The Duchess of Cambridge is looking ‘more confident’ on solo royal trips because she finds it easier to relax without Prince William by her side, a royal biographer has claimed.
Referring to Kate’s recent solo trip to Denmark, Robert Jonbson pointed out how the Duchess playfully whizzed down a slide on a visit to the LEGO Foundation PlayLab, and said she seemed completely at ease.
Speaking to True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat, he said: ‘The fact that she went down that slide, I’m not sure she necessarily would have done that if he [William] was there. She was on good form.’
He described Prince William as being ‘a bit fussy’ on royal jobs, and said that even after a decade of official duties, Kate still looks to William to make sure she’s doing the right thing when they carry out joint engagements.
Speaking to True Royalty TV’s The Royal Beat, Robert Jobson pointed out that Kate, 40, was on ‘good form’ on her recent trip to Copenhagen where she went down a slide at the LEGO Foundation PlayLab
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pictured on a visit to Abergavenny and Blaenavon in Wales this week. Robert Jobson said that Prince William can be ‘a bit fussy’ on royal engagements
Describing Kate’s recent outings, Jobson said: ‘She was all smiles, very confident. Kate seemed more relaxed without William, who can be a bit fussy when he’s on royal jobs.
‘Probably more confident than when she’s alongside William. She spoke very well. I thought she really came out of herself when she was there…She didn’t have to refer to William.
‘When you see them together, she’s always double-checking whether it’s the right thing to do, even now.’
Kate shares Prince George, eight, Princess Charlotte, six, and Prince Louis, three, with Prince William, 39, and has been carrying out official royal duties with her husband since they married in 2011.
The Duchess of Cambridge looked confident and relaxed as she visited Stenurten Forest Kindergarten in Copenhagen, Denmark, last month
Meanwhile, in recent weeks, the Duchess has appeared to be ‘sharing more’ about her family because she ‘needed to raise the bar’ following the Queen’s recent health struggles and Megxit.
As well as taking Prince George along to last Saturday’s rugby at Twickenham, she shared her children’s half term activities and even opened up about feeling broody.
Royal biographer Sarah Gristwood said the mother-of-three’s candid confessions showed she has opened up in the last year, telling People: ‘The changing times have required Kate to start to share a bit more.
‘She’s done it carefully enough to be relatable — nothing that would cause controversy and nothing that could be considered oversharing.’
Last week, Kate spoke about feeling broody, joking that meeting babies always makes her want another one while chatting to parents at Copenhagen’s Children’s Museum.
At the Children’s Museum, Kate heard about the Understanding Your Baby research project which trains health visitors to help new parents as they begin to notice and interpret their babies’ behavioural cues.
In recent weeks, the Duchess has appeared particularly candid about the family’s life at home (pictured with Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis)
After meeting with two eight-month-old baby boys and their parents, she joked: ‘It makes me very broody.
‘William always worries about me meeting under one-year-olds. I come home saying, ‘”Let’s have another one”.’
Meanwhile she and Prince William were joined by Prince George at the weekend as they watched the England vs Wales game at Twickenham Stadium on Saturday.
And days ago, the future Prince and Princess of Wales were visiting a goat farm in Llanvetherine, near Abergavenny, and shared how Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis had helped with their animals during half term.
It is thought the family were in Norfolk, where the Prince of Wales has been working to turn the Queen’s Sandringham estate into a fully organic operation.
Last week, Kate spoke about feeling broody, joking that meeting babies always makes her want another one while chatting to parents at Copenhagen’s Children’s Museum
As they toured Pant Farm, where Gary and Jess Yeomans, both 50, produce goats’ milk that has supplied a local cheesemaker for the past two decades, William spotted a robot silage sweeper in one of the barns.
Gary explained it could also be used to move feed, and the duchess replied: ‘That was George’s job at half term – moving feed.’
William told his hosts the children had been getting involved on the farm and added: ‘We are trying some Agroforestry as well.’
Meanwhile Kate told her hosts: ‘I was looking into my ancestry and there was someone who was a rare breed goat farmer. I will have to find out which one it was. It was just after the First World War.’
With Prince Andrew’s legal difficulties, the Queen’s Covid battle, as well as the Firm’s concerns over the imminent publication of Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir, the Duchess has been touted as playing a key role in shaping the future of the Monarchy.
Having already been writing for a year, the prince is set to turn in a manuscript, which he promised will be a ‘first-hand account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful’, by the end of this year. It is set to hit the shelves in 2022.
In addition, members of the Royal Family will also have to prepare themselves for series five of Netflix drama The Crown, which has started filming and will dramatise a notoriously difficult period of time in their recent history.
It will cover the Queen’s ‘annus horribilis’, a Latin phrase meaning horrible year which she used in 1992 to describe the collapse of three of her children’s marriages – including Prince Charles’ to Princess Diana – and the fire that severely damaged her Windsor Castle home.
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