Prince George, who is just nine years old, understands precisely who he is and had a royally cheeky retort for a student who crossed him, according to a royal expert.
Royal author Katie Nicholl recounted that the eldest son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, 40, informed his schoolmate that his father was King and that he’d ‘better watch out.’
In her book “The New Royals” Nicholl said that George and his siblings, Princess Charlotte, seven, and Prince Louis, four, were reared with an understanding of the monarchy and a sense of duty.
She also stated that, while George has been taught that he will one day be Monarch, the Prince and Princess of Wales are attempting to avoid burdening him with too many obligations too soon.
‘They are raising their children, particularly Prince George, with an awareness of who he is and the role he will inherit, but they are keen not to weigh them down with a sense of duty,’ Nicholl wrote.
‘George understands he will one day be king and as a little boy sparred with friends at school, outdoing his peers with the killer line: “My dad will be king so you better watch out”.’
Katie also stated in her book that Kate Middleton admires the parenting styles of Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, who have two children, Lady Louise Windsor, 18, and James, Viscount Severn, 14.
Despite their parents’ status as working royals, the children, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s youngest grandchildren grew up without HRH titles and away from the spotlight.
Nicholl asserted that Kate loved how Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex were able to raise their children simply despite being at the center of the Royal Family.
Last year, a new chapter in royal biographer Robert Lacey’s revised book Battle of Brothers revealed how William and Kate hoped to bring up the matter of George’s future position at a ‘controlled moment of their choice’.
He said the pair informed Prince George of his future duty as King of England “around his seventh birthday.”
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have previously avoided addressing their oldest son’s ‘life of future royal service and duty’ to give him a ‘normal family upbringing’
‘William has not revealed how and when he broke the big news to his son.
Maybe George will give us the story one day. However, it is believed that his parents went into greater detail about the tiny prince’s future royal “service and duty” around the boy’s seventh birthday in the summer of 2020,’ he wrote.
‘William’s aim as a father, the prince stressed, was to give his son “a normal family upbringing”, enabling the monarchy “to stay relevant and keep up with modern times”.’
He went on to say that the couple’s choice to sit their firstborn down and speak honestly at their leisure reflected ‘William’s unhappiness at the haphazard fashion in which the whole business of his royal destiny had buzzed around his head from the start.’
If the chat took place around Prince George’s seventh birthday, that implies Prince George had no idea he was a future king when he stood in the December 2019 ‘Four Monarchs’ portrait alongside the Queen, 95, his father William, and grandpa Prince Charles, 72.