Kate Middleton 'helped to save' Prince William says Levin

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The future king and queen have been teaching Prince George, 7, and Princess Charlotte, 5, at their Norfolk home Amner Hall, over the last year. However, they will get a break next week as the February half term holiday will arrive. It comes after Kate recently admitted during a video call with other parents that teaching the young children, who usually attend Thomas’s Battersea school in south-west London, was “exhausting”.

She said at the time: “I think as parents you’ve the day-to-day elements of being a parent, but I suppose during lockdown we have had to take on additional roles that perhaps others in our communities, or in our lives would have perhaps supported us and helped us with.

“I’ve become a hairdresser this lockdown, much to my children’s horror, seeing mum cutting hair.

“We’ve had to become a teacher – and I think, personally, I feel pulled in so many different directions and you try your best with everything but at the end of the day I do feel exhausted.”

During the first lockdown back in April 2020, both Prince William and Kate spoke about during an interview with BBC Breakfast and said they did not tell their children about half term last year.

Kate said: “Don’t tell the children, we’ve actually kept it going through the holidays. I feel very mean.”

Royal expert Katie Nicholl added George and Charlotte’s school expects parents to be very hands on with schooling, which means the Duke and Duchess may have to step up their role.

She told OK: “Kate and William are very involved with the children’s schooling.

“Thomas’s Battersea expects a hands-on approach from parents, that’s part of the reason they picked it.

“George and Charlotte are studious and love to learn, so they are pretty self-sufficient when it comes to Zoom learning.

“But the school likes the children to do practical projects too.”

She added Kate’s involvement with charity work around her early years project has also influenced how she approaches home learning.

She said: “Kate has been interested in how outdoor learning can benefit children.

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“She got to meet children who had lessons outside and ask how they enjoyed it. She saw the benefit first-hand.

“Kate is aware of screen time and tries to limit the children being exposed to too much.

“When the children have a break, she takes them outside, come rain or shine.

“She wants them to get fresh air and be in nature. She loves to pick vegetables with them in the gardens.

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“If they are learning about rivers or the sea, she and William try to incorporate that into their walks.

“Charlotte is a massive fan of spiders and loves looking at them and learning about them, so they go on spider hunts so that she can see them up close and then let them go.

“Kate is also a great painter and loves art. She’s the more creative of her and William and loves to paint with the kids.

“She’s not afraid for the children to get messy with it.”

During February’s half-term holiday last year, William also revealed that he and Kate had spent the week teaching their children lambing in Norfolk.

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