Kate’s picture that helped heal father-son relationship
Kate Middleton helped heal Prince William and Prince Charles’s often turbulent relationship which worried courtiers, despite the fallout from Prince Andrew’s car crash Newsnight interview about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and Harry and Meghan’s decision to quit Royal life.
As a hot-headed youngster William would often challenge his father, on his anger about illegal wildlife trade led him to urge that the Royal Collection should get rid of its 1, 200 items of ivory, as he believed that if they were destroyed it would set a great public example in the fight against elephant poaching.
Charles understood his son’s idealism but however, resisted, convinced that the Royal Family’s extensive collection of artifacts – such as an ivory throne wich belonged to Queen Victoria is an indelible part of its history.
During a frank pep talk Prince Charles told William he was being naïve and rebuked him for his public comments. Since then over the past two years the two men have become much closer, their father-son bond much stronger.
Kate Middleton (39) helped heal Prince William’s relationship with his dad by organising a portrait for Prince Charles’ 70th birthday. The mum-of-three is is said to have made sure “Grandpa” could give his birthday presents to seven-year-old George after also encouraged Prince Charles to visit their home, Anmer Hall and last summer reportedly made sure her family was back in time from their holiday to the Isles of Scilly to coincide with Charles’s stay.
She also took an intimate picture of Charles resting his head on her husband’s shoulder during a countryside walk last winter- a photograph later released by Clarence House for William’s birthday last June. Prince Charles said he have spent time with the Cambridges on country walks at the start of this month, when at Sandringham for estate business. Together they share their love for outdoors, as Charles and William are said to enjoy identifying wild birds to Wills’ children.
Prince Charles was reportedly concerned when Charles’s aids told the media his garden at Highgrove had been turned into a toddler’s paradise for the then two-year-old George, with a specially refurbished treehouse.