I’m genuinely surprised that People Magazine didn’t put the Cambridges on their cover last week or this week. This week’s People Mag cover is all about The Bachelor, which just shows you… People’s editors believe, with good reason, that American readers are more interested in Bachelor stuff than royal stuff. Gone are the days when a royal woman (Diana) could get a People cover at the drop of a hat. I do believe that Poor Jason the Yank, the Cambridges’ Communications Director, does leak information to American outlets in an attempt to get favorable pro-royal treatment somewhere, especially after the British press has been going HAM on the royals for weeks now. Thus, this Us Weekly cover. In which we hear all about how the Cambridges are just like us!
Prince William and Kate Middleton don’t want their kids receiving the royal treatment. Though Prince George, 2, and Princess Charlotte, 10 months, live in a 10-bedroom Georgian estate in Norfolk, England — and have a second 20-room spread at Kensington Palace in London — the tots “are living as normal lives as possible,” a Middleton family friend says in the new issue of Us Weekly.
To that end, the 33-year-old future king and his bride, 34, try to take turns making the roughly 10-mile trip to George’s pre-school for drop-off duty, says a source. And the tyke, who has half days at East Walton’s Westacre Montessori School three days a week, relishes the trip.
“He’s taken to it like a duck to water,” says a source close to the couple. “Every morning he’ll ask if he’s going to school, and he will get disappointed when the answer is, ‘Not today.’”
His little sis is making moves as well. The family friend says the tiny royal has started crawling: “She’s quite mobile.”
And she’s often chasing after her mom. “She loves to shadow her mother around the house,” says the source close to the couple. “If Kate is in the study, Charlotte wants to be in the study. If Kate’s cooking, Charlotte wants to be right next to her, watching her at work. She just prefers to be around her mum and can put on a bit of a performance if you try and make it any other way.”
With two big personalities at home, the duke and duchess are holding off on adding another heir to the mix. “Before Charlotte was born, they wanted to have another straightaway,” says a Kate pal. “But now that the reality of two very active kids has set in, they’re quite happy to wait a little while longer!”
Just like us! In a 10-bedroom country estate, far away from their 20-room mansion-within-a-palace! While I believe that Kate does drop-offs and pick-ups regularly (not every day, but regularly), I’m kind of not believing it about William. Granted, it’s not like he’s proudly throne idle. It’s not like he works 20 hours a week… if that. William definitely has the TIME to be a normal, working-part-time dad. I just question whether he’s actually all that engaged in the day-to-day activities of parenthood, which is weird because that’s his most common deflection for why he doesn’t work more: he has young children, etc. Also… Charlotte being super-attached to Kate is sort of cute. I get the feeling that Charlotte is their “easy child,” especially after George ruled their home with his iron baby fist.
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Oh. I thought she was pregnant again. Never mind.
Since the press is going HAM, I’m wondering if they are going to dig up some good dirt on William since he always got quite the pass in the past.
Well, they’re just so busy right now, what with her not voting on the Supreme Court nominee preventing her from giving out shamrocks and him so busy pouting and all. They just don’t have the time to do that sex thing that results in babies.
Plus, don’t you both have to be in the same room, in the same house? If conceiving the natural way, I mean. 😆
Well, you could be in separate rooms if you do it in a doorway
I officially throw in the towel. I admit, I hoped that these two would’ve “heard” the roar of the public, and she would’ve shown up to pass out the shamrocks today. Sigh… 🎶 What kind of fooooool am I? 🎶
What absolutely, voluntarily tone deaf nitwits! It truly would’ve taken, what…3 hrs. out of her day? 4 tops (esp. with the helicopter)??
Just unbelievable. I still think that Kate does what petulant, Workshy Willie wants her to do, and no more (because God forbid she grow a backbone after a lifetime of following orders from Machiavelli Ma and say, “No!” to Will, I will *not* stay home! I am going to see that beautiful, sweet dog, who, btw, kisses better than you!” Sigh, yeah yeah, I know…projecting lol
Anyway…baaaaaaaaad move kids….bad move.
The US weekly article also included a source supposedly close to William saying that between his helicoptering, royal duties, and family life, he “says he hardly has a moment to himself.” haha
I kind of thought they would stop at two. What do you guys think?
I’m betting they have AT LEAST one more. Probably two more. It will come in handy for their work-shy’ness excuses to have more kids. Sure that’s cynical but I bet there is a grain of truth to it.
Me too, actually.
Kate has “said” (in interviews) she “wants 3 by the time she’s 35”. We’ll definitely hear a pregnancy announcement by late summer.
Kate has never given an interview since becoming a royal. That “3 by 35” line was from a “source” in some article. Kate never actually said that.
The only activity William is engaged in is William-hood. It’s part of the job, Mark.
LOL………………..love it.
Why am I not buying this drivel??? Kate in ‘the study’? Doing what exactly? It’s not as if she’s reading any briefs for upcoming performances. Probably shopping on the internet. And Keen Kate in the kitchen?? I find that hard to believe. I also suspect the baby is more attached to her nanny than her mother. And since when does Kate have a “pal”??? I’d like to know who that might be, because her only pal seems to be her mother.
I could see George being excited about his preschool, and Keen Kate dropping him off from time to time. Workshy Will, though – I seriously doubt that.
This story is a weak piece of fluff.
I chuckled at the cooking in the kitchen part. Overseeing how many leaves of lettuce she will eat that day, perhaps.
Thinly disguised fluff to suggest both are hands-on, ‘normal’ parents.
Yeah and even in this piece of fluff there’s no real excuse for their lack of public engagements and charity work. Like it’s possible to have kids, raise them with love and take some time off every week to help others when you’re as wealthy as the Cambridges.
I’m a left wing Australian so reading about this couple leads to me channeling my republican rage. Even though I don’t think there should be a a Queen at least she has an active professional life unlike these two.
” Charlotte wants to be right next to her, watching her at work. ”
Work? What would that entail? Working out? Putting on lipstick? I mean, what does she do all day?
Yoga, heavy application of eyebrow pencil and eyeliner….that’s all I’ve got.
She’s a big gym bunny as well as spending a lot of time shopping, hair dressers and remodeling her kitchen(s).
Takes a long time to add those hair tracks for weaves
Petri Dish
I thought “bride” was for the first year. Can one be a “bride” after 5 years? Oh wait, this is the couple who sh**s all over tradition. Of course she can be a “bride.”
(no, I have not forgotten the Domhnall snub and I probably never will.)
oh and also, it’s a good thing those children are so cute (as children usually are) because they will most likely grow up to be as boring and clueless as their sperm and womb donors.
How can two people with such dead, boring personalities produce a kid like george is beyond me!
There is alot of personality in the ancestors. Carole and uncle gary are huge personalities, the spencers are big personalities, too many big personalities in the windsor line to name. William himself is a huge personality though in his case it seems to manifest in petulance and temper tantrums, but he is very animated around the things, people and activities he likes – see his expressions around zara or jecca and polo. Charles is also very animated. If you watch videos of him as a child, he was very bright and inquisitive child. Ditto anne and andrew. The queen and her father seem to have been the anomalies in terms of having quiet personalities,but they made up for it by marrying boisterous loud people.
Well whatever will she blame her canceled engagements on?
Start as it all means to go on I think Charlotte will have a similar relationship to Carole and Kate – joined at the hip, shopping together. As for Wills I think he is happy with just Two, whilst Kate would have at least four. i got the impression Charlotte was holding her own in the tiny tots corner putting George in the shade or something on those lines.
I’m waiting for an announcement that Will needs a “man cave” and a hunting lodge will be purchased, built or refurbished so he can have much needed time away.
**For all the commenters from the UK, how intense is the negative pulicity? Are the public really upset about Work Shy Wills?