Kate, Princess of Wales, has taken a leaf out of her late mother-in-law’s rule book when it comes to raising her three children without all the trappings of royalty
The Princess of Wales is following in the footsteps of her predecessor Princess Diana when it comes to family life.
Despite her status, Diana wanted her children to experience as normal a life as possible. As such, she would endeavour to do typical family things instead of enlisting the help of nannies.
It’s a trend that Princess Kate has been keen to follow. She mainly resides with her young family at Adelaide Cottage, which is located on the Royal Estate of Windsor Great Park, close to where Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and six-year-old Prince Louis go to school.
The house itself is surprisingly humble with its four bedrooms and, as previously reported in MailOnline, William and Kate decided not to bring their nanny with them when they relocated to the cottage in 2022.
Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo has been part of the Wales’ family since Prince George was just six months old. But rather than live with William, Kate and their children as she did previously, she now lives in a separate property close by.
The reason for the change was said to be because William and Kate are also choosing to raise their children in as ordinary an environment as possible. George, Charlotte, and Louis reportedly help out with a number of household chores, including cooking, laying the table and clearing up around the home.
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While Diana was surrounded by servants and palace aides while she raised Prince William and Prince Harry, she certainly shared similar values to her future daughter-in-law Kate.
And according to a former royal chef, Diana would clash with staff over her parenting approach. She often preferred to take a more informal approach to William and Harry’s mealtimes, letting them eat meals on trays in front of the TV, and once cancelling their planned dinner to take them out to McDonalds because they wanted the Happy Meal toys.
In an interview with HELLO, Darren McGrady said of the late Princess: “She wasn’t strict at all. She let them be boys, young boys! There was always a battle between her and Nanny. Nanny would say, ‘No, they’re eating their dinner, they’re having cabbage.’
“And the Princess would say, ‘No, if they’re with me and they want loaded potato skins and fried chicken then they can have that. And if they don’t eat it and they still want pudding, they can have that too!’ She was much more relaxed than Nanny.”
Darren, who worked at Buckingham Palace from 1982 to 1993, and at Kensington Palace from 1993 until Princess Diana’s death in 1997, continued: “They liked comfort food dishes. They loved banana flan, anything with banana really, banana ice cream. They loved things like mixed grills, burgers, pizza, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and cream chicken sauce… They were royal children but they still had children’s palates.”
