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With England under lockdown and primary schools currently closed in London, Kate Middleton and Prince William ’s children face homeschooling once again. Prince George and Princess Charlotte were homeschooled for parts of 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The royal siblings’ private London school, Thomas’s Battersea, moved to remote learning last March amid the pandemic. Like many parents around the world, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge found themselves tasked with teaching their kids at home. Now with the Cambridges believed to be spending the third national lockdown at Anmer Hall in Norfolk, it seems the parents of three will be taking on the role of teacher once more.
From math struggles to patience, find out what Kate and William have previously said about homeschooling...
© Matt PorteousWilliam revealed that he and Kate are good at tag teaming. “Basically we’re a good sort of team tag session where I come in and have a chat with the children and try to get them to do stuff, and then hand over to Catherine when frankly everything has gone wrong,” the Duke admitted on BBC Radio 5 Live’s That Peter Crouch Podcast .
© Matt PorteousWilliam revealed that he and Kate are good at tag teaming. “Basically we’re a good sort of team tag session where I come in and have a chat with the children and try to get them to do stuff, and then hand over to Catherine when frankly everything has gone wrong,” the Duke admitted on BBC Radio 5 Live’s That Peter Crouch Podcast .
© WireImage“George gets very upset because he wants to do all of Charlotte’s projects, like making sort of spider sandwiches is far cooler than literacy work,” Kate shared on ITV’s This Morning in May of 2020.
© Getty Images“The children have got such stamina, I don’t know how honestly. You get to the end of the day, you write down all the list of things you’ve done in that day,” the Duchess said in a 2020 interview with BBC. “You sort of pitch a tent, take the tent down again, cook, bake, you get to the end of the day, they’ve had a lovely time. But it is amazing how much you can cram into one day, that’s for sure.”
© Kensington PalaceThe future King struggled with math at home. “I have to admit, I’m a bit embarrassed about my maths knowledge,” William confessed (via Page Six) on BBC Radio 5 Live’s That Peter Crouch Podcast. “I can’t do Year 2 maths.”
© Getty Images“Homeschooling is fun, isn’t it?” the dad of three said on his documentary Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health . “You start worrying how little you actually know from your school days when you literally can’t do the maths questions at home!”
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© Kensington PalaceKate felt “mean” not giving her kids an Easter break in 2020. She told BBC, “Don’t tell the children we’ve actually kept [homeschooling] going through the holidays. I feel very mean.”
© Getty ImagesWhen asked what he learned from homeschooling on BBC Radio 5 Live’s That Peter Crouch Podcast, the Duke answered, “Probably that my patience is a lot shorter than I thought it was. That’s probably been the biggest eye-opener for me, and that my wife has super patience.”
© Kensington Palace“Someone gave me some very good advice pre-the holidays to put in some structure,” Kate told BBC (via the Daily Express). “There‘s a pretty strict routine here at home that’s massively helped us all - just having a bit of routine, [a] bit of normality. But it is unusual.”
© The Duchess of CambridgePrince William breathed a sign of relief following Prince George and Princess Charlotte’s return to school in September of 2020. “I think every parent is breathing a sigh of relief that school has started again,”he said. “Five months – it’s been wonderful, but it’s been a long five months.”
