Besides having their royal duties, Prince William and Kate Middleton have their hands full at home. The couple have three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.
While the three royal children are having extraordinary lives, William and Kate are working hard to give them a childhood as normal as possible.
Not only do they try and raise their children – just as any other parent – into friendly and good people, but they also have strict rules at home, which involve a specific bedtime and limits on screen time. Let’s take a look inside the private life of the William and Kate’s family – and the father’s clever trick to get his children ready for bedtime.
The couple have been married for over ten years and hav three lovely children, George (born in 2013), Charlotte (2015), and Louis (2018).
Sure, it might be a tricky thing to get your children ready for bed. However, it turns out that Prince William has a brilliant and cute trick he uses.
“We started watching one of [David Attenborough’s] newest documentaries. It’s amazing at bedtime when I can crowd the children, just shouting ‘we’re going to watch one of David’s documentaries’ and they come herding in,” William told BBC Radio 4.
“It’s the easiest way to catch my children and get them ready for bedtime.”
However, watching the documentaries narrated by Attenborough isn’t always joyful. William recalled one time George didn’t want to continue watching, because it made him sad.
“The most recent one — the extinction one — actually George and I had to turn it off,” he explained. “We got so sad about halfway through. He said to me, ‘You know I don’t want to watch this anymore.’”
“You know, he’s seven years old and he’s asking me these questions already, he really feels it. And I think every seven-year-old out there can relate to that,” William added.
It isn’t just the bedtime that is strict for the royal children. Prince William and Kate have made sure to give them limited screen time.
In the documentary ‘Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy,’ William also revealed how he’s working on keeping his late mother’s legacy alive. William wants his kids to know what kind of impact Princess Diana had on the world and her family.
He wants his children to “know who she was and that she existed” and William has also got more photos up around the house of Diana.
“It’s hard because obviously Catherine didn’t know her so she cannot really provide that level of detail, so I regularly put George and Charlotte to bed, talk about her and just try to remind them that there are two grandmothers, there were two grandmothers in their lives,” William said.