Professor Green has opened up about the moment his grandmother met Kate Middleton, with the rapper and his nan speaking about the importance of kinship carers.
The rapper, whose real name is Stephen Manderson, appeared on Good Morning Britain today to chat about kinship carers — someone who is looking after another person's child on a full-time basis — having been raised by his grandmother.
Speaking about the moment he took his Nanny Pat to meet Kate Middleton, Professor Green told hosts Ben Shepherd and Charlotte Hawkins: "It was amazing, not long after her 80th birthday. "She was 80 a little less than two weeks ago and she was nervous, excited and made sure she got a new blouse the day before. [She] had my Aunty Karen doing her hair the morning of.
She loved it, she was lovely.The [Princess] was so kind to her." On what the pair spoke about, the rappers said: "We had a conversation about what it was like [growing up], the challenges that [my grandmother] faced and she was asked whether she would have appreciated having a group like Kinship the charity to support her and she said, 'Well not really because I was too busy.' "She was working three jobs a day and she was just getting on with things as people did and still do and so many people still are.
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