{"id":524911,"date":"2025-10-24T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:24:13","slug":"prince-william-kate-middleton-broke-royal-protocol-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524911\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William & Kate Middleton Broke Royal Protocol \u2014 Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/strong> and Kate Middleton<\/strong><\/a> seemed to have broken royal protocol during their first child\u2019s christening. In a book titled \u201cCourtiers,\u201d author and royal expert Valentine Low revealed that the Prince and the Princess of Wales didn\u2019t follow the norm at Prince George\u2019s milestone event.<\/p>\n

After the first son\u2019s birth in July 2013, the christening took place three months later. At the time, the new parents picked their baby\u2019s grandparents rather than giving the privilege to royal blood relatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prince William and Kate Middleton did things differently at Prince George\u2019s christening, says expert<\/p>\n

Prince William and Kate Middleton reportedly broke a royal protocol, welcoming a modern era in the monarchy. When their son Prince George\u2019s christening took place in 2013, they didn\u2019t follow the exact traditions. As per the historic traditional norms, a royal child should have six \u201cstrictly royal godparents,\u201d including blood relatives.<\/p>\n

Valentine Low, a royal expert and author of \u201cCourtiers,\u201d narrated the christening incident. He claimed that the future king and queen didn\u2019t follow this rule during the event. They seemed to represent \u201csomething of a break with tradition,\u201d The Daily Mail<\/a> added the writer\u2019s excerpts.<\/p>\n

Instead of six, Prince George had seven godparents, including only one royal member. She was William and Prince Harry\u2019s cousin, Zara Tindall. The latter shared a close bond with the baby\u2019s father and supported him when Princess Diana passed away, so it was \u201cunsurprising\u201d that she was the chosen one. Aside from her, the remaining six were William and Middleton\u2019s close friends rather than royal members.<\/p>\n

The selected godparents included Oliver Baker, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, Hugh Grosvenor \u2013 the Duke of Westminster, Emilia Jardine-Paterson, Julia Samuels, and William van Custem. Among them, Low pointed out that Lowther-Pinkerton\u2019s addition was \u201cnoteworthy.\u201d Reportedly, he was the heir and his wife\u2019s former private secretary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton was their friend. He had been there at the very beginning, before they had their own household,\u201d the author stated. The ex-secretary was seemingly the new parents\u2019 \u201cconfidant,\u201d \u201cmentor,\u201d and \u201colder brother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate Middleton seemed to have broken royal protocol during their first child\u2019s christening. In a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[533,388,22881,532,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-524911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-kate-middleton","9":"tag-lifestyle","10":"tag-lifestyle-news","11":"tag-prince-william","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115429603204930075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524911","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=524911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}