{"id":2146814,"date":"2025-11-10T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2146814"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:16:22","slug":"prince-william-talks-parenting-pre-teens-and-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/prince-william-talks-parenting-pre-teens-and-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William talks parenting, pre teens and phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the biggest and most pressing questions the parents<br \/>\nof a pre-teen face nowadays and Prince William has revealed that he<br \/>\nand the Princess of Wales are currently struggling with it.<\/p>\n<p>William and Kate\u2019s eldest son, Prince George, is now 12 and like<br \/>\nmany of his peers, there\u2019s one thing he really, really wants \u2013 a<br \/>\nphone of his own.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to go<br \/>\ndown the no phone route \u2013 although a change might be imminent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"518\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-215084\" alt=\"Prince George shakes hands with a woman at the start of the Festival of Remembrance\" src=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-George-at-RAH.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-George-at-RAH.png 664w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-George-at-RAH-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Prince-George-at-RAH-360x281.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Speaking during an interview given while he was in Brazil for<br \/>\nthe Earthshot Prize and the COP30 Heads of State meeting, William<br \/>\nrevealed that none of his three children have phones.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said that George might get a phone in the very near<br \/>\nfuture. William said \u201d<em>when George moves onto secondary school,<br \/>\nmaybe he\u2019ll have one with limited access.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prince George is set to leave Lambrook Preparatory School in the<br \/>\nsummer, just as he turns 13. At that stage, he\u2019ll move on to<br \/>\nsecondary education with Eton among the favourite schools for the<br \/>\nsecond in line to the throne to attend.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, William and Kate might consider a phone with the<br \/>\nPrince saying they can have benefits for communication.<\/p>\n<p>However, like all parents, he and Kate have concerns about the<br \/>\nhuge amount of material available online and the way often<br \/>\nunsuitable content escapes censure online.<\/p>\n<p>William said in the interview that he and the Princess of Wales<br \/>\nlike to be open with their children and discuss everything with<br \/>\nthem in an appropriate manner. This included the cancer diagnosis<br \/>\nthe Princess of Wales received and the preventative chemotherapy<br \/>\nthat she went through in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201dthere\u2019s no rulebook for being a parent, and we chose<br \/>\nto talk about everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"623\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-215017\" alt=\"Prince William stands in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro\" src=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio.png 449w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio-360x500.png 360w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"623\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-215017\" alt=\"Prince William stands in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro\" src=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio.png 449w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-at-the-Christ-the-Redeemer-statue-in-Rio-360x500.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"\/><\/div>\n<p>As Prince George approaches becoming a teenager, he\u2019s had some<br \/>\nother royal changes. At the weekend, he attended the Festival of<br \/>\nRemembrance for the first time, arriving with his mum, the Princess<br \/>\nof Wales.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, he accompanied both his parents to the<br \/>\nreception held at Buckingham Palace for VE Day veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on the 80th anniversary of VE Day, he also had to deal<br \/>\nwith a very regular big brother problem. As he adjusted his hair,<br \/>\nit appeared that his little brother, Prince Louis, made a jokey<br \/>\ngesture of imitation. George did what all big brothers do \u2013 he just<br \/>\nlooked away.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the biggest and most pressing questions the parents of a pre-teen face nowadays and Prince William has revealed that he and the Princess of Wales are currently struggling with it. William and Kate\u2019s eldest son, Prince George, is now 12 and like many of his peers, there\u2019s one thing he really, really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2144455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Prince-of-Wales-lays-a-wreath-at-Remembrance-Sunday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146815,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146814\/revisions\/2146815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}