Kate's call to try a little tenderness in the workplace

THE Princess of Wales delivered a rallying call to business leaders yesterday urging them to prioritise “time and tenderness” alongside profit and success.

- BY EMILY FERGUSON Royal Editor

Catherine speaking to companies in London yesterday

In her first public speech since she was diagnosed with cancer at the start of last year, following major abdominal surgery, Catherine, 43, opened a summit to encourage big business to invest in early childhood.

The Princess told industry leaders it is vital to build a loving home and ensure that the workplace safeguards wellbeing “just as much as productivity and success”.

Her passion for promoting early years stemmed from the “essential truth” that “the love we feel in our earliest years fundamentally shapes who we become and how we thrive as adults”.