Lavington School pupil Kate Armitstead was overwhelmed to meet the Queen on Tuesday after winning a competition through the TV programme Blue Peter.

Kate, 12, from Wedhampton, near Devizes, is the winner of the 12 to 14 year category in the competition to design a logo for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year.

Although her design will not be used to advertise the event, she was invited to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday with her mother Jane.

Mrs Armitstead said: “It was overwhelming. We were given a lovely tour and then taken to a room where all the different designs were laid out.

“Then the Queen came in and spoke to all the winners. She spoke to me as well, but I was so overwhelmed, I can’t remember what she said to me.”

Kate was more self-possessed. She said: “She (the Queen) said, congratulations, it’s a very nice design and asked, are you into art? She said she liked the colours.

“The design took me quite a while because I did a lot of other designs to see which was the best and then had to re-do this one.”

Mrs Armitstead said Kate’s success came as a huge surprise.

She said: “Art is not her thing but she is very creative. She watches Blue Peter but is not a big fan. She was very secretive about what she was doing. We didn’t know anything about her design. She did it all off her own bat and sent it in.

“It was a huge surprise when she was told she was in the top ten and we didn’t know she had actually won until last week.”

Kate has an older sister, Lucy, 13, also a pupil at Lavington School, who had to stay at home while Kate and Jane went to the Palace.

Mrs Armitstead said: “She has been wonderful. It is very difficult for a sibling in this kind of situation and she has just taken it in her stride.

“But we brought back a lot of goodies from the Palace, so I hope she feels better about it.”

Kate’s experiences will be shown on Blue Peter next Tuesday or Wednesday.