The health challenges currently facing the Royal Family have made this one of the most difficult years the monarchy has experienced in recent history. With both King Charles and Princess Kate currently undergoing treatment for cancer their already close relationship has only grown stronger with the King’s spokesperson noting earlier in the year that he has stayed in the “closest contact” with his “beloved daughter-in-law” throughout the difficult period.
However like all families just because the royals share close bonds doesn’t mean that they never get on each other’s nerves and one royal expert has revealed that when Prince William and Kate made one particular blunder last year during a seriously high-profile royal event, the King was left feeling pretty “irritated” at the couple.
The expert – royal author Katie Nicholl – revealed the blunder, and the King’s reaction to it, in an episode of Vanity Fair’s Dynasty podcast, which explored how Prince William’s role has adapted within the Royal Family over the course of this last, and challenging, year. The high-profile event at which the blunder was made was none other than the Coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla, one of the most historic days in for the monarchy in decades.
I mean they were late,” said the expert. “to the Coronation, which caused the King to be irritated because we all know that he hates lateness, he doesn’t like to be kept waiting. But it was an important moment for them to be there as a family.” Nicholl also revealed that the Wales family had felt pressure surrounding the Coronation, in which Prince George played a starring role as a Page of Honour to his grandfather King Charles and Prince William paid homage to his father and promised to be his “liege man of life and limb”. She claimed that a friend of the family had explained to her, “They looked more regal than ever, but knowing them the way that she did, she could also see just how much pressure they were under.
“I mean it was a big decision to take the children to that Coronation day, it was their first state occasion. A big thing to take such young children to, particularly Louis and this friend described them as like swans. She said it was like watching them glide, because they looked so majestic and regal, but beneath the surface, they were sort of paddling frantically.”
