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CATHERINE, PRINCESS OF WALES A Key Role at the Palace • All About the Kids • Diana’s Influence PLUS Kate’s Easy Work Wardrobe…
As Princess Kate confidently led her husband, Prince William, and their children Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5, into Westminster Abbey for her third annual Christmas carol concert, it was her time to shine. Already seated in the Abbey were her parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, sister Pippa and extended members of the royal family, who all showed their support for the Princess of Wales on her big night. The absence of King Charles and Queen Camilla signaled that this was Kate’s crowning moment, as she and William were the most senior royals in attendance. “She is carving out a special place for herself, which is celebratory,” says royal family biographer Sally Bedell Smith. After just over a year as Princess of Wales, Kate has emerged…
ONLY 10 WOMEN BEFORE HER HAVE BEEN called Princess of Wales, a title given to the spouse of a male heir apparent. That list includes Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon—though not Queen Camilla, who, though wed to the longest-serving Prince of Wales, respectfully avoided the honorific. A day after he became King, Charles made Kate the first Princess of Wales since Diana, who, by example, defined the job as global philanthropic force meets celebrated style icon. Big shoes to fill, but the former Kate Middleton has exuded a confidence in the face of inevitable comparisons with the mother-in-law she never met. Like Diana, she takes unbridled joy in her children and aims to keep their upbringing as low-key as possible. She exhibits a similar elegance and fondness for…
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WHEN PRINCE GEORGE HELPED carry his grandfather’s heavy robe during King Charles’s coronation procession on May 6, 2023, the then-9-year-old made history: He became the youngest future King to play a role in a coronation service. The privilege was not one that his parents took lightly. Aware of the pressure their son might have felt in the spotlight, they decided he was up to the task. Displaying a few understandable nerves, the determined George, along with three other young Pages of Honour, pulled it off. “He was terrific,” a close family friend told People. Added another guest: “The service was emotional and family-oriented and very inclusive—and George played his part.” While Kate and William didn’t share how they prepared their son for that historic day, the family friend says the…
AT LAMBROOK SCHOOL IN Berkshire she is called Charlotte Wales. But the third grader who arrived on her first day clutching her father’s hand is officially Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, the first female royal whose spot in line to the British throne won’t be bumped by the arrival of a younger brother. Thanks to 2013’s Succession to the Crown Act, birth order now determines who will become the next King or Queen of the U.K., regardless of gender. (Prior to that update, she would have followed her younger brother Louis.) But if the world welcomed her as the late Princess Diana’s first granddaughter, today she is, thanks in large part to her parents’ efforts, an 8-year-old, living as normal a life as is possible growing up in a “cottage” on…
