Ahead of the school year starting,Kate MiddletonandPrince Williammoved with their three children to Windsor to start a new life among the countryside.
Prince George, Princess CharlotteandPrince Louisare going to attend theprivate Lambrook School near Ascot in Berkshireafter the family moved into Adelaide Cottage in Windsor’s Home Park.
The family will use the pretty19th century Adelaide Cottage as their baseafterthe Queengave them permission to lease the four-bedroom Grade II listed home, which belongs to the Crown Estate.
Adelaide Cottage is said to be surrounded by plenty of land and greenery, including polo grounds nearby, though this is one aspect of royal life a sporty Kate has avoided thanks to her allergies.
In recent timesKate has been trying to overcome her horse allergy with immunotherapyand now that she is near a polo grounds, this could be doable.
Speaking toPeople magazine last year, Clarrisa Ru, wife of Santa Barbara Polo Club president Wesley Ru, explained that the Duchess was allergic to the animals, though she was working to overcome her allergy through exposure – a treatment called immunotherapy.
She said: “I got a chance to have a conversation with Kate. I asked if she was into polo before she met William. She said no. But she’s been riding horses for a while and she hopes to play polo one day.
“She said ‘I’m actually allergic to them, but the more time one spends with them the less allergic you become.’”
Immunotherapy, or desensitisation as it’s also known, is a way of weakening the body’s response to an allergen.
Desensitisation works through exposure to the allergen, so that the immune system gets used to the cause and can therefore change its response.
Aside from spending increasing amounts of time exposed to the allergen, as Kate is doing, medical treatment involves being given small doses of the allergen either as an injection or as drops or tablets under the tongue.
Typically treatment is administered over the course of several years.
As there’s a small risk of severe reaction,the NHS statesthat the injection can only be performed at a specialist clinic under the supervision of a doctor.
Though desensitisation doesn’t cure an allergy, it can reduce how allergic a person is to something.
Scientific studies have proved that immunotherapy successfully reduces the symptoms of allergies including hayfever, though it is also used for other specific allergens – such as horses – too.
Given that the treatment alters how you respond to an allergen, the immunotherapy can last for up to three years after it has been received.
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