Prince William 明らかにする／漏らすd Princess Charlotte's favourite joke this morning during a surprise school visit on a day of 約束／交戦s in the West Midlands.?
The 未来 King dropped in on?Freddie Hadley, 12, St Michael's Church of England High School in Rowley Regis, Sandwell, after the youngster wrote to the Prince of むちの跡s last year?招待するing him to see their mental health 率先s.
During the visit, the Prince joined Freddie and his classmates for a segment on the school's 無線で通信する 駅／配置する, where he was asked to 株 a 'dad joke'.
He said: 'I'm 肉親，親類d of trying to channel Jack Whitehall, because most of his jokes are pretty dad-like.'
The 王室の then told a knock-knock joke about 'Interrupting Cow' instead, 説 it's 現在／一般に Princess Charlotte's favourite, 追加するing: 'That's one I hear a lot at home at the moment.'
Prince William 明らかにする／漏らすd Princess Charlotte 's favourite joke this morning during a surprise school visit on a day of 約束／交戦s in the West Midlands where he joined Freddie Hadley (centre) on the school's 無線で通信する 駅／配置する?
Prince William speaks with students during a?visit to St. Michael's Church of England High School in Rowley Regis today
William is snapped shaking 手渡すs with 12-year-old Freddie Hadley,?who made the 初期の 招待 to visit the school
During his visit, William met 代表者／国会議員s of Student 発言する／表明する and had conversations with students about mental health
Inside the school William was taken to 会合，会う the school's 'wellbeing 支持する／優勝者s' and 手渡すd a cup of 'positivity-tea'
In a punchline some may have 予報するd, as the others around the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する tried to ask: 'Interrupting Cow who?' the 王室の let out an abrupt 'moo'.
As some laughed and some groaned at the quip, William 主張するd it was the best joke he could think of that was 'clean' and 'broadcast-able'.?
The Prince of むちの跡s also thanked the 駅／配置する and the school for welcoming him - にもかかわらず the fact he supports Aston 郊外住宅.
Freddie Hadley, 12, 地位，任命するd his letter on X, 以前は Twitter, on World Mental Health Day last October telling the 王室の about the brilliant work he and his friends at St Michael's Church of England High School in Rowley Regis, Sandwell, were doing.
To his delight, William 本人自身で replied, 令状ing: 'Good afternoon Freddie, I'm so sorry Catherine and I can't be with you and the 残り／休憩（する） of the students at St Michael's today. '取り組むing mental health challenges and stigmas 長，率いる on is so important, please keep up this important work. W'
Freddie's letter 明確に had a 深く，強烈に moving 影響 o n the prince, who asked his team to 内密に arrange a visit to the school next time he was planning public 約束／交戦s in the West Midlands.
And today he shocked the schoolboy and his classmates by arriving unannounced as the first of three 約束／交戦s in the 地域.
It is the first time that William has undertaken what is known as a '王室の away day' since news of the Princess of むちの跡s' 癌 diagnosis and 治療 was 公然と 発表するd.
Freddie had no idea that the Prince was going to visit - instead he and his fellow pupils were told to 準備する for a VIP guest….The Lord 中尉／大尉／警部補 of the West Midlands.
But when he saw William get out of the car, his 直面する broke into a 幅の広い grin.
The Prince of むちの跡s decided to tell what he said was Princess Charlotte's favourite joke at the moment?
During his visit William joined a 開会／開廷／会期 with the Matrix 事業／計画（する） which was 始める，決める up to 向こうずね a スポットライト on male mental health
The Prince of むちの跡s surprised schoolboy Freddie Hadley, 12, as he arrived at his school in the West Midlands today
Prince William speaks to school children during his visit to?Rowley Regis today
William spoke to children about mental health 率先s during his visit today
The Prince of むちの跡s has arrived at a school in the West Midlands to surprise a schoolboy who 以前 wrote to him
During the visit, William 明らかにする／漏らすd that when he began 請け負うing 王室の work, he never 最初 ーするつもりであるd to look into mental health as his most 支持する／優勝者d 原因（となる）
The Prince of むちの跡s looks 深い in thought as he speaks with students using the 'Talking （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs' 率先 today
Prince William waves to （人が）群がるs of 王室の fans as he visits a school in Sandwell today
'So this is the young lad who started it all off,' William said. 'Very nice to see you, thank you for your letter.'
'You're very welcome,' replied Freddie. 'Did you think you would get a 返答, like that?' asked William.? 'Yes I did,' Freddie said.
?'Oh you did, that's 信用／信任, ' laughed William. 'Why did you decide to 令状 to me?'
Freddie explained that he had been very impressed with the 王室の's work on mental health 問題／発行するs.
The prince apologised for not 存在 able to come when he was first 招待するd on world Mental Health Day but said he hope he had made up for it.
Inside the building William told one member of staff: ' Lots of people 令状 letters but Freddie's was a really 井戸／弁護士席 written letter. I 約束d I would come. '
He 追加するd: 'I am sorry Catherine can't be here 同様に. She would have loved to [have come].'
A clip filmed outside the school showed William and Freddie 深い in conversation as the 未来 King spoke to the schoolboy about his letter.
The Prince of むちの跡s congratulated Freddie on his 率先 and told him: '井戸／弁護士席 done you, I'm here now.'?
As the others in 出席 chucked, he 追加するd: 'Your letter worked. I'm sorry I couldn't come to you in October.'?
Later in the visit, the Prince joined Freddie and his classmates for a segment on the school's 無線で通信する 駅／配置する, where he was asked to 株 a 'dad joke'.
The father-of-three went on to 株 a quip that he （人命などを）奪う，主張するd is Princess Charlotte's favourite.
He said: 'I'm 肉親，親類d of trying to channel Jack Whitehall, because most of his jokes are pretty dad-like.'
The Prince of むちの跡s also thanked the 駅／配置する and the school for welcoming him - にもかかわらず the fact he supports Aston 郊外住宅.?
During the same conversation, William 明らかにする／漏らすd that when he began 請け負うing 王室の work, he never 最初 ーするつもりであるd to look into mental health as his most 支持する／優勝者d 原因（となる）.?
William's a 攻撃する，衝突する with the kids! As he said goodbye to pupils at the school, he chatted to each of them and shook 手渡すs
Pupils 熱望して lined up to shake 手渡すs with the Prince of むちの跡s before he left St Michael's
William said goodbye to the pupils of St Michael's before 長，率いるing to his second 約束／交戦 of the day
It appeared William was a 攻撃する，衝突する with the schoolchildren as he gave them a 二塁打 wave upon leaving?
The 王室の, 41, said goodbye to the schoolchildren after his 簡潔な／要約する visit as he 長，率いるd to his other 約束／交戦s
A 王室の wave goodbye: William 企て，努力，提案 別れの（言葉，会） to the children before getting in the car to を回避する for his next 約束／交戦
The Prince of むちの跡s shook 手渡すs with Freddie's peers and other pupils at St Michael's, who all seemed excited to see him
The 王室の seemed to enjoy more jokes with the pupils as he shook 手渡すs before 説 goodbye?
Some of the children who had 列d up to 会合，会う Prince William appeared bashful after 会合 him?
A 調印する reading: 'Am I manly enough' was up in one of the rooms at the school, 示唆するing the mental health 率先 取り組むs men's wellbeing
In keeping with the 主題 of the day of 保存するing good mental health, William sipped on a brew in a 襲う，襲って強奪する which read: 'Positivi-Tea'
He said:? 'So it started really when I was doing lots of charitable work. I never 始める，決める out to look into mental health, 特に men's mental health. I was 利益／興味d in homelessness, I was 利益／興味d in 不景気 and 中毒…all these separate areas and hadn't really put them all together as a jigsaw. What's the bigger piece here. What are we trying to 直す／買収する，八百長をする?
'My passion has now moved into male mental health because of the stats you について言及するd at the beginning. The 自殺 率 in young men is just terrifying and I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do something about it.?
'I realised that you have got to get more upstream. The その上の you can come into 妨げるing it the more you will have success. If we just を取り引きする curing it all the time, we aren't 現実に going to get ahead of it.
'From there we met a lot of people in the 部門 and realising how terrified a lot of people were about talking about it. This is 容認できない, we have got to be able to talk about it.'
William continued: 'what was やめる 利益／興味ing was when we first started talking about mental health, not one celebrity 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk about it. Not one. And for several years we couldn't anyone who 手配中の，お尋ね者 to join us on the （選挙などの）運動をする.?
'Now you can't keep celebrities 静かな talking about mental health. My next challenge is to find the next thing that society doesn't want to talk about.?
'There are a lot of people who are やめる 率直に afraid to talk about what are very normal feelings. '?
Afterwards William joined a large groups of children for individual 'talk （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs', 含むing one where they were asked to place phrases associated with different emotions. 'It's amazing how の近くに 苦悩 and 恐れる are,' he 発言／述べるd. 'It's やめる telling'.
St. Michael's 雇うs a whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing and in May 2022 達成するd a gold 基準 award by the Carnegie Centre of Excellent for Mental Health in Schools.
William 迎える／歓迎するs children at St Michael's Church of England High School today
The Prince of むちの跡s apologised that his wife Kate could not …に出席する the visit with him?
12-year-old?Freddie Hadley 最初 s ent a letter to the Prince of むちの跡s in the hopes of getting a 返答?
Little Freddie, pictured, wrote to the Prince of むちの跡s last year 知らせるing him about a mental health 率先 he and his friends have 始める，決める up at school
Freddie and William appeared 即時に engaged in conversation after 会合, as the Prince has arrived to learn more about Freddie's work in mental health
William looked sharp in a 黒人／ボイコット 控訴 with a 黒人／ボイコット skinny tie as he arrived at the school as the first of three 約束／交戦s in the West Midlands today
Hundreds of students at?St. Michael's Church of England High School 熱望して を待つ the Prince?
Prince William looked sharp in a dark 控訴 with a blue checked shirt and a skinny 黒人／ボイコット tie as he smiled upon arrival?
Freddie Hadley said he was? 'delighted' his work paid off and he was 迎える／歓迎するd with a visit from Prince William. Pictured with parents Sonya and Stuart Hadley?
Freddie Hadley, 12, wrote to the Prince of むちの跡s last year telling him about the 率先 he and his peers have 始める，決める up to h elp pupils manage their mental health
After 最初 sending his 陳謝s for not 存在 able to visit Freddie and his classmates, William gave St Michael's school a wave today ahead of his arrival
The school 開始する，打ち上げるd ' Student 発言する／表明する' in 2012, consisting of up to 100 students who 会合，会う at lunchtimes, after school, in the evenings and during school periods to develop 率先s 範囲ing from fundraising to mental health, 含むing working with 年輩の members of the community.
It's team of enthusiastic student Wellbeing 外交官／大使s also help design and 器具／実施する a 範囲 of 率先s to support students.?
Inside the school William was taken to 会合，会う the school's 'wellbeing 支持する／優勝者s' and 手渡すd a cup of 'positivity-tea'. He cupped his 手渡すs around it and said he was glad it was still hot.?
'I hope you're not disappointed,' he told the pupils who had only just discovered he was the VIP guest. 'It could have gone either way.'
The children 老年の between 12 and 15 talked him through the incredible work the school has 存在 doing around mental health, 含むing their 21 days of 親切 ーするために form a a habit.
As they went 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する William grinned in 賞賛, 発言／述べるing: 'Wow, 井戸／弁護士席 done everyone. And you can do it all so 急速な／放蕩な. These are all things you guys have been doing? You've been busy.
'What's been the biggest challenge? ' The pupils told him they had been 決定するd to foster a sense of positivity. 'We try to 打ち勝つ the bumps in the road,' the Prince was told.?
'And what does mental health mean to you guys?' William asked. 'Does it get a good reaction now? Do people still feel a bit shy? '
'It's the feeling you have about yourself,' another pupil told him, 'You chose your own label.'
After his visit to the school, William travelled to an 雇用 centre in Birmingham
Prince William 会合，会うs?parents Evan, 権利, and Cambry Yoder with baby Harry during the 公式の／役人 開始 of a new 雇用 centre
The couple spoke to the 王室の as he opened the new 雇用 centre today?
The Prince of むちの跡s opened a?new 雇用 技術s training and community outreach centre for Betel UK, a charity for people 影響する／感情d by homelessness and 中毒
The 王室の chatted to staff at the new 雇用 centre after visiting a school?
Homelessness is a 原因（となる） that is very important to William, since from from a young age?
William speaks to staff as he 公式に opens a new 雇用 技術s training and community outreach centre in??Birmingham
William 雑談（する）s to staff members as he opens new 雇用 centre to help those 影響する／感情d by homelessness and 中毒
During his visit, William met 代表者／国会議員s of Student 発言する／表明する and joined a 開会／開廷／会期 with the Matrix 事業／計画（する）, which was 始める，決める up to 向こうずね a スポットライト on male mental health and sees boys 老年の 11-14 会合，会う 週刊誌 to develop ideas and 事業／計画（する）s to 取り組む mental health challenges.
The group 開始する，打ち上げるd its #AmIManlyEnough （選挙などの）運動をする last year to 取り組む the stigma aroundmale mental health and encourage men and boys to communicate more about their feelings.
He also joined a workshop with a larger group of students who were discussing a 範囲 of 問題／発行する s 関係のある to mental health and wellbeing, 含むing designing their own 静める 道具s and their dream wellbeing 中心.
'Did the 統計（学） around male 自殺 脅す you guys into doing something?' William asked the group.
He was told that the boys felt there should be as much 焦点（を合わせる） on make mental health as there is on women and girls.
'Why do you think men find it so difficult to talk about how they feel?' Asked the Prince.
Freddie explained that many still felt it wasn't 'a masculine thing to do' to talk about their feelings. 'They are told to suck it up,' he said .
The prince was shown pink cups 耐えるing the logo 'Am I Manly Enough?' which teachers at the school are encouraged to use in class to foster discussion of the 問題／発行する and challenge the 伝統的な 'blue is for boys' stereotype.
'Do you feel there is enough space in schools to talk about these things?' He asked. He was told that St Michael's is 'a very special' place.
He was also shown their knitted mascot, Terry the 海がめ, 指名するd because it swims against the tide and has a shall to hide in. 'They also live for a very long time,' 発言／述べるd the prince.
William's 追加するd that it was important to be 'light' いつかs when talking about mental health.
'It's important to be light and a have a laugh about it. 株ing stuff can いつかs be やめる scary and having a laugh can 緩和する the 重荷（を負わせる）,' he said.
In his letter to William last year Freddie neatly wrote that he and his friends had 始める，決める up #AMIMANLYENOUGH? with the 目的（とする） of 取り組むing the stigma that 'girls cry and boys get mad'.
'Through our work we discovered that 自殺 is the biggest 殺し屋 in young males and this won't change unless people start the conversation,' he wrote, with 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の 成熟.
'Our passion for mental health has given us 適切な時期s to organise and lead community events, 現在の at 国家の 会議／協議会s, 参加する 無線で通信する interviews and even 伸び（る） celebrity 裏書，是認.'
William smiles as he 小衝突s a Guinea Pig at the?Woodgate Valley 都市の Farm today in?Birmingham
Animal lover William is snapped 一打／打撃ing a chicken at a farm in?Birmingham today
The visit to?Woodgate Valley 都市の Farm is the third 場所 on his day of 王室の visits to the area?
The Prince of むちの跡s watches a volunteer feeding the sheep at the farm today
He 招待するd the 相続人 to the 王位 to join the 'soft 開始する，打ち上げる' of their （選挙などの）運動をする on World Mental Health Day as their VIP guest.
And while William had to 残念に 拒絶する／低下する on that occasion, he made his mind up to go and see their work in 活動／戦闘 at some point in the 近づく 未来.
On leaving the school he earned a 激しく揺する-星／主役にする 別れの（言葉，会）, 存在 叫び声をあげるd at and waved to by hundreds of children, both inside and outside the building, shaking as many 手渡すs as he could.
Afterwards Freddie said he had been 誘発するd to 令状 to William because 'male mental health is such a 大規模な topic'.
He said: 'Men don't open up as much about their feelings as 女性（の）s and we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make a 肯定的な 衝撃. Prince William does a lot of things around male mental health and we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to get my letter out there and see if he recognised us, which he did. It's been such a 広大な／多数の／重要な day.
'I had no idea he was coming. When he was coming 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the corner I thought 'that doesn't look like the Lord 中尉／大尉／警部補' and when he got out I thought 'that's Prince William!'
'I was so shocked. It was crazy. I was not 推定する／予想するing him to walk 負かす／撃墜する the 運動. It means to me that he has recognised what we are doing. I can't get my words out. He didn't really tell a dad joke but it was a knock knock joke, so that was ok and it was funny.
'Mental health is such a special topic in our school. It was really special to have him recognise us.'
Kerry Whitehouse, 上級の mental health lead at the school, said it had been hard to keep the secret of William's visit, 追加するd it: 'It was 堅い not to tell them how special the 訪問者 was. '?
The city farm is 献身的な to supporting children and young people struggling to 接近 education and those experiencing mental health challenges
William 雑談（する）s to a girl as they 小衝突 their?Guinea Pigs at the farm today
The 未来 King interacted with staff and volunteers at the farm today as he 伸び（る）s an insight into the work they do?
William sits on a （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する and 雑談（する）s to both volunteers and children at the farm today
William points to a chicken as he visits a city far m in Birmingham today that supports children and young people?
長，率いる Christina Handy-Rivett 追加するd of the prince's 初期の 決定／判定勝ち（する） to receive a personal tweet from William: 'It was remarkable, jaw-dropping. We didn't 心配する what would come from Freddie's 'X' 地位，任命する. '?
She explained that Freddie subsequently received a letter from William, which left him trembling but couldn't believe it when a visit was the 提案するd.
'As he saw His 王室の Highness walk out of the car he turned and said 'wait a minute, that's Prince William'. It was wonderful to see his joy,' she said.
'William was so amazing with the students. He settled their 神経s so quickly though. He is very authentic. You can see that in him. And he really listened to them. It's a 価値のある 技術.
'I might have a little cry later on. We are all very emotional. The reaction from the students was beautiful. With everything he is going through 本人自身で at the moment, to make that time for us, was wonderful .'
The Prince of むちの跡s then left the school and travelled to an 雇用 centre in Birmingham.
He opened a new 職業 技術s training and community outreach centre for Betel UK, a charity for people 影響する／感情d by homelessness and 中毒 at their （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Birmingham.?
取り組むing homelessness is very important to William and has been since he was a young 十代の少年少女.
によれば 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Richard Kay, who was friends with Princess Diana, the 王室の was 13 when he said: 'If I become King, I will let the homeless live in ou r palaces.'
The 未来 King then also stopped by Woodgate Valley 都市の Farm, a city farm 献身的な to supporting children and young people struggling to 接近 education and those experiencing mental health challenges.
At the farm he 小衝突d Guinea Pigs and chickens as he interacted with staff and volunteers to find out the work they do for the 地元の community.?
The prince also 明らかにする／漏らすd that he always gets 板材d with きれいにする out his children's guinea pigs cages at home because they forget to do it.?
