Prince William put foot down to protect his children against press

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Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge are known to be very protective of their privacy, especially when it comes to their three young children. Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis’ exposure to the public has been limited since childhood, a move commentators suggest was influenced by the Duke’s own experience. Royal correspondent Emily Andrews claimed William wanted to avoid his children going through the same struggle he and Prince Harry had to grapple with when growing up.

Speaking to Channel 5’s Kate: Our Queen in Waiting, Ms Andrews said: “Photographers, journalists, were given a huge amount of access to William and Harry.

“And we know both men have talked about how they found that very difficult.

“So when he had his own children, he was absolutely adamant he was not going to allow anything like the level of access to his family that had been allowed to him and Harry.”

Vanity Fair’s royal editor Katie Nicholl said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have slowly developed a “very clever” strategy to shield George, Charlotte, and Louis from undue attention.

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She said: “William and Kate had to figure out a way of finding a happy medium and they accept there’s always going to be an interest in their children’s lives.

“And they have found a very clever way of making it work.”

Ms Andrews added: “A masterstroke that William and Kate or their advisors came up with was to utilise Kate’s passion for photography.

“And so she decided that she would take her own pictures of the children and then these will be released to the papers and to the wider public.

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“It’s PR gold, it still retains that home-spun narrative.”

She added: “This is not some formal portrait of the Queen or Charles when they were growing up. This is a new, relatable form of royalty.”

The Duchess of Cambridge, whose dissertation at university focussed on photography, has been using her passion for snapping pics to personally capture her children’s official portraits for years.

Kate is not the only royal mum to have taken the management of her children’s images into her own hands.

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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden began taking her own pictures following the birth of her eldest child, Princess Estelle, in 2012 and continued doing so when her son Prince Oscar was born.

Expert Camilla Tominey noted: “Conscious that the public would demand to see ‘at home’ imagery of George – and later Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – but anxious not to thrust them into the limelight, the Duchess borrowed an idea from Victoria, the Crown Princess of Sweden.”

Kate has also been snapping photos of her husband Prince William on the occasion of his 38th birthday, when he was photographed playing with George, Charlotte, and Louis in the gardens of Anmer Hall, Norfolk.

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