{"id":389263,"date":"2025-09-01T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389263\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:07:09","slug":"kate-will-made-a-surprising-choice-about-prince-georges-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389263\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate &#038; Will Made a Surprising Choice About Prince George&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe really has had a period of a normal childhood,\u201d Lacey told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/why-kate-middleton-prince-william-delayed-telling-prince-george-royal-destiny-as-future-king-exclusive-11798558\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a>. \u201cWilliam deliberately delayed this news until the last possible moment. It shows special care and thoughtfulness\u2014it also tells us something about how William felt about the weight of the crown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That approach extends to Charlotte, 10, and Louis, 7, too. William is just as focused on letting all three children grow up as kids first and future royals second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilliam takes his role as father of the future King as seriously as he takes his role as future King. That\u2019s key,\u201d royal biographer Robert Hardman explained. \u201cHis overarching priority is making sure they enjoy it rather than fear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If George were to step into the role of heir apparent before finishing school, insiders say the family would still prioritize giving him space. \u201cThey would want him to focus on having freedom before giving him any royal titles,\u201d one palace source shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe really has had a period of a normal childhood,\u201d Lacey told People. \u201cWilliam deliberately delayed this news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-389263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115129197720488779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}