George, Charlotte and Louis ‘Seem to Get on Incredibly Well,’ Royal Biographer Says: ‘They’re All In It Together’

After what Prince William called a “terrible” 2024, 2025 looks set to be brighter for the Prince of Wales and his family of five, royal biographer Ingrid Seward said.

Last year, both Kate Middleton and King Charles were diagnosed with cancer, the type and stage of which are not known to the public. (The palace previously said in 2024 that the king’s cancer was not prostate cancer, after he underwent surgery for a benignly enlarged prostate in January.)

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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales visit the Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts at Dulwich Picture Gallery on March 15, 2012 in London, England.

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That means Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, have seen both their mother and grandfather face the terrifying diagnosis — and while the Princess of Wales’s chemotherapy has ended (as she announced in September . 9 video messages), the King’s cancer treatment will continue in the new year.

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Princess Charlotte, Prince George and Prince Louis attend the ‘Together At Christmas’ Christmas service at Westminster Abbey on December 6, 2024 in London, England.

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In an interview with Hello!Seward told the outlet that in 2025, “Kate will want to spoil them a little, because it’s very scary for children when their parents are so sick.”

“So I think they’ll be in for a few treats this year,” she added.

Specifically, Seward said she thinks the Prince and Princess of Wales, both 42, “might take the kids skiing over the Easter holidays and they’ll probably be planning a big summer holiday because as far as we know, they haven’t gone anywhere the last time. year.”

Following Kate’s scheduled abdominal surgery in January, she announced her cancer diagnosis in a video message on March 22. Kate and the kids weren’t seen in official public until June 15 at Trooping the Color, and were rarely seen as a group last year after that, save for a September 9 video announcing Kate had finished chemotherapy and the kids’ December 6 appearance together with parents for Kate Together at Christmas concert of carols in Westminster Abbey. They ended the year as a family unit in Sandringham, with the entire family of five taking part in the annual Christmas walk to St. Mary Magdalene.

Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince Louis of Wales and Prince George of Wales at the Christmas morning service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2024 in Sandringham, Norfolk.

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“Like many celebrity parents, they are wary of exposing their children to too much scrutiny in this digital age,” Seward said. “They know they have to give birth at a certain time, but I think they keep them secret the rest of the time.”

As for other royal children before them, George, Charlotte and Louis “have a much more ordinary and informal life than their predecessors, because they are not surrounded by nannies and staff,” Seward said of the children’s lives at Adelaide Cottage. in Windsor with William and Kate. “They are with their parents a lot.”

Catherine, Princess of Wales Prince Louis of Wales, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Prince William, Prince of Wales and Prince George of Wales at the Christmas morning service at Sandringham Church on December 25, 2024 in Sandringham, Norfolk.

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Of their sibling dynamic, “The three of them seem to get along incredibly well,” Seward continued. “They are close in age, they all enjoy sports, they are bound by the situation they are in and they are all in it together. And I think that makes them all closer.”

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