Prince George will turn 10 years old on July 22, so People Magazine gave him a cover story this week which makes it sound like the heir’s heir is being raised by a single mother. That might even be true! In fact, it’s likely the truth. People’s sources emphasize that both Prince William and Kate are “working to ensure he has a normal childhood while simultaneously preparing him to someday take the throne.” Doubtful, but let’s see where this goes. Some highlights:
Normal vs. royal childhood: “It’s a massive balancing act,” one palace insider tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story. “William and Kate are doing the right thing, protecting him so he can have as normal a childhood as possible, but he’s also dipping into duties as a future monarch.” The insider adds, “He’s getting firsthand experience of what it’s like to be a royal and a monarch and firsthand experience of being a normal boy.”
George got an official role in a coronation. “He was terrific,” says a close family friend. Prince William and Princess Kate, both 41, were aware of the pressure their eldest child would feel in the spotlight but felt he was ready for the task. Adds a guest, “The service was emotional and family-oriented and very inclusive — and George played his part.”
George is great because Kate is so common: But at home, Prince George has a very different upbringing than previous heirs to the throne, thanks in large part to his mother’s childhood outside the royal fold. “Coming from a different background, she appreciates the importance of having family time,” says a source close to the royal household. “She wasn’t brought up in that aristocratic setting where you see the children for a short time each day.”
Most evenings: Although they have the help of longtime nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo, Princess Kate regularly drives her kids to school and makes sure she or Prince William is home most evenings for their return. The family of five often gathers in the kitchen to make kid-friendly dinners and decorate cakes.
Carole & Mike’s heavy involvement: Kate’s parents are also heavily involved in Prince George and his siblings’ lives, with Carole Middleton taking George to his favorite candy shop, Mable’s Paint Pot, and on other outings in Kate’s hometown of Bucklebury.
Family foundations: Prince William and Princess Kate “consciously set out to achieve a sense of normality,” says a close source, and the couple was expressly permitted by Queen Elizabeth and then-Prince Charles to focus on family above royal duties. “Royal families over the generations haven’t had the chance to get those foundations right, but they have,” says a friend.
“The service was emotional and family-oriented and very inclusive — and George played his part.” The service was terribly white and “George played his part” is basically setting the bar at “the kid didn’t screw up.” Which is true, he did not screw up. He did fine. I think George is a normal kid most of the time, but he understands that he’s being treated much differently than his siblings, and that different treatment is reinforced at home and around the Middletons. But really, the point of this People story is to praise Kate for being such a normal mother. Only one nanny! So middle class! She’s not a Victorian mother! The bar is always set so low.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Cover Images, cover courtesy of People.
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- Watched by Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales (centre right) and Britain’s Prince George of Wales (R), Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, tries her hand at archery while taking part in the Big Help Out, during a visit to the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut in Slough, west of London on May 8, 2023, where the family joined volunteers helping to renovate and improve the building. – People across Britain were on Monday asked to do their duty as the celebrations for King Charles III’s coronation drew to a close with a massive volunteering drive.,Image: 774584543, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: DANIEL LEAL / Avalon
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- Watched by Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales (centre right) and Britain’s Prince George of Wales (R), Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, tries her hand at archery while taking part in the Big Help Out, during a visit to the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut in Slough, west of London on May 8, 2023, where the family joined volunteers helping to renovate and improve the building. – People across Britain were on Monday asked to do their duty as the celebrations for King Charles III’s coronation drew to a close with a massive volunteering drive.,Image: 774584555, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: DANIEL LEAL / Avalon
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- Traveling along The Mall in a carriage at Trooping The Colour. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince George Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Traveling along The Mall in a carriage at Trooping The Colour. Featuring: Prince Louis, Prince George Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, to view the flypast following the Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London, as King Charles III celebrates his first official birthday since becoming sovereign. Featuring: Prince George, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- On the balcony of Buckingham Palace, London, to view the flypast following the Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London, as King Charles III celebrates his first official birthday since becoming sovereign. Featuring: Prince George, Prince Louis Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- King Charles III leads members of The Royal Family on his first Trooping the Colour, the monarch’s official birthday parade Featuring: Prince William of Wales Catherine Princess of Wales with Prince George, Princess Charlotte Prince Louis Where: London, United Kingdom When: 17 Jun 2023 Credit: Dutch Press Photo/Cover Images **NOT AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE**
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- The Prince of Wales and Prince George watch from the box during day four of the second Ashes test match at Lord’s. Featuring: Prince William, Prince George Where: London, United Kingdom When: 01 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I guess normal is relative, right? nothing about these kids’ lives will ever be “normal”. And the line about having “help” from Nanny Maria ……like she’s not the one doing the bulk of the childcare…..and “decorating cakes” in the kitchen….. they’re trying just a little too hard here with this story.
And kate did not grow up outside of aristo circles. She literally went to school with them. They might have treated her as an outsider but this isn’t the cinderella story these rags are trying to make it to be.
Yes but culturally at home she probably did. You know, I’m starting to wonder if the proof will be in the pudding here. Will & Harry had to grow up under an enormous microscope and it will be worse for these 3 in the internet/social media age since birth. Harrys’s taken his kids out of it to a large degree (as much as he can) and Will and Kate are taking a MUCH different approach than Elizabeth & Philip and even than Diana & Charles to some degree. Maybe those boys have both decided “f the monarchy” to some degree in how they are living their lives in terms of work and duty vs family? If the kids come out better for it, I guess good for them! Now whether the taxpayer should be paying for the Wales’ under such reduced-work circumstances may still be an issue…
Will and Kate trot out those children a lot. They are treating the heir as more special as well.
Tbh, I’m not sure about K’s relationship to the aristocracy—they don’t seem to have accepted her entirely. However you know one of her guiding lights was her MIL, Diana, who was part of the aristocracy AND a good mother.
The decorating of cakes: CarolE’s Party Pieces idea was supposedly born in the kitchen during K’s 5th birthday.
Also note that kate “regularly” drives them to school. That’s very vague and could mean a lot.
(During the battersea days the locals complained about the cars they used to drop off George and Charlotte and noted that it was rarely kate and William with them).
Yeah Becks1, that bit about Kkkhate gathering her kids around the hearth to make child-friendly dinners and decorate cakes was just too much. Sometimes writing embiggening, sycophantic articles requires the same vilgilance that accessorizing an outfit does – when you think you’re all set, take off one item. In this case, they should have dropped the cake decorating drivel.
They seem to be creating scenarios based upon past photos. Y’all remember that photo of Kate & the kids decorating cupcakes in one of her many kitchens? Don’t remember the occasion, but I bet they’re just spinning a yarn from that. And then the driving the kids to/from school–good gad, how many times are we going to have to read about that? And that’s based on what, one or two photos over the years? And I find it insulting to see all these articles about how the nanny ‘helps’–that nanny is doing her job, she is working for a living!
I always got the impression cooking “fun” things and baking with the children was the main thing Kate did with them – along with going swimming, to a tennis club, and on outings. Fun things, things that most children do with their cousins (same age or older) or older siblings.
The things I would consider parenting – feeding, washing, dressing, putting to bed, bath time, bedtime stories, comforting when they fall over, nursing when sick, helping with homework, the daily grind of cooking boring things, the nannies and cooks do.
Because those things are work. And Kate hates work.
It was reported once, the nannies bring the children down from the nursery to say goodnight before they go to bed. It was an article praising them for not being traditional aristocrats keeping the children locked in the attic. The children were “allowed” to come into the main house to say goodnight. So it’s not Kate or William tucking them into bed. It was reported when George was a baby it was Maria on the other end of the babycom at night.
@cairidh oh that’s a good point, you could be right. In my area (maybe all of the US, I dont know lol) we call parents like that “disney dads,” usually in reference to a divorced couple but not always – the mom does the heavy lifting of parenting and the dad swoops in and takes them to Disney and gets all the credit for being an amazing parent while the mom is doing the day to day drudgery of parenting (I mean its not all drudgery but well….sometimes it is, lol.) And obviously you can have the reverse with a dad doing the heavy lifting and the Disney mom.
Kate might be a royal version of a Disney mom. she swoops in for the fun stuff and then peaces out the minute it gets hard. And she’s not the one getting them ready to go swimming, or cleaning up after cooking, etc.
During Kate’s 5 question promo she was answering questions and one of them was “what do you do when your kids misbehaves?” And she didn’t know how to answer. Nanny Maria knows the answer but not Kate. She will do the fun stuff and the nanny does the mothering.
We all saw during the Louis acting up incident last year that kate doesn’t handle the day to day raising of the kids. If she had then she would have been able to shut down the antics. Her inability to do that exposed her distant parenting for show.
Nanny Maria is raising those kids.
Nanny Maria might be the only named nanny but we all know full well a ton of other people are involved in the kids day to day lives.
Yes, exactly! I’m sure there is at least one other nanny and then various other household staff who cook, clean, run the kids around, etc.
@sarahcs, when Charlotte was a toddler they had three nannies that we knew of. First they got Nanny Maria then it was reported that they had another nanny for when Charlotte was born and then when she was a toddler they were seeking a Nanny who was good with childrens’ tantrums. Assuming that the third Nanny was not for William, that had them at least three nannies for the kids but they probably have had more than that at given times (they probably got an additional one for Louis).
@BECKS1
Thank you for introducing me to the term Disney dad.
That is -so- funny.
When George was a baby I’m sure it was reported there were two other night nurses in addition to Maria getting up at night.
Hmm they make sure one OR the other is home at the time of their arrival and OFTEN have dinners the 5 of them together… looks like they could be living separately. And not sleeping in the same room (not the same house that’s why)
Yeah I might “decorate cakes” with my kid if I had a staff to go and buy everything, set it all up and get it ready so I could wander in and “decorate” for a while, and then someone else would do all of the cleanup. While yet another person dealt with baths, teeth-brushing & bedtime. Plus homework, if they’re not on break.
Uh oh going in on the aristocracy doesn’t sound like a wise idea. They will throw her under a bullet train instead of a bus. Is Horsilla putting this out there so the aristos will do the dirty work?
Right? That was a dig about being brought up in an aristocratic setting. Shots fired. Turnip Toffs, your move next.
I think this is coming straight from the Middleton camp. Too much glowy stuff about CarolE, and then there’s this:
“Prince William and Princess Kate “consciously set out to achieve a sense of normality,” says a close source, and the couple was expressly permitted by Queen Elizabeth and then-Prince Charles to focus on family above royal duties. “Royal families over the generations haven’t had the chance to get those foundations right, but they have,” says a friend.”
Camilla wouldn’t praise Khate in that manner or say Charles gave them the ok to use their kids as excuses to not work.
Also, it’s interesting, because that paragraph basically admits that royal kids have screwed up upbringings. Where’s the rota’s performative outrage over admitting that.
I notice how they’re always ‘right’–W&K are doing their childrearing ‘right’, Kate never puts a foot wrong & is therefore always ‘right’. Must’ve been exhausting having Carole as a mom, she’s always got to be right & you have to do everything ‘right’. And ‘right’ is her way while ‘wrong’ is your way.
Oh, this is 1000% a Carole Middleton written piece. Nobody needs the level of detail on which shops George and his “commoner” grandmother frequent in Bucklebury.
Only the Keen s have low work numbers. I think the oh the children spin was an excuse put forward for not working much.
They were never given permission to work so little. They weren’t doing anything much before George was born. And Philip finally just retired in 2017 even though he had wanted William and Kate to step up a few years before that.
I just remember so clearly in 2017, when they were finally going to move into 1A full time and finally be “full time royals” and then Kate announced her pregnancy. I think my exact comment here was something like “man she is never going to work is she.”
@nic919,your so right, in fact the Queen pulled William up about it and told him that Kate needed to stop faffing around and work! Hence the title “Duchess Dolittle
George has already been pulled up about the way he was treating other pupils at school and telling them” you have to do what I say as I’m going to be king one day “, really takes after his father that one! And no sorry, this ideal home picture of them gathering around the kitchen together is rota bullsht because Billy boy doesn’t live there
What bullshit. She has turned her own children into show ponies, damning them as fodder for the tabloids.
How many articles have there been praising kate for dressing the children as Victorian relicts. That’s not normal at all. It’s not even what William and Harry had to endure.
People is so FOS nowadays. I saw something on YouTube that said they are owned by some right wing outfit too. Anyway, LOL that WanK are “allowed” to put family above royal duties. Whereas Harry and Meghan are supposed to leave their kids and fly an ocean away whenever “duty” calls.
Harry & Meghan aren’t required to do anything. They are “overseas.”
The Rota needs to reminded of that fact constantly. Harry and Meghan are not working Royals and therefore not required to come to anything.
Yikes. Is this a message to William? Are the marital troubles so bad he’s talking about taking the kids, or at least, the FFK? I can see a “you raise Charlotte and Louis, but I get the heir” kinda demand happening from Willyboy. Could this be Kate combating that? She could be setting up an “evil Will keeps George from mom and refuses to let him live a normal life by forcing him to be aristo” kinda narrative being set up.
Kate won’t get the heir. Stories may be forthcoming about George invited to tea with king Charles to get lessons on being a future monarch.
Yep. Willie will get George and I bet the other two kids will beg to live with their father as well. AC sure won’t be so cramped anymore.
The common touch slant shows the aristos still don’t respect Kate. I wouldn’t be surprised some of the toffs side eye the Wales kids because of their Middleton lineage.
Especially now the Middletons are disgraced, having been revealed as shameless scroungers and debtors. The toffs were never taken in by them.
Well, at least the Middletons don’t have to concentrate on social climbing now. I see those kids as having abnormally boring childhoods, it’s still all about keeping up appearances for Kate.
Yes, the perfect mother that have zero little stories to say about her kids.
Are they considering sending George to Eton? That’s not a normal childhood.
“Princess Kate regularly drives her kids to school and makes sure she OR Prince William is home most evenings for their return.“(emphasis mine)
So, both parents are not at home together in the evening? Sounds like split custody to me……
Yeah, considering that they don’t usually do engagements in the evening both of them should be at home.
Certainly sounds like William isn’t there in the morning.
Let’s not forget that it was around this time last year that we saw William arrive in a separate vehicle to greet George who then arrived with kate at Wimbledon.
And August was the commonwealth games in Birmingham when William and Charlotte arrived by helicopter and Kate arrived by train.
@Laura-Lee good catch on the “OR” in that sentence. That is very revealing, even if the writer didn’t intend it to be so. Why wouldn’t she AND William be home in the evenings for their return?
This article said the quiet part out loud. It may have been intentional.
That’s what jumped out at me, too. Why wouldn’t both of them being there be the normal thing?
The photo shopping on those green hat photos is really quite something.
Anyone else read the family of five gathering in the kitchen to cook family meals and decorate cupcakes as Kate, George, Charlotte, Louis and nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo?
The bar is set so low and she still needs the embiggening to cross it. And they still don’t get why this looks so bad…
I guess the Sussex kids got too much attention from their US July 4 Independence Day outing so the Middletons had to find something to center future queen mother Kate for PR?!? The fluff in that article is so thick….oh well you go Kate🤷♀️
I do hope those kids’ lives are not negatively impacted by that toxic institution. 🤞
George usually looks miserable. Poor fella. And that is a creepy People cover.
Right?!? He has Pippa Middleton’s face in that pic!
I don’t see that Kate is doing anything different than Diana, but because she comes from a middle-class background, they make it seem like she’s reinventing the wheel. Diana took the boys to amusement parks, McDonald’s, and to and from school. The biggest difference is that Diana also had a full schedule of engagements.
I agree with you. It’s all PR fluff for Kate. The propaganda machine is spinning to boost her for the public. The kids are being used to prop her up. I do hope that toxic institution does not negatively impact those children.
Eliabeth Kerri Mahon, Princess Di also took both of her sons to different places to make sure they understood how much privilege they had and how little others had. She took them to homeless shelters. I can’t remember whether they went with her to hospital visits. She really wanted them to have compassion. I doubt Wails would do anything like that.
This 100%. I am old enough to remember all the stories about what a normal upbringing William and Harry were having compared to how Charles was raised. This is nothing new except yes, Diana actually worked.
And made them wait in line which was unusual according to the press. Btw, Carole and Mike? Am I the only one who finally picked up on the Brady Bunch coincidence? Yes, I’m lame.
Poor George, I’m sitting here thinking back on the pics I remember about Harry , with his Toy gun, his binoculars, in a tank. Where are the pics of George playing soccer or cricket that he loves so much, what about the latest computer games the kids are playing . Or on a scooter riding around in one of the castles, his life is so stage managed, I see a lot of Kate in him (no personality) this is why the world will grow up to embrace Louis he has a huge personality, he is likely to be forgiven easily when he is falling out of clubs drunk or in a brawl
I guess I will weakly defend Kate here because really we should not have seen photos of Harry playing. The press used Harry and William’s childhood to sell papers and that was wrong. I hope we never see photos of Archie or Lili playing either (unless their parents publish them themselves.) With Will and Kate, I’m not sure if those photos are absent because they’re not around when their kids are playing or if it’s a deliberate decision. But either way it’s healthier for the kids not to have their privacy invaded in that manner.
Pretty sure letting the Daily Mail put out Kate’s Cuties where she profits from the copyright of her photos is a lot worse than whatever Diana and Charles did.
We’ll see those pictures as soon as Wills/Kate need a good PR moment.
We rarely see Kate interact with George in public, which I think is a tactical move on willies part. I think Willie is making sure George is a daddy’s boy and doesn’t want my middleton influence on him. In the event of a divorce, Kate will rebrand as ‘mother to the future king’ so George is technically Kate’s way of staying within the royal fold, should Willie eventually kick her to the curb. Willie can’t have the middletons whispering in George’s ear when he’s older.
“Prince George has a very different upbringing than previous heirs to the throne, thanks in large part to his mother’s childhood outside the royal fold”
On behalf of Diana I feel offended by this nonsense. Diana embraced modernity and went out of her way to treat her two sons the same. She understood William had a different role to play in the future but didn’t act as if that made him superior to his brother. She was so loving and warm to them and to others that she is still remembered and spoken of 30 yrs later.
What does “middle class” Kate do? Reinforce the harmful narrative that her 1st born is more special than her other kids, uses her kids as an excuse not to work, and uses her kids when she needs a photo op. This cover has George on it but the entire article is designed to boost Kate. She’s just like any other stage mom who lives vicariously through their kid and uses their stardom to get what she wants. Until she dies she will use her position as George’s mother to remain relevant to the public and the monarchy.
Diana was the star and didn’t need to use her kids to boost herself or to excuse her behavior. She just loved them to the best of her ability. True we see her efforts more with Harry than William and clearly Kate is not a fan of how her husband turned out. But blaming William’s dead mother and not his live father is to much. Kate’s PR which states George is the best heir to ever be raised because I’m an awesome mom is truly awful. Especially when she’s proven to be just another throwback.
Great point regarding Princess Diana. She was a trailblazer royal. However, the toxic institution messed with her best efforts to modernize royal parenting and service. 😇
MSTJ, Princess Di died so young. I think if she had lived to see them both into their early 20s, Harry would have had more confidence in himself and Fails? Well, Fails perhaps wouldn’t be quite the raging person he is. Maybe.
Carole and Kate should be ashamed if they are behind this article. It is in super bad taste considering Diana died at age 36. She was a great parent to Will and Harry but died tragically.
100% agree with you B. That was a slight on Diana, who was a wonderful mother living a nightmare with the royals!
One issue I am not buying. I wish she had a cover with all the children. He is not “more special.” She’s still mother of all of them. She comes from New Money and has lots of help she is not a “better mother” since she was born a commoner. That story makes no sense.
Prince George and his siblings? That says it all. The other two don’t rate a mention. Charlotte is still direct heir now then Louis. I find this really emphasizing how “special” George is being treated. Not his fault but this cover story is over the top. Diana would be seen with BOTH her children. And both William and Charles would be mentioned. Also the Future King is nine years old and probably won’t be King for maybe 50 years. This is unfortunate story.
I will be so glad when all of the “sh**t” hits the fan, I am so sick and tired of all of them. They’re nothing but a bunch of grifters. If Harry wins, it possibly will.
You’re so sick of all of them?
If you’re a UK citizen, I’m sorry for you, because the monarchy depends on the support of the majority, and I could be wrong but I think the majority still supports it. If you’re a foreigner why do you care? Just ignore them!
I’m also a foreigner, and I really enjoy, love, the pomp and pageantry.
in a few years (?) we’ll have a referendum, become a Republic or stay with the monarch. I’m sure if we become a Republic our lives won’t change. I’m also sure we will remain in the Commonwrealth. Some people here think the answer will be ‘No’ because ‘we can’t agree on anything!’ LOL
More important right now is a referendum later this year, ‘The Voice,’ ‘deciding to give the indigenous people a bigger role/voice.
That is nice e picture of mother and son!
I find it strange that these articles keep using the “school run” as an example of great parenting. Like, when I think of all the things you can do to show support to your children, driving them to school is at the very bottom of the list. When I was a kid I never cared how I got to school.
If you asked me, “how does your mom spend time with you?” I would’ve said something like: we have movie nights/go to the library/go to grandma’s house etc.
If these people are to be believed, I was neglected because I had to take the bus.
I think someone decided years ago that the “school run” was the be all and end all of good parenting and what “normal” people do so that’s why there’s such an emphasis on it.
honestly school drop off and pick up sounds like a nightmare to me LOL so I’m so glad my kids love the bus.
Crazy thing is Kate doesn’t even do the school run. The kids are usually dropped off in a number of SUVs with a ton of security in tow. It would be a security risk if she did drop them off on her own. She would be seen because she would drop off/pick up at the exact same time and place everyday. She only does it when it’s a staged photo op.
My guess is she isn’t as hands on as she pretends to be if they are having to lie about something that basic.
February Pisces, I don’t think she’s as hands on as they keep trying to make us believe either. They work really hard to make us believe this.
I had a Narcissistic Mother who didn’t look after me. She’d wake me up and take me straight to the car in my pyjamas, and drop me off at my Grandparents house. My Grandma would help me go to the loo, brush my teeth, wash. She’d dress me and feed me. Id spend the whole day with her looking after me (until I started school), soothing me when I was injured, nursing me if I was sick. I only went back to my NM house when it was time to go to sleep. For a few years we lived at my Grandmas house full time and she’d hold my hand and talk to me until I fell asleep. The result was my Grandma ended up being mother in all but name. Which was fine because she was saintly.
My NM tells people I never really accepted her as my mother because my Grandma was the one who took me to school. I always found it quite baffling that she thinks being a mother means taking the child to school…..
Carol Middleton is a textbook Narcissistic Mother, Kate is a textbook Golden Child of a NM. Carol apparently also thinks mothering = taking the child to school. The only explanation I can think of is that it’s because Narcissists only care about their public image. Taking children to school in the morning is the one parenting job that is done in public, in full view of other people. Nearly everything else is behind closed doors, where nobody can see it. No audience, no attention = not interested.
Cairidh, I’m so glad that you had your Grandma. I took the bus back in the day, so I don’t know why people place any emphasis on the school run. How many minutes in the day does that take to accomplish. It’s the rest of the time that counts.
They use the school run as a barometer because it blew their minds when Diana did it. Before Diana royal kids were taught at home. Diana refused and insisted that little William and Harry attend school and she did the school run. This history is why they act like the school run is a indicator of good parenting.
What’s really sad is that Diana was a trail blazer and set the standard for involved parenting of royal children. She was pictured dropping off her kids multiple times, was recorded attending and participating in schools events and Kate is rarely seen doing any of that. Kate claims to be some great middle class mom and superior to aristocratic moms but she hasn’t been seen doing as much as Diana did or being as affectionate with her children as Diana was. I call BS on all of this.
My mother did the school run and volunteered multiple days a week. She was a terrible mother. A total religious narcissist who did a lifetime of damage to my brother and I.
If you have the stomach for my story, I told it to a man on YouTube. Look for a video titled “The Narcissist Hates Scrutiny” on a channel titled Societal Narcissism. My story has been watched 7,300 times on this channel.
So the school run? Eat my shorts Kate and Willy. Taking your children to school is beyond the bare minimum needed to be a good parent. There is so much more to it.
Kate staring at George in the carriage thinking: “When he is king I shall have all of the buttons!”
I know that the cameras don’t show everything but I can’t think of one moment where they’ve been in public that I’ve seen George express any affection towards his mother. I’m not saying he doesn’t feel it but he acts so reserved and distant, almost as if he barely knows her. By contrast, we’ve seen numerous photos of Diana and both of her boys where you can tell she was a mom to them and not Princess of Wales. Reading in Spare how ridiculously prickly and pompous she is, I can’t help but wonder how she interacts with her children.
I agree. We haven’t seen many photos of George and Charlotte hugging Kate. They are more likely to do that with William.
Actually amusingly accurate…the British upper crust tradition of sending your children off to boarding school and only seeing them rarely is just so obsolete (frankly, cruel), like their stupid class system. Kate probably IS a much more hands on mum simply because she’s middle class, which of course is absolutely ludicrous to Americans and anyone anywhere else without such a rigid, archaic class system.
I usually try to leave the kids out of it, but nothing about their resting expressions suggests they are enjoying a magical childhood.
Allowing George to be singled out for special privileges/admiration is not good parenting. Screaming and throwing things at your spouse — and letting your spouse scream and throw things at you — is not good parenting. Gaslighting your brother-in-law, his wife, and their kids, is not good parenting. Being a doormat to your husband because he has the money and rank is not good parenting. Allowing lies to be told about family members which subjects them to racial attacks is not good parenting. I don’t care how many pictures of Kate posing with her kids they print in the tabloids, I do not think she is a good parent. And William is worse.
I don’t believe that George will be King. If Charles doesn’t blow it all to hell, William will, either way, that kid will never be King, he might have that title while working a regular job or being another rich dope.
Has child’s advocate kate come out in support of “the sound of freedom” movie about child sex trafficking? MSM is curiously trashing this movie and its being sabotaged. Anyone who cares about the well-being of children would encourage people to see it since MSM is trashing it? Or is she complicit with it all?
Well I doubt it is being “sabotaged”
It looks more like a P.R. stunt to drive ticket sales.
I was around when the passion of Christ came out, it too was said to be sabotaged and christians were being persecuted for their beliefs.
Well I belonged to a church where it was given free tickets, and people were told to do the same b.s stunts like leaving the movie and being told to say they were being kept from seeing it. This was happening all over.
And what’s funny is that the same guy is staring in this one too. He also goes to conventions and talks about how kids are being taken for their blood and adrenochrome 🙃
He’s been taped in multiple interviews pushing that tripe check out you tube or his own TikTok.
The dude who had the movie made us the one who started the Wayfair rumor. A qanon talking point fyi
So you coming on with the script I’ve been seeing is super suspicious.
It like it’s being posted everywhere so it comes up in google searches 🤔
So Troll.
Maybe if Charles hadn’t treated the mother of his sons like a disposable broodmare — if he hadn’t cheated on her with his side piece — they would have had a happier childhood.
That aside, this article is 100% trying to paint Kate as the primary parent.
Sorry but I couldn’t get past the line “Kate is so common” At least they got that right!
@kaiser re your last sentence, exactly. They have such low standards on who constitutes as a great mom. I wished I had a nanny and staff to help – and best of all Courtesy of the British taxpayers 🙄.
If anyone truly believes she is great at anything, I will eat my hat. Metaphorically.
Seriously, the heaps of bullshit articles about how great Cannot and Willnot are, and how they are the future of the monarchy, says it all. The Monkees were writing Daydream Believer about these two.
Good grief! Can’t they stop dressing this poor kid like a mini Donald Trump???
In case they have not noticed, “normal” kids do not run around in suits and ties!!
Nothing says “happy childhood” like the expression on that poor kid’s face, on your cover picture, People!
Normal life… on front cover of a leading magazine.. nothing normal here.
I think I may find Kate Middleton more appealing if she owned the fact that she comes from a working class family. But no, she’s too busy playing at being an aristo and then a royal. Plus I suspect that working class Kate would probably still be a mean girl?
George is still a child and looks young for his age. He wears suits when hes out at events. A pity that he has to be on this cover with stories of keen raising him as a future king. Not a normal childhood.
What nonsense. Kate is quite grand in Spare. I believe the portrayal.
Gossip from the Waity days revealed how Kate let being William’s girlfriend go to her head.
We will see how good a parent Kate and Willy are in thirty years when all of the children are fully grown. We will be able to judge their character, life and social skills, their mental stability (or lack of), their beliefs, and the list goes on.
How can she be called a great mother. She has multiple servants, multiple nannies, multiple assistants, etc, etc, nothing normal about this. The BFR should be very careful having those three children in the hands of grifters and scammers, what are they going to teach them. Stalking would be one of the subjects, how to lie and collect secrets to destroy all competition would be another, how to avoid working, how to marry wealthy more subjects on their curriculum, I feel very sorry for those children. They never seem happy around K, but smiling and relaxed with William, he seems to comfort them in public and make it less stressful. The ice maiden is too busy scannng for her latest photo opportunity to really care. Plus she is still learning, whatever !!