Princess Charlotte’s tenth birthday is on May 2nd. I expect that we’ll get at least one new photo, probably not taken by the Princess of Wales. In some ways, Charlotte is the classic middle child, constantly overshadowed by her two brothers – George, the heir’s heir, and Louis, “the clown” of the family and the baby of the family. There are so many times where I’ve wondered why Charlotte’s parents don’t include her at fun, kid-friendly events. She’s only been allowed to go to Wimbledon in recent years, and she appears to be the biggest tennis fan of the family, crossing her fingers and loudly cheering for Carlos Alcaraz in the past two years. Anyway, Us Weekly put Charlotte (and Kate) on their cover this week. The cover story is full of bizarre quotes about Charlotte’s princess life. You know, where she’s living in Adelaide Cottage with zero live-in staff. Some highlights:
Charlotte loves Wimbledon: “Charlotte confidently shook hands with players and talked to adults like it was no big deal,” says royal commentator Amanda Matta. “Her ease in the spotlight is striking.”
Her parents are proud of her: As they celebrate her milestone 10th birthday on May 2, William, 42, and Kate, 43, couldn’t be more proud of their feisty little go-getter. As royal expert Sharon Carpenter notes, “They’ve watched Charlotte grow into a smart, confident and funny girl who knows how to hold her own both in the spotlight and outside of it.”
A good student: By most accounts, Charlotte is well-rounded and a good student at Lambrook School, where she goes by Charlotte Cambridge. “Her teachers treat her like any other student,” Matta tells Us Weekly. “She’s reportedly bright and diligent, and she’s said to be multilingual with a particular interest in Spanish.” Outside of the classroom, she enjoys gymnastics (“She’s often cartwheeling around the house,” says Matta), sports like tennis and archery and “anything adventurous,” Matta adds. In 2023, Kate revealed Charlotte has a passion for ballet and tap, and William once boasted that she’d mastered the art of flossing. Matta notes that the young princess is “also a budding baker” and that she “loves watching movies with her brothers.”
Charlotte runs the house: Home at Adelaide Cottage, Charlotte runs the house. “She’s the boss of the family,” says a royal insider. “Charlotte rules the roost.” Adds royal historian Marlene Koenig: “[Kate] describes Charlotte as independent and ‘the one in charge.’” William has hinted as much: In November, he revealed that she initially made him shave off his new beard. “Charlotte didn’t like it the first time,” he said. “I got floods of tears … Then I grew it back, and I convinced her it was going to be OK.”
Charlotte is the Spare: According to the royal insider, “William is trying to avoid the ‘heir and the spare’ dynamic that has haunted the royal family for the previous generations. He and Kate want Charlotte to recognize that she’s her own person with an identity that goes way beyond her place within the royal family.” It’s something particularly pertinent given William’s brother Harry’s remarks in his 2023 memoir, Spare. “I was the shadow, the support, the Plan B,” he wrote. “I was brought into the world in case something happened to Willy… This was all made explicitly clear to me from the start of life’s journey and regularly reinforced thereafter.”
Charlotte has chores: The family employs a nanny but no live-in staff, and Charlotte has chores, including cleaning her room, setting the table for dinner and helping take care of Orla, the family’s cocker spaniel. “She really enjoys helping her mother out in the kitchen and will likely be quite the chef when she gets older,” says Carpenter. “William and Kate are teaching their kids to be responsible, and we hear that their chores are sometimes rewarded with pocket money.” Carpenter adds that screen time is limited: “Charlotte and her brothers are encouraged to play outside or get creative.”
A working royal in eight years: Koenig predicts Charlotte will begin carrying out official engagements when she turns 18. “As she gets through her teens, there will be talk of her being an asset,” Koenig explains, “and the secret weapon for the royal family.” Carpenter notes that while it’s unlikely Charlotte will ever be queen (she’s third in line to the throne after her father and brother George), “she’s still a crucial member of the royal family and is expected to play a pivotal role in the monarchy.”
The last excerpt cracked me up – so long “secret weapons” Sophie, Beatrice, Eugenie, Anne and Louise. Charlotte must be the secret weapon now, at 10 years old. That’s a crazy amount of pressure to put on a young girl too, especially given the well-documented heir/spare dynamics. William and Kate have spoken and briefed about the idea that Charlotte and Louis might not end up becoming “working royals” too – like, they’re going to put all of that pressure on George to carry the monarchy, and Charlotte and Louis can do whatever they want. Now, do I think that’s the way it will actually happen? Please. Of course not. Anyway… yeah, when I read these kinds of pieces about the Wales kids, I’m just so happy that Harry and Meghan got the hell out of there.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images, Kensington Palace. Cover courtesy of Us Weekly.
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- Catherine Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte photographed on the palace balcony following Trooping of the Colour on Saturday 15 June 2024 at Buckingham Palace, London. Trooping the Colour is a traditional parade held to mark the British Sovereign’s official birthday. This year the colours were trooped by The Irish Guards. .,Image: 881899109, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Julie Edwards/Avalon.Red, Model Release: no, Credit line: Julie Edwards / Avalon
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- Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis walk to attend the “Together At Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey in London, Britain, December 6, 2024.,Image: 943708353, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Isabel Infantes/Avalon/Avalon
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- Trooping the Colour 2024 ceremony, marking the monarch’s official birthday. Featuring: Prince George, Prince Louis, Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Jun 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- VIP guests attend the mens final at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships at the AELTC in London, UK Featuring: Pippa Middleton, Princess Charlotte Where: London, United Kingdom When: 14 Jul 2024 Credit: Corinne Dubreuil/Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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What the hell is this article doing in a US magazine?!
I know the British tabloids do schlock, but this is so agonizingly stupid.
They gotta put it somewhere. Yep she probably does run the household because Can’t is useless with her own children. Poor girl already touted as the new secret weapon. Let’s hope she decides to be like Harry and write her story of her life. Bet that would be full of shocking things.
@SUSAN COLLINS
I’ve already written somewhere that these children have their psyche damaged from a very young age because they live in an artificial world of pretense and lies created by their parents and are forced to live in it. They live like children of divorcees, in two houses, mainly with Carole, but they have to remember that it’s a secret. They see how their parents treat each other, throw things at each other, and then participate in the farce of a “love movie”, scenes of which the children watched in disbelief and Charlotte in shock.
How can they develop normally in such an atmosphere and such deception? They are usually sad and there is a complete lack of closeness with their parents, especially with Kate. You can also see that the brothers listen to their sister, not their mother, and you can see that she is skilled at it, unfortunately, this means that this ten-year-old is more likely to take care of household or siblings’ matters than the parent
@ TESSA
I doubt that life is normalized there. Carole is in charge, but she’s mostly busy blackmailing William, stalking Meghan, and ordering articles about sainted Kate.
A 10 year old should not be running the household. I think the staff hired do the work
William and Harry were very close to their nanny and I suspect these kids are close with nanny Maria as well because she is the main constant in their lives.
@TOJAR they have the same emotional damage as kids of influencers. It’s the double/paralel life, the duty to tell lies.
Not really.
In the case of the British royals, there is isolation from a normal environment and a lack of normal, healthy contact with peers – a security guard sits with them in school during classes, and follows them around during breaks. As George’s classmate said, it’s ok, but outside the group.
The omnipresent media also follows them step by step and makes headlines.
They also don’t have a stable home and no support from their family. I thought Carole was like that for them, but unfortunately she is obsessed with the crown and HM, not her grandchildren. Charlotte plays the role of support for her siblings, but what about her? She’s 10 years old.
I was thinking about this but at some point an influencer’s kids can at least opt out after 18. And a lot of influencer’s never show the kids ‘ faces. That is not necessarily the case here at all. By any means.
They’re setting her up to be Anne and make her a workhorse for the rest of her life. That kind of pressure on a child is horrible.
I bet they’re privately rooting for her to be messy and tragic gossip fodder like Margaret. Either way, it’s ghoulish.
Yup, that too. Anything to deflect from George. She and Louis are in the firing line especially if their parents want to cover their problems. Harry saw his father feed him to the wolves to help the Rottweiler’s rehabilitation, and his brother Willie to cover his pegging; the spares are meat to the rats when their parents – and grandparents – are in trouble.
Charlotte cried the first time william had a beard?? A beard grows over time, how much time passed for her to see him and be shocked enough to cry over it?? Makes no sense when you live under the same roof. Growing a beard and shaving it off isn’t the same. There’s no shock to GROWING a beard
And he obviously doesn’t care how she felt or feels about it.
The way the British media completely glossed offer this major accidental reveal
Charlotte Cambridge, huh?
shoegirl77, I thought that was interesting, too. I guess it’s okay that WanK and the children had the same last name before QE2 died. I can see why they want to wait to change the last name until George is PoW. Would their last name then be Windsor? Or?
It should be Charlotte Wales by now.
I was more thinking along the lines of the shrieking and hysterics/testerics of Meghan using her name of Sussex and then this is dropped into this piece. They’re never not showing their racist asses.
They started that school under Cambridge and it’s probably more that they don’t want to change the paperwork. I suspect they will use Wales when they start secondary school.
Poor Charlotte, she’ll need therapy soon.
Zara, at least, was allowed to rebel – her tongue stud was memorable. But poor Charlotte, her parents dislike work so off she goes to do her duty and support George.
PS Lili is also a Princess.
And she says goodbye to George when he’s taken to games and she’s not.
Legally, she’s not the spare at all. Louis is.
Yes she is. QEII issued a LP when Kate was pregnant with George in case he was a girl. Charlotte is above Louis in the line. It just doesn’t apply retroactively so it doesn’t change anything for any of the other Windsors like Anne, Beatrice, and Eugenie, etc.
She certainly is the Spare and ahead of Louis. It was about time the rules were changed.
The law was changed, Charlotte is the spare. The rest of the aristocracy still puts men first though. She can inherit the throne but she can’t inherit a Duchy.
Depends on the title and the wording when it was granted. Some include women in the succession.
Actually, Charlotte is the spare. The Queen changed the rules in 2013:
This was a result of the Succession to the Crown Act of 2013, which changed tradition to state that the gender of a royal born after October 28, 2011 does not give that person, or their descendants, precedence over anyone else in determining the next monarch. Before this legislation was passed, older sisters were passed by their younger brothers in the order of succession and Charlotte would in these circumstances have dropped behind both Prince George and Prince Louis in line to the throne.
Charlotte is currently 3rd in line, behind her father, William, and her older brother George.
Under the old rules, Louis would have moved ahead of her in the line of succession, but not since 2013.
Mvsn: interestingly they didn’t change the Duchy rules, that only a male heir can be Duke of Cornwall.
So should something happen to George and William gets king and Charlotte princess of Wales, she would not be entitled to the Duchies income ( but her brother Louis would?).
I believe the duchy only goes to the first male child of the monarch and if there isn’t one it is part of the crown. Whatever happened when George VI was king, Elizabeth did not get income from the duchy. Louis cannot inherit the duchy from George because he is a sibling.
Charlotte is not yet a teenager and the Firm is planning on putting her to work. They accepted the Sussexes are not coming back and I’m glad they’re not. Archie and Lili will be free to have lives and careers in the US. Wait until Archie turns six next Tuesday, May 6. Social media will crash.
Who is Amanda Matta that is giving direct quotes? This is quite a bit of detail about Charlotte from someone who seems to be quite an insider. Is she also a friend of the family? They usually quote sources and insiders but Matta is not quoting anyone else, she’s making direct statements about Charlotte. Did Kate okay this person to give the interview to US Weekly and why a US and not UK publication? So many questions. Strange that they didn’t reach out to People magazine. Interesting 🤔
Amanda Matta is a tiktoker who lives in the US. She knows as much as we do about Charlotte.
Amanda is a ‘royal’ TikTok influencer from the US. She has no insider knowledge she is making it up. US probably couldn’t get any actual friends or staff to go on the record so they settle for someone who makes podcasts.
She has a big following on Tik-Tok. She lives in the US and has zero royal connections.
Former People editor moved to US Weekly. That is why they are running all these cover stories both from KP and Sussexes. The editor probably brought their sources there.
Amanda has no royal family connections. It is weird they are taking her as a source.
She’s a TikToker who typically is pretty fair and critical of the Waleses- she’s not anti Wales, she’s just more willing to call out some of the BS storylines in the press etc.
to see her now parroting some of those storylines is……interesting.
Shamefully I’m still a twitter creeper so I know that she was being called out hard recently by Sussex supporters on that platform. No idea if she’s an opportunist, but if she is, she might see herself as having more opportunities with the Middletons and Wales fans than with the Sussex fans. So that’s why I’m not surprised to see her here parroting these storylines. Not surprised at all. In fact, I’d expect to see more of it.
She suddenly became pro Palestine when that one charity was dropped and got an interview with the woman. She also didn’t back down once the Star of David and swastika mural was revealed along with the fact it replaced a mural of Breonna Taylor.
And of course never pointing out the absolute silence from the royal foundation on supporting Palestine.
So yeah I expect more of this in the future too.
A working royal with 18? Where other royals go studying, preferable abroad?
Helping her mother out in the kitchen? Wouldn’t that be the cook.
Let this child really have a good spirit, so she leads her own life as she wants. If that outside the royals, so be it.
But contrary to all that bullshit she is worth billions, how much real money would she own? Or will she be dependent on father and brother?
She will be dependent on her father and then eventually on her brother and then on her brothers heir if she outlives George. I feel for all the Wales kids for different reasons but the pressure on Charlotte to be the perfect princess (beautiful, thin and traditional) will be enormous .
She would be next if George does not have children. I hope she is not dependent on people. ANd her father will allow her to marry her choice, like he tried to do with Harry (even if he had no business doing so).
I hope William lets all the children marry their choices.
And undoubtedly Kate will have issues once Charlotte is a little older and attracts more attention.
And what if this poor child wants to become a lawyer, or a doctor, nurse, teacher, airline pilot, art historian, military officer, or a million other things?
I really feel sorry for the royal children who have their future planned out for them as much as the neglected child born into poverty with abusive parents.
Certainly, she should have a gap year abroad and university education, but without the restrictions planned for her because of her birth situation.
If she is as bright at this story claims I expect she will go to University.
Lordy. Truly wish the Wales kids well bc “the firm” is a messy and cold system. I know it’s charlotte’s birthday coming up but it kind of feels like the midds commissioned a Charlotte princess piece real quick after a picture appeared of another princess’s red hair. I hope that’s not the case and it was already planned for her birthday bc I’m loathe to think of the midds and KP already playing into that bullshit. But I don’t put it past them. So yeah, I’m glad the Sussex fam is far away.
Unless she gets a good university education and marries someone she loves and who loves her back, she is going to be a “slave” to the “firm” because they will be able to control her life through the media and money, exactly the way they tried to do with Harry. Ditto for poor younger brother as well.
I am so thankful the Sussex’s have the life they do now and left this dysfunctional mess behind them. She’s only ten and they are already building the cage of her future.
Weren’t they saying Sophie was the secret weapon? These royal experts, at least two of them live in the US, are projecting a lot on Charlotte. I felt very sad reading this piece. Why are these magazines writing features about Charlotte when she’s not even a working royal? I agree with Kaiser, thank god Harry and Meghan took Archie out of this mess.
For there to be an entire cover about Charlotte with her picture on the cover on an American mag about what it’s really like to be a princess, come on, I feel like it was lowkey commissioned by KP or the Midds. Maybe I’m wrong though. Most of the details can probably be gleaned from past articles on anything having to do with Charlotte. SO basically info that was already in the public realm for “experts” to reiterate. Doesn’t seem like anything new so maybe it’s not.
Playing Prince and Princess as children for Halloween and dressing up would be wanting to see what it’s really like and read storybooks. . It is not a career ambition for US adults.. Maybe for Kate and her family who live in the UK or others are aspiring to “marry off” their daughters to UK Princes.
“Secret” because you’d expect her to get to remain a child and for her useless parents to be pulling their weight instead of broadly hinting that a ten year old girl will need to. I mean they’ve only made “we’re NORMAL” their leitmotif and explanation for not working. “We’re NORMAL, we can’t be expected to work three hours in a day, that’s not NORMAL.” “We’re NORMAL, our home is totally and completely unstaffed like all middle class NORMAL people. We’re totally just like all of you and anyway here’s our daughter we’re going to be relying on.”
I expect the staff all live next door.
At this point, I think the only person who they haven’t claimed is the secret weapon is Edward. Poor Edward, his wife is more of an asset to his birth family than he is, LOL.
They’ve used the “secret weapon” line so many times that I’m sure if one of us Googled “BRF” and “new secret weapon,” there would be dozens and dozens of pages of results. It seems like Sophie has been the one described that way most frequently in recent years, but they’ve done it with Louise, too, and every once in a while, Beatrice (if they like her outfit).
Referring to a person— especially a small child— as a “secret weapon” feels kind of gross to me? In this case the person who said it, Marlene Koenig, is just a random American royal watcher who refers to herself as a “royal expert” and somehow manages to get paid occasionally for spouting nonsense like this. She doesn’t know any more than any of us do about what these people’s lives are like behind the scenes. She knows exactly what to say, though— these articles are so formulaic. You just plug the names in and the rest of this crap writes itself, or is pulled word-for-word from an older article about some different “secret weapon.” It’s all so stupid.
Poor Charlotte. (And George. and Louis.)
How “secret” is a weapon really when it’s being trumpeted on the cover of Us and the Daily Mail
This is all I’ve got, because that article sounds like a load of make believe crap. She’s a darling little girl, I wish her all the best in the world. I also wish her to never feel at any time like she’s just a “Spare”.
Well, it sounds like she’s a normal kid – doing pretty well in school, doing cartwheels, setting the table, feeding the dog. Until you get to Monarchy’s Secret Weapon. And why “secret”? Everybody knows who she is and that she’ll have obligations to the monarchy.
Kates on the cover again. I doubt Kate works in the kitchen they have 66 people on staff. Charlotte will be out to work at 18. What about university.charlotte already is typecast and at age 10.
Koenig is now being quoted, she has a lot of opinions and projections. And is out to praise the Wails.
I hope the queen left her some money, so she can start her own life. the Money Diana left Harry was a life saver. since Kitty Kat want to be QC there is no chance of a nest egg for the Spares
But they always said all wealth goes from monarch to monarch, the private wealth too. So there would be no money to inherit.
Yes Diana looked after Harry, even before her divorce she asked her father for money to invest for Harrys future. Which says a lot about what she thought about Charles taking care of Harry. Especially if Harry wanted to do his own thing.
Do George and Louis have “chores” too? I doubt Kate washes dishes or scrubs floors, they have a lot of help.
Lordy they really need to stop with the line about “no live in help.” they live right across the driveway, the staff quarters are visible in every picture of Adelaide Cottage.
this makes me feel sad for Charlotte. They’re going to make her start working at 18? So I guess she won’t get the decades to “learn” that William has gotten?
If they genuinely cared about her and Louis, besides just their roles as spares, they would actually take steps to slim down the monarchy and its spending and model themselves after other royal households in Europe, where the monarch and the heir do most of the work and the larger family appears for big events but not as part of the regular royal “work force.”
It depends on George–if he imitates his parents and shirks the work. Charlotte would have to take up the slack.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens. I do wish the Wales kids well. For as much as the Wales have talked about a slimmed down monarchy and Charlotte and Louis being able to do their own thing…they’ve also made a habit of using those kids as a distraction for good press. Charlotte wishing the Lions well in a soccer vid when William skipped the WWC is just one example. I just don’t see William and Kate letting that go, which means keeping them in.
I think its going to be kind of weird, right? W&K want to use the kids as shields and the kids working or at least doing more appearances earlier will mean they continue to be shields and also help with the problem of the aging royal family.
but W&K hate to work, why do we think they’re going to want their kids to work (they cant use “school breaks” as an excuse if the kids are going to events while in college) and why do we think the kids are going to want to work? Where are they learning their work ethic? Not from their parents, that’s for sure. They’re learning that royal life is a lot of vacations with a few photocalls a year.
Yeah, the thing about courting attention is that it requires upkeep, and haven’t we heard that we’ll be seeing less of the kids?
Spot on. It’s a real tension point. And that’s before even touching the issue of security and the idea of “non-working royal” or some sort of a half-in deal. Presumably these kids are going to be in their 20s and wanting to go on vacays with friends. So, if they went to Trooping once does that mean they get guaranteed security for any trips they ever want to go on for that year? I see the Wales as doing whatever they want regardless of however hypocritical it looks. Basically, Will and Kate will eventually further prove how unfair Harry and the Sussex family’s security issue was as well as the idea of non-working/half-in royals. But if ever those kids have a conflict with their parents, or marry someone they don’t like, security issues will come up again.
The increasing sovereign grant along with the decreasing engagements done by this family will become an issue for William, especially if he and Kate continue to do next to nothing. This will play a role in terms of how Charlotte and Louis can lead their lives.
Sheesh, she’s a kid. This is ridiculous.
Kate, though, likely will be pleased to see her princess daughter spotlighted after we all got a glimpse of the long, strawberry hair of Princess Lili.
The freak out over Lili and her red hair is also because she is the only grandchild of Diana with blue eyes and she probably looks a lot like Diana more than the rest.
They need to leave this poor child alone.
Charlotte does shine when she’s out. She is the typical middle child as well as typical “daughter”. You can see it when she watches after Louis. Just from what I have seen I love these kids and hope the best for them.
….the art of flossing…did William mean flossing her teeth or is that word used differently in Britain?
lmao its a dance move that was really popular a few years ago. You kind of move your hands and your hips in a way that it looks like….I dont know. I’m convinced its only for the young lol.
Yes, that’s a lot of pressure for a young girl. I hope some of the article is true, especially being asked to do chores and learning Spanish. I wonder how many, if any, of the royal family are truly bi- or multi-lingual. My opinion is that it’s becoming more and more important to know another language in these times. All the best to the kid — her life will be in the spotlight.
Maria is Spanish and spent a lot of time with the kids, so it is likely she picked up Spanish from her.
How can they all be secret weapons when the BM keeps blabbing about them? 🤔
Oh for god’s sake, how ridiculous are these people. She’s 10, let her 10 and stop putting all these ridiculous expectations on her and stop putting these kids that you don’t even know into these fantasy slots that these crazy people make up.
She has the most poise and presence in that family
She does, yes, like many who are the only girls in the family. She’ll be fine. It’s George I worry about. He seems so anxious and vulnerable. My heart just goes out to him.
She’s v cute. The cover at her looking up at her mom is v cute. My heart goes out to all the wales kids. The monarchy ain’t healthy for kids. And the adults they eventually grow into. Sorry it’s just not.
What if she doesn’t want to? Play a role in this family? If she doesn’t want to be “Ann”? Then what? Then they’ll do to her what they did to Harry. I feel very sorry for her because whatever she will do, it will never be right or valuable. Sacrificing one child to the monarchy is enough. One is already too many. At least let the other children out of this prison. With blessing, not hate.
They describe a 10 year old as a future “asset”
That poor child. She’s in for a rough life if she doesn’t also escape to California.
Sophie is being substanced by a 10-year-old. She must already be on the phone, commissioning some articles about her being the linchpin of this entire institution.
Lady Louise was called the “secret weapon” a year or two ago.
@Lau I’m lol at the image of Sophie furiously making phone calls today
I hope Louis and Charlotte figure out a way to get to Uncle Harry in California and aren’t abused as lifelong scapegoats and workhorses for their lazy and dull parents. Charlotte is already getting cornered into stereotypical gender roles and little Louis is already getting the clown/joker role Harry was cast in. The Wails are so unoriginal. As soon as the Wails are empty nesters. Keener will claim she can’t work because her elderly parents need her, then she will use her grandchildren as an excuse not to work, then being to elderly herself will be the excuse. Willy just won’t bother to show up, but will be the ultimate financially abusive domestic abuser. Will he deny security to his own children if they don’t do his bidding? Yeap. Will he sabotage their ability to work and earn a living/expect them to do royal duties in his place while he never stepped up for KC or QE? Yeap again.
She won’t be 18 for 8 more years. She’ll take a gap year and go to college. That’s 14-15 more years (if she goes to a Scottish university like her parents it’s a 4 year program). Even then she will only be 24 years old. If Charles dies at any point during that time – and even if he didn’t have cancer it wouldn’t be unlikely – that’s a decade to fill of media coverage, etc. No wonder the Wales are having a panic attack and are not ready to lead.
According to Kate and the late Queen, Charlotte is quite feisty and is the boss of George, and of Louis too, it seems. We see her guiding both brothers on public occasions. She just seems mature beyond her years and comports herself with confidence beyond the average ten-year old. During the funeral of the Queen, Charlotte looked like she knew exactly how to behave, and seemed more dignified than Kate and Sophie, who seem to be busy mean-girling Meghan. Charlotte is also the only girl in the family. Hope she gets to follow her interests, and carve out a happy life for herself, although she seems to have been born with an inborn sense of royal duty. Hope she has a happy childhood and is not burdened too soon with being a ‘working royal.’ And I hope her feistiness keeps her in good stead.
She needs to be a child. Make friends and have fun. She can deal with royal duties when she grows up. She should not be burdened by sense of royal duty.at a young age. She should get a university degree and develop a real interest in her field of study.
But no one was interested in Louise. I am sure she is a lovely young woman, but she always looked a bit frumpy, and was often sent out wearing Sophie’s cast offs.