She suggested that the BBC television crew use the garden of her London home to create the cozy studio, filmed sitting cross-legged on the floor and speaking directly into the camera.
The books are still being printed at HarperCollins, and are expected to benefit from the surge in sales that follows anything the Duchess inadvertently wears or promotes in public.
The Duchess follows in the footsteps of other celebrity guests on BBC’s Bedtime Story, with stars including Reese Witherspoon, Dolly Parton, Sir Derek Jacobi among the A-list stars recently on the air.
It has become famous not only for entertaining children before bedtime, but also for soothing their tired mothers, with Tom HardyRyan Reynolds, Regé-Jean Page, Tom Hiddleston, Orlando Bloom, James McAvoy, Damien Lewis, Joaquin Phoenix and Hollywood actor Chris Evans among the guests that led a women’s magazine to declare it “The Hottest Concert on TV.”
This is the third year that the Duchess has celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week online with his work in the development of the early years. This year’s theme is “grow together”.
Kensington Palace said the Duchess chose the book to align with the theme, with the baby owl protagonist overcoming his fear of the dark by talking to other people about it.
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