Down-to-earth Duchess - Kate's Just Wild About Kids!

Shes in her comfort zonewith the littlies

Just five months after giving birth, the Duchess of Cambridge has returned from her maternity leave somehow looking more confident and relaxed than ever!

Showing no sign of the stress or sleep deprivation that usually comes from being a new mother-of-three, Kate, 36, breezed through a visit to London’s Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden, where she befriended a bunch of city children who were getting a chance to engage with the natural world.

Sporting a sleeker, slightly straighter hairstyle, the duchess –in $60 skinny jeans from Zara, a $785 silk shirt and the same pair of $945 boots she’s been wearing since 2004 – was unfazed as the kids descended on her, grabbing her hands and hugging her.

She laughed as a besotted four-year-old girl named Anwaar showed off with a plastic cup, then joined the kids on a “mini-beast hunt”, which saw them unearth frogs, toads, worms and other creepy-crawlies.

“I’m going to find a snake,” declared one girl, prompting a smile from Kate, who only found a slug. But it was clear the duchess wasn’t squeamish – she confessed she’d recently spent two hours on a “spider hunt” with her two eldest children, Prince George, five, and three-year-old Princess Charlotte.