Princess Beatrice has urged students with dyslexia to view the condition as an “opportunity” and to not let it hold them back.
The Queen’s granddaughter, who herself was diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven, was speaking to dyslexic students during visits to two London schools.
She told them: “Dyslexia is not a pigeonhole to say you can’t do anything. It is an opportunity and a possibility to learn differently.
“You have magical brains, they just process differently. Don’t feel like you should be held back by it.”
The princess visited both the Globe Academy in Elephant and Castle and Bolingbroke Academy in Clapham to witness the work of the Drive for Literacy programme.
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