Princess Charlotte ‘will have the freedom to grow up as she likes’, says expert

2023-04-27

As third-in-line to the throne, Princess Charlotte will always play a key role in public life, regardless of the fact that she is a 'Spare' to her elder brother.

While this is the case, former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond exclusively explained to OK! why the Prince and Princess of Wales' daughter will have a greater deal of freedom as she grows up.

"I don't believe The Princess Royal, for example, has ever felt like a spare to her elder brother. Of course, with primogeniture [the rule that any younger brother leapfrogs his elder sister to a title or inheritance] she never was strictly the immediate spare after her two younger brothers were born but I hope Charlotte will not feel like the spare and that she will find her her role and get on with it in the way that Princess Anne has.

"It's important to remember, however, that Anne was a little bit different in that she went to boarding school because her parents were so busy so she didn't want to go to university.

"She doesn't regret it but she saw no point in going to university when she knew what her role was and she just wanted to get on with the job.

"I would suggest that Charlotte will much more likely follow in her parents' footsteps, which is to go to university, have a bit of space and freedom and liberty to grow up and think about what you want to do."

Royal expert Camilla Tominey has also echoed this idea that Prince William and Catherine will be working to “normalise” the lives of their two youngest children with the hope that they never feel like working as members of the Royal Family is their only option.

Ms Tominey claimed that the couple will want Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis to "have their own careers" if they want to and won’t want their youngest to "go down the Duke of York path" and become a "royal hanger-on".

The expert added: "In the next decade, everything is going to change. "We might be seeing fewer royals in the future than we're used to. A lot of the more minor royals have got careers of their own so they aren't really being taxpayer-funded. And in conjunction with the fact there are going to be fewer royals is a recalibration of what it means to be a royal.”

The Princess Royal's hard work and the unfailing support she has given her elder brother through the years will officially be recognised as she has been handed a key role in the Coronation on May 6.

Princess Anne will be in the procession as the prestigious "Gold-Stick-in-Waiting", a position historically handed to a person entrusted with the personal safety of the sovereign.

As a “personal aide-de-camp” to her brother, Anne will travel on horseback behind the newly crowned King and Queen after the service at Westminster Abbey on May 6.

While Charles and Camilla will ride in the traditional Gold State Coach back to Buckingham Palace, Anne will lead the larger procession featuring 6,000 armed services personnel.

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