Catherine met with a group of eight professionals, who have been appointed to offer her strategic advice and provide oversight of the work of her Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, in Berkshire this morning.

The team will support The Princess and the Centre as her work continues to promote the fundamental importance of the first five years of a child's life.

Advisory Group members are:

• Professor Peter Fonagy OBE, Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families

• Eamon McCrory, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology, University College London

• Dr Alain Gregoire, Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist and President and Founder of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance

• Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists

• Ed Vainker OBE, co-founder of Reach Academy Feltham,

• Carey Oppenheim, Project Lead at the Nuffield Foundation

• Imran Hussain, Director of Policy and Campaigns for Action for Children

• Beverley Barnett-Jones MBE, Associate Director at Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and Trustee at What Works in Children’s Social Care