\nIt\u2019s safe to say that Prince William has been through a lot in his life. The future king lost his beloved mother, Princess Diana, while he was only an adolescent, and he has been groomed since birth to become king. Since Diana\u2019s d.e.a.t.h, William and other members of the Royal Family have done their best to honor her memory in a variety of ways.\n
It is well established that Diana attempted to raise William and his brother, Prince Harry, as normally as possible, much as the Prince of Wales and his wife, Kate Middleton, are currently doing with their own children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.\n
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However, William is following in his beloved mother\u2019s footsteps in more than simply how he raises his children. No, the Prince of Wales has disclosed yet another heartbreaking tradition inherited from the late Diana.\n
Prince William and Prince Harry were childhood best friends, and the d3ath of their mother, Princess Diana, further deepened their friendship.\n
Being a member of the Royal Family always implies that one\u2019s childhood was quite different from that of the \u201caverage\u201d person. Diana wanted her sons to feel as normal as possible, as evidenced by the discovery of some of her previous letters. Diana sent a specific letter in March 1985, just six months after the birth of her youngest son, Harry\n
\u201cWilliam adores his little brother and spends the entire time swamping Harry with an endless supply of hugs and kisses, hardly letting the parents near!\u201d Diana\u2019s handwritten letter states, as reported by The Sun.\n
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Diana wrote the letter to Cyril Dickman, a former servant at Buckingham Palace, and it was sold at auction in Cambridge in 2017. In other letters, Diana reported that an older Prince Harry was \u201cconstantly in trouble\u201d at school. Furthermore, she talked of the joys of motherhood and the \u201cdifficult period\u201d that would come later in her life.\n
Princess Diana frequently took William and Harry to theme parks and other pleasant places. She understood the significance of treating them like any other child, despite the fact that they were royalty. With this in mind, she would occasionally sneak them out of the castle for quick food.\n
\u201cI remember the princess came into the kitchen one day and said, \u2018Cancel lunch for the boys, I\u2019m taking them out, we\u2019re going to McDonald\u2019s,\u201d Diana\u2019s former personal chef, Darren McGrady, told Marie Claire.\n
\u201cAnd I said, \u2018Oh my God \u2013 your Royal Highness, I can do that, I can do burgers.\u2019 And she said, \u2018No, it\u2019s the toy they want.\u2019\u201d\n
In the summer of 2021, Prince William and Prince Harry reunited when a statue of Diana was unveiled in the Sunken Garden at London\u2019s Kensington Palace on Diana\u2019s 60th birthday.\n
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\u201cToday, on what would have been our Mother\u2019s 60th birthday, we remember her love, strength, and character \u2013 qualities that made her a force for good around the world, changing countless lives for the better,\u201d Harry and William said in a joint statement.\n
\u201cEvery day, we wish she were still with us, and our hope is that this statue will be seen forever as a symbol of her life and her legacy.\u201d\n
A few years later, in 2017, on Diana\u2019s 20th anniversary passing, the two brothers gathered to talk about their mother.\n
\u201cWhen everybody says \u2018she was funny, give us an example\u2019. All I can hear is her laugh,\u201d Harry explained.\n
\u201cShe was one of the naughtiest parents, she\u2019d come and watch us play football and smuggle sweet into her socks, literally walking back from a football match and having five packages of [candy]. And just, the whole shirt was full with sweets.\u201d\n
\u201cWe felt incredibly loved by her, and I\u2019m very grateful that the love still feels there,\u201d William added.\u201d It feels like a good time to remember her and hopefully provide a different side.\u201d\n
Prince William & Kate Middleton are raising their children \u2018as normal as possible\u2019\n
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William is attempting to provide his children as much love as Princess Diana showed him. The fact that William and his wife, Kate Middleton, are attempting to raise Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis as normally as possible has been viewed as one of the primary ways they intend to modernize the monarchy.\n
According to Judi James, a royal and body language expert, this applies to all aspects of their children\u2019s everyday existence.\n
\u201cGeorge, Charlotte and Louis are not only allowed to be playful, fun, spontaneous, and even cheeky in public, they are actively encouraged by their mum and dad, who often look at their most proud and most doting when they are doing so,\u201d James told the Daily Mail in 2023.\n
Though the expert agreed that the Prince and Princess of Wales had a \u201cunique\u201d parenting approach in terms of their children\u2019s future lives, the freedom to have fun is vital for the children.\n
\u201cWilliam and Kate\u2019s parenting duties were always going to be unique as they\u2019re inducting a prince, princess, and future king into the rules, traditions, and formalities of the royal family as well as allowing three small children to have as much fun and freedom as possible as they do so,\u201d she said.\n
Princess Diana taught Prince William and Prince Harry a lot of things, and the future king wants to continue the tradition with his offspring.\n
\u201cWe are very normal in that sense\u201d\n
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William and Kate have discussed how they are raising their children multiple times in the last decade. Before Prince Louis was born, William discussed how he and Kate intended to keep their children\u2019s lives as normal as possible, despite the fact that theirs were everything but normal.\n
\u201cAs far as we are concerned within our family unit, we are a normal family,\u201d William said in 2016. \u201cI love my children in the same way any father does and I hope George loves me the same way any son does his father. We are very normal in that sense.\u201d\n
While Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis have royal forebears, they also have loved ones who come from humbler backgrounds. Their mother\u2019s parents, Carole and Michael Middleton, are not from the royal family, which has had a significant impact on their upbringing. During a primary school visit in 2017, Kate Middleton discussed how her parents\u2019 parenting style has influenced her own.\n
\u201cMy parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life. That is why William and I want to teach our little children\u2026just how important these things are as they grow up. In my view it is just as important as excelling at maths or sports,\u201d Kate said.\n
Speaking with OK! Katie Nicholl, author of The New Royals, explained that Michael and Carole played an important part in the royal children\u2019s early years.\n
Prince William wants to teach his children that \u201csome of us need a helping hand\u201d\n
They routinely assist William and Kate in caring for the children, particularly in the days following Kate\u2019s can:cer diagnosis.\n
\u201cHaving Kate\u2019s family so intrinsically linked with them is key,\u201d Katie Nicholl explained. \u201cThe Middletons bring a great dose of normality and stability to those children\u2019s lives. They\u2019re there on the bucket and spade holidays, they\u2019re there for the parties and they\u2019re there to step in when William and Kate need them. They really are just loving, normal, down-to-earth grandparents.\u201d\n
Princess Diana\u2019s legacy is still very much alive in the Royal Family. In the infamous BBC interview following her royal exit, Elizabeth stated that she wanted to be \u201ca queen in people\u2019s hearts,\u201d not the actual queen. Diana was eager to serve everyone and educated her children that not everyone lived a good life.\n
Regardless of how sad it was to witness, Diana wanted her children to understand how brutal the world could be outside of Buckingham Palace walls.\n
William now wants his children to understand that not everyone is as lucky as they are. Speaking to the Sunday Times, he stated that he wanted George, Charlotte, and Louis to understand that \u201csome of us need a helping hand.\u201d\n
Diana took him and Harry to a homeless shelter when they were young, and the future king intends to do the same with his children.\n
The heartbreaking reason Prince William is continuing Diana\u2019s tradition with his own children
\n\u201cMy mother introduced me to the cause of homelessness from quite a young age, and I\u2019m really glad she did,\u201d William explained. \u201cI think when I can balance it with their schooling, they will definitely be exposed to it. On the school run, we talk about what we see. When we were in London, driving backwards and forwards, we regularly used to see people sitting outside supermarkets and we\u2019d talk about it.\u201d\n
He continued: \u201cI\u2019d say to the children, \u2018Why are they there? What\u2019s going on?\u2019 I think it\u2019s in all our interests, it\u2019s the right thing to do, to expose the children, at the right stage, in the right dialogue, so they have an understanding.\u201d\n
Katie Nicholl, a royal expert, told OK! that she believes it is appropriate that Prince William is passing on his mother\u2019s ideals.\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just Diana \u2013 Charles also wanted his sons to have a better understanding of life outside the Palace walls,\u201d she said. \u201cThey both came from the same perspective of wanting to raise those boys with an understanding of normal life outside the confines of royal protocol.\u201d\n
\u201cWilliam and Kate\u2019s children are probably more aware of homelessness than most children from privileged backgrounds, because it\u2019s something their father campaigns passionately for and has done since he was 18. I think their eyes have been quite wide open from an early age \u2013 and that is largely because of William and Kate\u2019s hard work,\u201d she added.\n
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