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Kate Middleton<\/a>‘s loved ones knew exactly what to get her for Christmas.\n<\/p>\n In a new profile on the Princess of Wales, The Times<\/a>\u00a0revealed that the 43-year-old mom of three has a habit of losing her phone.\n<\/p>\n Giovanna Fletcher, who interviewed the royal in 2020<\/a> for her podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby, told the outlet that Kate “told me that she was notoriously bad at keeping an eye on her phone. She always loses her phone.”\n<\/p>\n “All of her Christmas presents that year were related to her keeping track of her phone\u2026It was all about her not losing her phone,” Fletcher added.\n<\/p>\n However, it’s unlikely that Princess Kate frets much over her missing phone. Earlier this year, she penned an essay<\/a> saying that phones are a “distraction, fragmenting our focus” and fueling an \u201cepidemic of disconnection.”\n<\/p>\n \u201cWhile new technology has many benefits, we must also acknowledge that it plays a complex and often troubling role in this epidemic of disconnection,” Kate said in\u00a0The Power of Human Connection in a Distracted World,<\/a>\u00a0which she wrote with Professor Robert Waldinger from Harvard University.\n<\/p>\n Kate Middleton talks on the phone on May 5, 2023.<\/p>\n Charles McQuillan\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n Phones within the Prince and Princess of Wales’ family have also been a topic of conversation this year, as Prince William<\/a>\u00a0recently revealed that none of their three children \u2014 \u00a0Prince George<\/a>,\u00a012,\u00a0Princess Charlotte<\/a>, 10,\u00a0and\u00a0Prince Louis<\/a>, 7 \u2014 have their own phones yet.\n<\/p>\n “None of our children have any phones<\/a>, which we\u2019re very strict about,” William, 43, told Eugene Levy<\/a>\u00a0on the Apple TV+ series\u00a0The Reluctant Traveler<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n In another interview tied to his Earthshot Prize awards in Brazil, Prince William echoed the sentiment: “Our children don\u2019t have phones. I think when George moves on to secondary school, then maybe he might have a phone that has no internet access,” William said, referring to his eldest son\u00a0moving to a new school<\/a>\u00a0next year. “And to be honest, it\u2019s getting to the point where it\u2019s becoming a little bit of a, like, tense issue<\/a>.”\n<\/p>\n In The Times, Fletcher recalled “how nervous we both were” during her chat with Princess Kate, but there was an unexpected tip that helped them ease into things.\n<\/p>\n “Thankfully, Prince William came into the room, and he said, \u2018Just talk,’ ” Fletcher said.<\/p>\n Kate Middleton and Giovanna Fletcher in 2020. It resulted in one of Princess Kate’s most candid interviews ever, revealing\u00a0details of her pregnancy<\/a>, how she \u201creally\u00a0quite liked labor<\/a>” and feelings of mom guilt<\/a>\u00a0when she has to leave her children to carry out royal duties.\n<\/p>\n
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