Princess Kate’s sweet gesture for young girl who wanted to leave Corgi teddy as tribute for the Queen

KATE Middleton made a little girl “very happy” today as she went to leave a Corgi teddy for the Queen.

The Princess of Wales spoke with mourners as she viewed the sea of flowers left for Her Majesty in Sandringham this afternoon.

Elizabeth Sulkovska, eight, was among the crowd with school pals – and was said to have “cried with joy” when Kate singled her out.

In a sweet gesture, the princess walked with little Elizabeth to place a corgi teddy and bouquet of flowers among the tributes.

It comes as…

• Kate and Wills reveal how kids George, Charlotte and Louis are coping after their great-grandmother’s tragic death
• Sophie Wessex shares an emotional hug with a well-wisher at a memorial for Her Majesty
• Mourning Brits queue for hours to visit the late monarch’s coffin lying in state at Westminster Hall
• Prince Harry faces a lonely 38th birthday without children Archie and Lilibet
• Details of the Queen’s state funeral are revealed – from where William and Harry will stand to how Meghan will travel

Speaking after, the little girl’s headteacher Gregory Hill, of Howard Junior School in King’s Lynn, said: “Elizabeth was overwhelmed, she cried with joy at being chosen.

“It’s just a wonderful, amazing opportunity.”

William and Kate looked at the flowers and cards left in tribute to the late monarch outside her Sandringham estate in Norfolk this afternoon.

While there, Kate told one mourner their children – Prince George, nine, Princess Charlotte, seven, and four-year-old Prince Louis – were handling the tragedy of losing their great-grandmother well.

Lynne, from Wymondham in Norfolk, told the BBC: “My daughter Jo, who has a great affinity with children and knows that Kate does as well, asked her how the children were doing.

“Kate thanked her and said they were doing well and they were being looked after at school.”

Kate reportedly told another well-wisher that George understood that the Queen had died, but his younger siblings “less so”.

And William said it had been an incredibly difficult time for the family which had brought back memories of losing his mother in 1997.

A crowd member also told the emotional Prince she was close to tears, to which he replied: “Don’t cry now – you’ll start me.”

And he told a third mourner: “I’m learning that she was everyone’s grandmother – the way people have reacted.”

Next week, the Queen’s grandsons will follow their father King Charles, who will lead Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward to Wellington Arch from Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s funeral.

Meghan, Kate, Sophie Wessex and other royals will follow by car.

The funeral, conducted by the Dean of Westminster, will begin at 11am on Monday.