THIS IS HOW PRINCE GUILLERMO AND KATE MIDDLETON EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN TO HAVE THE MOST NORMAL CHILDHOOD POSSIBLE
Little Charlotte turns 4 today. The effort so that their three children do not lack a normal childhood has been a constant throughout the marriage of the Dukes of Cambridge.
On April 29, 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were married with one determination: that their children could enjoy as normal a childhood as possible. After all, Kate Middleton grew up like any other girl, and Prince William was also anchored as a child to the real world by his mother, Princess Diana, who always tried to ensure that her children's childhood memories were not lacking like the typical excursion to the amusement park. Now that the future princes of Wales have celebrated eight years as married, let's review the steps they have taken to raise their three children: George, Charlotte and Louis.
The effort to give her children the most ordinary childhood possible has meant breaking with some traditions and norms of the British royal family. For example, with the one that encourages putting a certain distance between children born into royalty and their commoner grandparents. Carole Middleton, Kate's mother, has instead played a decisive role in the education of her grandchildren, thus strengthening the princes' relationship with life outside the palace.
In fact, when Prince George was born in 2013, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge lived for a few months without a nanny and entrusted the care of their first child to Carole Middleton. As published by The Daily Mail years ago, the influence on the children of their maternal grandparents is such that Prince Charles has come to feel “usurped”, a complaint similar to the one that Dona Sofía is supposed to have regarding her young granddaughters, the Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía.
The school education chosen by the Dukes of Cambridge also demonstrates that desire to give their children a normal childhood. Thus, both Prince George and Princess Charlotte attend coeducational institutions - George to Thomas' Battersea School and his sister to Willcocks Nursery - while both Prince William and Prince Harry were educated at Wetherby School, a single school. for male students. In addition, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge often take their children to school in person. "They are Prince William or Kate who take George to school, they are always very nice," the father of a schoolmate of Prince George told Vanity Fair recently. "Prince William loves to chat with other dads, and even works out with some moms at the Harbor Club gym after dropping him off in class."
The Dukes of Cambridge, however, are clear that their children, after all, are not just any children. To protect their privacy, in 2015 they issued a statement asking the media to leave children alone while they played with other children in public places. They also decided to build a "secret garden" at Kensington Palace so they could play there without being photographed, and to erect a hedge fence that prevents paparazzi from photographing them coming and going by helicopter.
Given their commitment to mental health through the Heads Together campaign, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have also made a special effort that their children, instead of displaying the famous British phlegm, are not afraid to express their feelings. . "Catherine and I are clear that we want both George and Charlotte to grow up being able to talk about their emotions and feelings," Prince William told CALM magazine a few years ago. To make it easier to do so, the dukes adopted a technique later imitated by celebrities such as Anne Hathaway: crouching down to the level of their children to speak to them face to face, thereby improving the child's self-esteem and encouraging them to communicate more.
