ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br /> <br />STORY: The Duchess of Cambridge visited the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday (April 24) in London.<br /> <br />The Duchess, also known as Kate, is patron of the Art Room at the gallery, a charity which works with children and uses art to raise their self-esteem and independence.<br /> <br />The event, which had an audience of 250 school children, artists and supporters of the Art Room, marked the charity's 11th anniversary and launched a new fundraising campaign.<br /> <br />Standing at the podium in a duck-egg blue empire-line Emilia Wickstead cocktail dress, Kate told her audience that she felt "immense pride" in the work the charity did.<br /> <br />"At a time when it is most needed - children and young people can be helped to follow the path that will ensure that they have the best possible future," she said.<br /> <br />Kate also spent some time with the children at the event who use the Art Room facilities in Oxford and London. The Duchess was then accompanied by
