The Princess of Wales has visited a women's prison in Cheshire where she talked to inmates in a mother-and-baby unit. On a visit to HMP Styal, in Wilmslow, Catherine was shown a project designed to forge strong and healthy relationships between mothers and babies "even in the most challenging of environments".

Mums who gave birth in a prison that has been dubbed ‘hell on earth’ have told the Princess of Wales childcare is better there than it is on the outside. Kate visited HMP Styal, a women’s prison in Cheshire,

Kate hears praise for prison nursery from former inmates - The Princess of Wales has made the promotion of the early years development of children one of the key elements of her public work.