my family footage and show just how normal they were.”
He said the couple had obvious “chemistry” and “were super relaxed”.
“I didn’t feel like they were hiding who they were. But they didn’t quite know how people would react because there has been this build-up about their whereabouts and I got the sense they just wanted to be swift in there.
“Kate looked happy and relaxed. They look happy just to be able to go to a shop and mingle. Kate looked relieved like it was a success going to a shop. It felt natural.”
Another eyewitness who watched the footage said it was “exactly what I saw”.
They added: “It’s just a woman shopping with her husband on a Saturday afternoon just like thousands of other couples across the country.
“I’m delighted that she is well and everyone else can see her back on her feet enjoying life again.”
On a busy weekend the princess also joined William to watch their children George, 10, Charlotte, 8, and Louis, 5, play sports together.
The first footage of Kate since Christmas Day shows the royal mum-of-three carrying a full shopping bag of goodies at the farm shop, just a mile from the Wales’ home at Adelaide Cottage, Windsor, on Saturday.
Princess Kate and William seemed like a normal couple... they were happy and relaxed, says witness who saw shopping trip
A DAD-of-one has told how he saw Princess Kate on a shopping trip with William.
Nelson Silva, 40, who took a video of the “relaxed” couple, was shopping for steak at the Windsor farm shop when he spotted Kate and William in the bread aisle.
He told The Sun: “I noticed a couple choosing loaves of bread and the woman turned her face and I felt like I had seen the face before. It was familiar. I knew it from somewhere.
“Then William turned back and I thought ‘hold on I know this person’. I said to the staff ‘I think it’s them’ as I paid.
“I went to my car and as they came out of the shop I just filmed them. I think they walked out through a gate out of the grounds. They just vanished and I didn’t see a car.
“I just wanted to share with my family footage and show just how normal they were.”
He said the couple had obvious “chemistry” and “were super relaxed”.
“I didn’t feel like they were hiding who they were. But they didn’t quite know how people would react because there has been this build-up about their whereabouts and I got the sense they just wanted to be swift in there.
“Kate looked happy and relaxed. They look happy just to be able to go to a shop and mingle. Kate looked relieved like it was a success going to a shop. It felt natural.”
DRESSED-DOWN
She was filmed on a mobile phone for several seconds walking side-by-side with her husband from the shop back towards the car park.
Kate, usually dressed in latest fashions for official royal occasions, still looked elegant in her weekend wear as she donned a black three-quarter zip hoodie and matching black leggings.
Providing a glimpse of Kate’s regular weekend ‘dress-down’ look she also wore grey socks pulled up over the bottom of her trousers and black trainers.
Kate appeared to be in good spirits smiling and speaking to William as her hair blew in the wind.
Wills wore a beige baseball cap, paired with a black rain jacket, blue denim jeans and grey trainers.
The future King also carried his bag with goods in from the Windsor Farm Shop.
And The Sun’s royal photographer Arthur Edwards has told how the footage has “warmed my heart”.
He added: “It’s lovely to see Catherine looking so happy. People keep asking me, ‘Where’s Kate? How’s Kate?’
“These pictures are the answer. She’s obviously recovering well from the quite serious operation she had in January.
“The images of her smiling really warm my heart and I’m sure millions of others will be so pleased to see the Princess out and about.
“There have been so many rumours circulated about her on social media – but they can now be put to rest.”
Kensington Palace maintains Kate is “doing well” and will offer only significant updates as she recovers.
She spent 13 nights in hospital after requiring major surgery to her abdomen on January 17 at The London Clinic.
The palace said at the time: “The Princess of Wales appreciates the interest this statement will generate. She hopes that the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible; and her wish that her personal medical information remains private.”
But in the past two months the internet has become a cesspit of unfounded gossip.
Conspiracy theories, which are far too ludicrous to be repeated in The Sun, spread around the internet.
Earlier this month a palace spokesman blasted the “madness of social media”.
Kensington Palace has always said she would be out of action until April. and only provide “significant” updates.
It is now believed that Kate may return after her children’s Easter school holidays in the middle of April.