What Princess Charlotte calls her father Prince William© The Duchess of Cambridge

Find out what Princess Charlotte calls her dad Prince William

Kate Middleton’s daughter penned a moving card for her late grandmother, Princess Diana


UPDATED MARCH 15, 2021 12:27 PM EDT

To mark Mother’s Day in the UK on Sunday, Kensington Palace shared sweet cards that  Kate Middleton ’s children— Prince George ,  Princess Charlotte  and  Prince Louis —made for their Granny Diana. In her card, Princess Charlotte, five, revealed how she sweetly refers to her dad,  Prince William , as “papa.”

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Princess Charlotte referred to her dad Prince William as papa in a Mother’s Day card for Princess Diana

“Dear Granny Diana,” the little Princess began. “I am thinking of you on Mother’s Day. I love you very much. Papa is missing you. Lots of love Charlotte.”

George, seven, also penned a heartfelt message for his late paternal grandmother. “Dear Granny Diana, Happy Happy Mother’s Day. I love you very much and think of you always. Sending lots of love from George,” the future King wrote.

Kensington Palace revealed that every year on Mother’s Day, the Cambridge kids make cards remembering their grandmother, who passed away in 1997, for Prince William. The Duke of Cambridge has spoken in the past about keeping his mother  Princess Diana ’s memory alive for his kids by “constantly talking about Granny Diana.”

“We’ve got more photos up around the house now of her and we talk about her a bit,” he shared in the 2017 Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy documentary. “It’s hard, because obviously Catherine didn’t know her so she cannot really provide that level of detail, so I do, regularly putting George and Charlotte to bed, talk about her and just try and remind them that there are two grandmothers, there were two grandmothers, in their lives and so it’s important that they know who she was and that she existed.”