The Princess of Wales has had a busy week of engagements travelling up and down the country, meeting people everywhere she goes.
Most people that she meets are greeted with a warm smile, a cheery hello and a traditional handshake.
But in both her outings this week, she was snapped in several much more affectionate greetings - debunking claims made in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Netflix series.
In the show, which saw many accusations levelled against the royal family, Meghan took aim at Kate claiming she was "surprised" by the behind-the-scenes formality.
She recalls a dinner party with Prince William and Kate during the early days of her relationship with Harry when the two couples lived just a few doors apart at Kensington Palace.
Speaking in episode two of the six-part Harry & Meghan Netflix, she said: "When Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped jeans and I was barefoot.
"I was a hugger. I've always been a hugger, I didn't realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.
"I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside."
"There is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and go 'You can relax now', but that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me."
But this week, during a visit to Landau Forte College in Derby to meet Captain Preet Chandi, she embraced the explorer in a huge hug.
Preet had recently returned from a polar trek across the Antarctic, with the princess a patron of the expedition.
When the two women met at the college they enjoyed an affectionate cuddle as Kate praised her efforts.
Then just a day later Kate was also seen hugging her former teacher after a surprise reunion with him.
It came as she and Prince William made their first official visit to Cornwall together since receiving special new titles - Duke and Duchess of Cornwall.
And after a tour of the museum, the royal couple were greeted by cheering crowds, with Kate surprised by Jim Embury, a former teacher from her prep school.
Kate said "Oh my goodness" and hugged Mr Embury, now a volunteer at the museum, before exclaiming: "I do recognise you."
"I remember the classroom and everything," she told him. "Are you based here now? And you are volunteering here? Wow. That is such a small world.
"I’m trying to teach my daughter all the things you probably taught me."
In a recent interview, Prince Harry admitted Kate and William didn't get on with Meghan "from the get-go.
Asked why the relationship got off on a bad note in a tell-all chat with ITV, Harry said there were "lots of different reasons".
He added: "I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get into a relationship with someone like Meghan, who had, you know, a very successful career.
"There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning."
Pushed on what he meant by that, Harry continued: "American actress, and that was playing out in the British press in the media at the time as well.
"I had that in the back of my mind, and some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in."
