Here are even more photos of the Wales family last Friday, where Prince William and Kate brought all three kids out to the Royal International Air Tattoo. It’s basically just an air show, where kids can look at planes and there’s some kind of plane demonstration. William loves planes and I guess his kids do too? The air show benefits the Royal Air Force Charitable Trust, so this is what Will and Kate did instead of donating to a charity! They just went to an air show. It’s all very middle-class, which is what William likes, remember. In case you needed this point driven home yet again, here’s one last excerpt from People Magazine’s current cover story, in which “sources” erased Diana from the royal-parenting narrative, made Kate sound like a single mother, suggested that Kate is a great mom because she’s not an aristocrat and lied about QEII giving them “express permission” to be lazy bums.
When Prince William married his college sweetheart Kate Middleton, she brought her down-to-earth tone as she stepped into royal life — and now as parents of three, the Princess of Wales’ non-royal background has a big impact on how the couple is raising Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
“Those children look pretty happy with life,” a palace insider tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “A lot of it is the stabilizing normality Kate brings — and that’s how she grew up. William absolutely loves it.”
Despite their royal roles — especially George, who is second in the line of succession to the throne behind his father and will someday become king — Kate ensures that her kids’ childhoods are as normal as possible.
“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.”
Yes, compared to the Victorian aristocrat model, Kate really is a modern parent! See how easy it was to make Kate sound like a great mom? Just compare her to the characters on Downton Abbey! As for William “absolutely loving” Kate’s completely normal middle-class stability… yeah, sure, that’s the talking point. In all honesty, William has never insulted Kate’s parenting. His people actually make a point of saying that Kate raises the children while William is out saving the world, one jazz-hand photo-op at a time. William no longer “loves” that about Kate or the Middletons though.
Meanwhile, there’s always so much attention on Prince Louis during these outings. Everyone in the British and American media seems committed to boxing him in as the family clown, when really, Louis seems like he’s genuinely upset by certain things. Just like on the palace balcony, Louis has issues with really loud noises. I know it’s probably against some kind of imaginary protocol, but they really need to let this kid wear noise-canceling headphones when they know he’ll be around loud noises. It would probably occur to Will and Kate to do just that if only they actually paid attention to their children instead of using them as PR props, but what do I know!
William and Kate got the school holidays off to a flying start by taking their children on a family day out to the world's largest military air show – but Prince Louis didn't seem impressed.
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Prince Louis of Wales sits inside a vehicle on a C17 plane with Catherine, Princess of Wales during a visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strong relationship with the RAF, with the Prince having served with the Search and Rescue Force for over three years, based at RAF Valley in Anglesey. The Prince is Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Coningsby and The Princess is Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.,Image: 789121267, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Prince Louis of Wales waves as he sits inside a vehicle on a C17 plane during a visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strong relationship with the RAF, with the Prince having served with the Search and Rescue Force for over three years, based at RAF Valley in Anglesey. The Prince is Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Coningsby and The Princess is Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.,Image: 789121434, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Catherine, Princess of Wales smiles as she arrives at the Techno Zone, which aims to inspire young people into exploring science, technology, engineering and maths, during her visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Road to RIAT competition is a year-long programme involving 300 schools from across the UK who were challenged to design a sustainable aircraft of the future for the RAF.,Image: 789121508, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Prince Louis of Wales sits inside a vehicle on a C17 plane during a visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford with Catherine, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales (L) on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strong relationship with the RAF, with the Prince having served with the Search and Rescue Force for over three years, based at RAF Valley in Anglesey. The Prince is Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Coningsby and The Princess is Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.,Image: 789121770, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Prince Louis of Wales sits inside a vehicle on a C17 plane with Catherine, Princess of Wales during a visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strong relationship with the RAF, with the Prince having served with the Search and Rescue Force for over three years, based at RAF Valley in Anglesey. The Prince is Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Coningsby and The Princess is Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.,Image: 789121789, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- FAIRFORD, ENGLAND – JULY 14: Prince William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales with Prince George of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Louis of Wales (C) as they walk down the ramp of a C17 plane during their visit to the Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford on July 14, 2023 in Fairford, England. The Prince and Princess of Wales have a strong relationship with the RAF, with the Prince having served with the Search and Rescue Force for over three years, based at RAF Valley in Anglesey. The Prince is Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Coningsby and The Princess is Honorary Air Commodore of the Air Cadets.,Image: 789121798, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Chris Jackson / Avalon
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- The Princess of Wales with Princess Charlotte during a visit to the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales with Princess Charlotte Where: Fairford, United Kingdom When: 14 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis during a visit to the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Featuring: Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis Where: Fairford, United Kingdom When: 14 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales with Prince George (hidden) and Princess Charlotte during a visit to the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Featuring: Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales with Prince George and Princess Charlotte Where: Fairford, United Kingdom When: 14 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I hope they don’t mess the kids up too much. I know we all have issues because of our parents/upbringing but these kids being used by their parents is next a whole other beast.
They always look so unhappy when Kate is around…not that I think Will is that much better.
It’s when the cameras are around. Kate tends to pose for the cameras more than William so maybe that part is strange for the kids. Not to say William doesn’t but he doesn’t seem to as much when the kids are around. everything is prob different when the photographers aren’t there.
Kate is constantly sticking herself in her children’s faces just so she can be in the same frame as them. She’s done it before many times, leaning in and then making up a reason to do so (such as pointing to some object), but the kids are never looking where she’s pointing. It might be that the kids are sick and tired of it, and that’s why they look so disengaged when she’s around.
I don’t believe this family is happy. There’s a lot of BS coming from the ultra- biased gutter media in favour of the RF.
They are practically screaming “Nothing to see here! Everything is NORMAL! GREAT in fact! We’re the most perfect family in the entire realm. We haven’t completely fallen apart behind the scenes! Who told you that!? How DARE they! You’re violating my human rights and I’m going to SUE!! But I’ll happily take a pay off and call it a day.”
It’s almost like they are waiting for the ink to dry on the separation announcement.
I doubt it. They’ve been using this talking point for 10+ years now. How much william just loves the middletons normality.
Yes, indeed. Everything about William screams “I love stabilizing normality!”
None of the kids seems particularly happy to be in the spotlight. Charlotte seems to tolerate it the best. George looks petrified half the time and Louis is downright annoyed to be there. So that’s…normal, I guess? Way to parent, you two!
When she can see the photographers and the press Charlotte doesn’t seem to tolerate it at all. She looks downright frightened. George is a but more on the background and probably knows how to hide it better, but he doesn’t seem thrilled either.
I always get the impression that Charlotte is trying to put on a brave face. When we see her talking to Louis and looking every bit the mature big sister, it’s undoubtedly cute, but I wonder if maybe that’s more for herself than for Louis, like a distraction to keep herself from thinking too much about the situation. And the fact that their dynamic is seen as adorable by the public kinda makes me worry that her parents — Kate in particular — have picked up on that crowd-pleaser and basically made that Charlotte’s “role” and encourage her to play it up.
College Stalker, not college sweetheart.
I remember George wearing a pair of those headphones to a similar event years ago, so maybe they just didn’t expect it to be that loud, or maybe Louis is more sensitive to noise? Or maybe they just forgot them. (I cannot believe I’m even mildly defending W&K!)
Also, these asinine articles never seem to acknowledge that the world has changed since Charles was a baby, and of course things are going to be different now. The way children are treated has changed enormously over the years; people used to have kids so they could help work the farms, fgs (just one example). This isn’t all just Kate Middleton singlehandedly changing and saving the world here.
Moreover it doesn’t seem like the children are growing up that differently from william himself.
Oh Carole still trying to make Can’t appealing to Peg. That ship has sailed. These family outings are just more PR to say we are a family and we are happy. Just look at the pictures they tell the story. Nobody looks pleased to be there.
Carol(E) working overtime to push Keen the Valuable, knowing Kate’s being shown the door.
I feel like CarolE wants to up the shock value of any split announcement by plying the peasants with happy family articles so the average joe feels like he didn’t see this coming. CarolE somehow wants to use public uproar as a bargaining tool for Kate and the royal grandparents to get cash and homes and access to the royal spaces at Ascot and Wimbledon going forward no matter what.
Exactly Susan,the mask has really slipped (just like her fillers), so much so that one paper!, sorry can’t remember which) had a picture of waity, holding Louis hand with the headline (this is how you do a royal wave Louis) oh how I laughed. Yes Louis should be allowed to wear ear defenders as its so obvious he can’t stand loud noises (goodness knows what he does when keen laughs and bullyam incandeses), and stabilising??? Nah she hasn’t been stabilising since they took them off her bike
I know some people are just more sensitive to noise (my b/f came out of Indiana Jones having found it ‘just too loud’ and my friend and I were really surprised), but could this link to noise at home in Louis’ case? Having grow up with his parents shouting and screaming at each other he now reacts more strongly to loud noises?
“Just compare her to the characters on Downton Abbey.” This was my coffee spit out moment of the morning.
Good catch on Louis and his inability to tolerate loud noise. Very common in young children. I couldn’t tolerate fire works till 10 or so. I feel his pain.
my toddler granddaughter screamed at loud noises also. Her pediatrician said it was sound sensitivity and perfectly normal for some children. Advised to use noise cancelling headphones very sparingly as it also blocks out normal noises that she needs to hear for normal development.
My middle girl was the same. We had her evaluated and she has full blown misophonia, which contributes to ADHD because she is SO sensitive to sound. We cannot do family dinners very often because listening to people chew is upsetting for her. Sometimes it’s a sensitivity, and sometimes it’s a full blown disorder.
It is super common and often treated with such a lack of compassion. “Oh it’s not that loud! You’ll get used to it”
Sensory mom here to two sensory children.
We have not gotten used to it. It is that loud to us. But we do have tricks to deal with it now. And our tolerance for some noises has increased to like – ok someone is going to use the hand dryers in the bathroom. Cover your ears if you need to and let’s hurry the heck up.
I had noise sensitivity as a child and at 70 I still have it. If I hear a loud car or motorcycle it feels like my ears are exploding. Sirens drive me nuts, and unfortunately we live in a city where these types of noises are constant. I have to wear earplugs every night otherwise the noise wakes me up. On the other hand, Mr. Jaded can sleep through WWIII. Get the poor kid some noise cancelling earphones for god’s sake.
A royal insider says these kids look pretty happy with life. Lordy, well, okay then. Wish they wouldn’t do these people pr articles about the kids. Talk about Kate bring a mom whatever. But leave the kid’s emotions, good or bad, out of it.
Poor Louis. The press are going to destroy him. As Kaiser said, William and Kate should do more to protect him from this kind of scrutiny. The framing of the narrative that Kate being from a different background means she knows the importance of family rubs me the wrong way. I get what they’re trying to say when compared with William’s upbringing but does it also mean that if she was from a working class background with divorced parents she wouldn’t know the importance of family?
I agree these articles aren’t it. Like lets say George marries a daughter of an aristo one day, then what? things like these will be brought back up.
It will also be VERY interesting to see if Kate will be okay with her future daughter-in-law’s family being as involved with Prince George’s kids as the Middletons are with their grandson. I bet Kate won’t stand for it and will try and limit their influence and not be happy if Prince George’s wife is as close to her mother and family as Kate is with hers.
“These kids look pretty happy with life” is not British speak ( lee Thompson is at it again)
Articles like these keep pointing to the fact that all is not well in house wales, can’t wait to read the tell all book in 20 years
As in she boring, I’m boring, but our kids are cute.
I wish W & K would both stop having their teams try to sell them so hard.
Nobody really cares.
This whole narrative is nauseating at this point. I really wish they would stop pretending like Kate had this super normal, middle class upbringing with a close-knit family. It is NOT normal to groom your daughters to fetch rich husbands, it is NOT normal teach them to viciously attack any and all female “competition”, and there’s a HUGE difference between “close-knit” and “insular”. These are not values to be praised, they’re deeply dysfunctional.
Again with ‘normal’ being the highest praise one can lavish on Kate. Ironic given, actually, Waity has worked VERY hard to socially climb this high.
I don’t understand what she does that is so “normal.” She has multiple nannies, a house full of staff, her kids are driven to school by RPOs, they go on lavish vacations, they use helicopters like Ubers, etc. They keep pushing this idea of “normal Kate” but I am just confused as to what is so normal about how the kids are being brought up especially compared to how Diana raised her boys. Maybe the fact that they’re not in boarding school yet? That’s it?
You nailed it, Becks1.
Kate’s upbringing wasn’t normal either. How many “normal” families let their daughters do absolutely nothing post university for almost a decade in the hopes that a famous rich man will propose? Usually they are expected to get a job at some point.
And uncle Gary with his Maison de bang bang is also not normal.
I was going to say the same @Nic919.
Exactly. Kate may not have royal origins but she was brought up in a wealthy family. She and her siblings also went to expensive boarding schools which is not “normal” by most peoples standards.
Her family was NOT wealthy. Her Mom was a flight attendant and her Dad was a businessman. The only wealthy person in her family was her drug dealer Uncle. Who paid for her boarding school.
Translation: “William loves that he can control Kate. He can do anything he wants, and she will never leave him. She will remain stable, i.e., the silent, well-behaved royal wife and mother.”
This, btw, is why I don’t think he’ll ever divorce her. Where else will he find a woman he can walk all over like this?
Mf, you assume that she is “stable, i.e., the silent, well-behaved royal wife and mother.” I don’t think she’s silent at all. I have a feeling the two of them can hold their own in any and all arguments they have. She’s not well-behaved. This is the person who delights in showing her body. Earlier in their marriage she thought nothing of flashing people. Now, she wears dresses without slips so that you can see her legs all the way up.
I still have a hard time seeing her spending a lot of time with the kids. She has at least one Nanny that we know of, and they’re all in school. When on vacation, are we really thinking that she spends the vast majority of her time with the kids? I’m just not seeing it. If she did, she would be natural when interacting with children during her engagements. She’s doesn’t act natural; she’s still over the top.
It’s been stated in the media that the WanKs have huge rows and throw stuff at each other. Such a pleasant environment in which to raise children. She plays the obedient wifey in public with her attempted bum pats and cheek kisses but it’s all Willnot can do to barely tolerate her. They are most likely separated unofficially and are treading water until he decides he’s had enough, or meets a woman he truly loves.
Please can someone enlighten me were Wills and Harry ever paraded as much when they were under 10? As in despite the clear disintegration of the marriage, I don’t recall Charles and Diana using their sons as buffers during public events? IDK but I am uneasy that these children are being over exposed to create a happy families narrative given Williams nose holding antics around his wife.
There were annual Christmas cards up until the separation
They had happy families cards when the marriage was deteriorating. Diana had photos with the boys and their friends at amusement parks. There were appearances with will and harry after the divorce including wills confirmation. I think the wales children of today make more appearances.
I think it was in H&M’s netflix documentary you saw Diana walking over to speak to a photographer about leaving them alone on a ski trip as they had done a photo op as ‘payment’ for being able to enjoy the rest of their holiday in peace. She really tried to protect them.
This push to be.the perfect royal family is too much and the Wales kids will get the side effects. George is expected to be perfect as the king in waiting; Louis is the wild child; and Charlotte is expected to be the glue to keep them together – if Kate doesn’t perceive her as a rival.
Except there is no such thing as “a perfect.family”. Person-hood is more that prototypes for lazy reportage…
” ‘She wasn’t brought up in that aristocratic setting where you see the children for a short time each day.’ ”
This makes me think they’re protesting too much and she behaves exactly in this manner regarding the children.
If I hear about how much William loves Kate’s middle-class roots or how she is such a better parent because of how she was raised one more time, I’m going to scream!! We get it, Kate!!
Interesting how her family is never brough tup anymore, though. It used to be how much William LOVED Kate and her fam, but the family part has now been dropped from the narrative ever since they pushed the “We’re William’s new and improved family” story at the time of Diana’s statue.
Since William has complimented Kate on her parenting skills, Why does she need the countless reassurance from her daily PR team, in this particular case extended to People Magazine?
Just trying to put this recycled item in perspective….
I’m sorry but there’s nothing normal nor stable about Kate.
And it’s painful now to see how odd she has become, something is clearly very wrong with her. The photo snapshots may work for some newspaper readers, but tv crews and those actually present must be aghast at her.
As someone else on here a few weeks ago observed – those children look far too pensive whenever we see them. Happy they are not.
There was nothing ‘normal’ about Kate’s upbringing. She was coddled, wrapped in cotton wool, and groomed to be a courtesan. I think that the nanny and momma Midds are raising those kids and they know they’re special.
Neither of these failures-to-launch have a clue about what ‘normal’ is. What they want is secrecy and no accountability while hoovering up the perks, like daily helicopter rides. If they want a normal family, then ditch the throne and the perks and go live on a farm.
“Stabilizing normality” to a dysfunctional, loveless marriage. Okay. And if that’s the best compliment my husband can give me, he’d be out on his ass.
This is the worst headline for BS I’ve seen in a while. Wow. Such total horsesh*t it’s not even funny. The man hates that he’s not single. He never wanted to get married, just like his father didn’t.
Are those dark circles under Louis’ eyes? All the children look very serious here, but I understand that they were shown the plane that carried their late great-grandmother the Queen back to England. Charlotte strikes me as the most comfortable in the spotlight. She seems to have been born with a sense of what to do in public and how to behave. I do get the impression that she is the “parent” in public sometimes: reminding George of what he needs to do and checking Louis. Of all the children, she strikes me as the “old soul.” I imagine that Charlotte and George will be very close due to the fact of their appearances together from a young age to bolster the Windsor image.
The dark circles are likely hayfever. Poor Louis. My young son suffers from it too and he frequently looks like this when the pollen count is off the chart which it was at the time of this event.
It’s a Middleton trait because you see Kate with dark circles under her eyes in her childhood photos.
Kate and family are not normal her and her mother chased after stalked William for a whole decade. It was a family affair everyone play their part in helping Kate get that ring from her mother playing to William egos to Kate uncle provided them yachts trips . Kate make sure she is available at all times even when they broken up carol made sure to bring them back together. There nothing middle class or charming about Kate family they are family of snobs users who see another woman as competitors had no problem in being racist vile. This the only thing the press can continue to use to big up kate she has no friends no charisma she a very basic average looking woman she doesn’t sell out her clothes her engagement are boring .
They are children. They should not be Playing royal roles.they need to have childhoods where they go to school and make friends.
@Tessa that’s a point. Do they only ever see other adults? ‘the perfect family’ is not insular it looks to the wider community. CarolE who I suspect is providing this nauseating copy plays with these kids with the idea she is all they need. Playmate not Granny.
@Tessa
I agree completely with your assertion; they are individuals first, irregardless of their accidental birth.
Their lives should not be reduced to indigestible media tropes; before they develop and grow into their own personalities…..
Will and Kate had a staff of 50 last year, IIRC. No, that is not at all how Kate was raised.
Louis reminds me of my son at that age. Typical hyperactivity of a boy, but behavior could be a little awkward with little ability to pay attention. My son actually benefited from drum lessons in order to pound out the energy. Kate and William need to keep an eye his mannerisms and how it could effect him in school. Training him to act perfectly is a BAD idea….well training anyone to do that is a bad idea.
I hope the teachers at whatever pricey school Louis attends know that some kids need movement to work out their anxious energy.
My brother used to tell fellow teachers complaining about antsy kids was that the solution was more recess, not restrictive behavior.
The media likes to brainwash people to portray them as perfect. Anyone with a brain sees there’s trouble.