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05-05-2025
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Kate Middleton and Prince William Have a Strict Rule for Staff When Interacting with Their Children
Prince William and Kate Middleton have minimal staff working at their home at Adelaide Cottage, a four-bedroom residence the Wales family of five moved into back in 2022. There is no live-in staff, but a nanny, gardener, and housekeeper are on the grounds frequently. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strict rule that they require staff to abide by so as to protect their kids Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince William and Kate Middleton keep the staff as light as possible around their four-bedroom home, Adelaide Cottage, in Windsor. But the staff they do have are required to follow 'one strict rule in order to protect their three children,' according to The Mirror. Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis have no staff living with them at home, but they do have a nanny, Maria Teresa Turrion Borrllo, around them frequently, as well as a housekeeper and a gardener, the outlet reported. There is also a team based at their parents' office at Kensington Palace, where the Wales family of five used to live before moving out to Windsor in 2022. In a recent job posting for the housekeeping role, the position was described as an 'exciting opportunity' to work for the Prince and Princess of Wales and 'join a supportive and positive team.' But there is a strict zero tolerance policy for gossiping, with William and Kate specifying that applicants had to be skilled at 'maintaining confidentiality and exercising discretion' (which, of course, makes sense). According to Valentine Low, author of Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown, an employee said that casual wear is preferred around the Wales family and that formal attire is actually frowned upon (via The Sun). 'The kids run around the office, and he [William] does not want it to be stuffy,' a source told Low. 'If we have important meetings or are going to Buckingham Palace, then of course we [dress up].' In an effort to keep George, Charlotte, and Louis' childhoods as normal as possible at home, Adelaide Cottage has no royal butler, and royal biographer Robert Hardman wrote in his book Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story that 'The couple did not seek to boost the staff members at Adelaide Cottage, not least because there would be little room to do so. Reports that the prince was hiring a valet were knocked back.' 'The Kensington Palace team does include a 'yeoman,' a multitasking attendant who looks after everything from luggage to uniforms, but there is no 'gentleman's gentleman' on the staff,' Hardman continued. 'And certainly no butler. It's very much them at home with the kids.' A source previously said of the Prince and Princess of Wales' family life that 'I think it would surprise people to see how ordinary things are at home. The children help with laying the table, clearing their plates when they've finished eating, and tidying up. There's no preferential treatment.' Read the original article on InStyle
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16-04-2025
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This Is What a Prince William Monarchy and Coronation Could Look Like
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Though it's impossible to know when Prince William—and, as his queen consort, Princess Kate—will take the throne, Harper's Bazaar shared exclusively that it is anticipated that day will come 'earlier than expected' and 'sooner rather than later.' Whenever the time comes, a monarchy under King William and Queen Catherine 'will look much less formal, less stiff than it has been under [King] Charles,' royal author Tom Quinn tells Bazaar. 'What we can expect to see when William and Kate take the throne is a much more emotionally engaged couple. And it's partly because I think they want to be a king and queen who are seen to engage much more with ordinary people in a very relaxed way.' With King Charles III, Quinn adds, 'the emphasis has been on ceremony, on dignity, all that kind of old-fashioned stuff. And William and Kate, I think, won't be doing that. They'll be doing the opposite.' When the monarchy changes hands from Charles to William, the central constitutional role of the monarchy won't change, royal biographer Robert Hardman says, 'Just as it hasn't changed with King Charles.' As to William's coronation someday, Hardman adds that it 'will be a very different affair' than Charles's, which took place on May 6, 2023, about eight months into his reign. 'It'll be less ceremony. It'll be shorter. I think he'll try to—I wouldn't say modernize, but maybe some of the elements will feel more contemporary.' Hardman predicts William's future reign will be 'very practical' and will represent 'a natural modernization.' But, the author of the 2024 biography Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story adds, 'these things you kind of learn as you go along. One thing we have learned from King Charles is that if you predict that someone is going to be the same as king as they were when they were younger, forget it. King Charles is a very different creature to Prince Charles.' William is, naturally, more casual than his father, says Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of 2024's My Mother and I, about Charles's relationship with his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II. Seward agrees William's future coronation will be smaller than Charles's, much like Charles's was significantly smaller than his mother's before him. However, Seward cautions, 'There is a limit to how small you can make these ceremonies. If you make them too small, then they're pointless.' William will be focused on making the monarchy appealing for the next generation, Hardman says, not the least of which are the three members of the next generation under his roof: Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6. As the Wales family of five currently enjoy the kids' Easter break, 'I think the feeling is to let them be children—young children, if you like—as long as they can be,' Seward says. Of George—who too, like his father William, is the heir to the throne—William and Kate 'don't want to have this weight on his shoulders—on his very young shoulders—that he might be King one day,' Seward says. 'I mean, it's a long time in the future.' Spending time raising good kids is actually, in a way, future-proofing the monarchy, says royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life. 'William and Catherine are really aware of the need to be with their children, to be as a family,' she tells Bazaar. 'And actually, it's part of their responsibilities as the Prince and Princess of Wales—George is going to be part of his [William's] legacy, and they want to make sure they're bringing him up in a way that gives him a normal childhood, but also helps to prepare him for what he will face.' While William's accession to the throne is certainly in the much closer future than George's, the Prince and Princess of Wales are intentionally setting up their lives by putting their children first. 'They know that one of the good reasons for spending more time with the children and prioritizing them is that they won't be able to do that when the time comes for William to be king, simply because in order to justify the existence of the royal family, the heaviest burden always rests on the king or the queen,' says Quinn, who wrote a definitive book on raising royal kids, 2023's Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up in the Royal Family. 'William knows that, and William is fully committed to that. So they're spending more time now while the heavy burden isn't with them.' You Might Also Like 4 Investment-Worthy Skincare Finds From Sephora The 17 Best Retinol Creams Worth Adding to Your Skin Care Routine
