Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, 39, has been a member of the Royal Family since 2011 and has devoted much of her time as a senior royal to early childhood education.

For over a decade, Catherine has worked to understand and highlight the significance of a child’s early years in molding the person they become.

The Duchess of Cambridge has now established her own Centre for Early Childhood in order to promote awareness of the significance of the early years and “transform lives”

Duchess Kate has announced The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, a center inside the Cambridges’ charity vehicle that will advocate for greater awareness of and new study into the effect of the early years.

Kensington Palace called the center a “a landmark step” in her career.

The 39-year-old Duchess of Cambridge says she wants to “raise awareness of why the first five years of life are just so important for our future life outcomes, and what we can do as a society to embrace this golden opportunity to create a happier, more mentally healthy, more nurturing society.”

According to a royal adviser, Kate views early learning as the “the social equivalent of climate change” and wants the center to have a transformational effect on society.

A Kensington Palace spokesperson responded to Kate’s optimism for the project, saying, “The duchess has made the observation that the more you learn about the science of early childhood, whether it’s brain development, social science, what it means for our adult mental health, the more you realise that this is the social equivalent to climate change.”

“But it is not discussed with the same seriousness or strategic intent that that issue is.” they said.

Catherine, wearing a necklace engraved with her children’s initials, said in a video to mark the launch of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, “Working closely with others, the centre hopes to raise awareness of why the first five years of life are just so important for our future life outcomes, and what we can do as a society to embrace this golden opportunity to create a happier, more mentally healthy, more nurturing society.

“By working together, my hope is that we can change the way we think about early childhood, and transform lives for generations to come.”

In response to Kate’s vision, a Palace official said, “The centre’s mission is to drive awareness of and action on the extraordinary impact of the early years, changing what we think and do in early childhood in order to transform society for generations to come.”

“That’s a big mission and vision but we’re going to be grounded in some really tangible, practical actions.”

They said of Kate’s commitment to early childhood education, “It’s this 10-year journey that has influenced the character and mission of this new centre.”

The center, which will initially employ a few people, seeks to promote and commission research, collaborate with the public, commercial, and volunteer sectors to find solutions, and develop creative campaigns to raise awareness and inspire change.

According to royal aides, one of those topics might be looking at ways to make the science of early infant brain development more appealing to a teenage audience, which could be useful when they become parents themselves.

The Royal Foundation has released the study Big Change Starts Small, which pulls together studies on the early years, to coincide with the center’s opening. The study, written in conjunction with Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child and the London School of Economics, also investigates the economic impact of addressing issues later in life that might have been prevented by early childhood intervention.

“Our first five years lay important foundations for our future selves,” Kate says in the report’s letter. “This period is when we first learn to manage our emotions and impulses, to care and to empathize, and thus ultimately to establish healthy relationships with ourselves and others.”

“It is a time when our experience of the world around us, and the way that moulds our development, can have a lifelong impact on our future mental and physical wellbeing. Indeed, what shapes our childhood shapes the adults and the parents we become,” she adds.