Kate Middleton 'snubbed historic royal invitation' that broke tradition with firm stance

Kate Middleton is present Princess of Wales and a guaranteed fixture astatine astir large royal events - but earlier she joined Prince William her attendance wasn't ever certain, and according to a book, she erstwhile adjacent rejected an invitation from the precocious Queen

As Princess of Wales, Kate is beauteous overmuch a imperishable fixture astatine each large lawsuit successful her relation arsenic 1 of the astir elder royals. But earlier her 2011 wedding, contented often dictated that earlier being joined into the royal family, attending household ocassions specified arsenic Christmas and Easter was disconnected the cards. In fact, Kate didn't articulation an authoritative royal Christmas solemnisation with William and the remainder of his household until December 2011 - the Christmas aft her wedding erstwhile she was archetypal Duchess of Cambridge.

However, erstwhile it came to her sister-in-law Meghan Markle respective years later, she was allowed to articulation royal Christmas with Prince Harry - contempt the brace not being joined - leaving radical asking wherefore the aforesaid connection hadn't been extended to Kate. But according to a book, the precocious Queen did really invitation the princess to a festive lawsuit anterior to her engagement to Prince William, but she turned it down.

In his biography Battle of Brothers, Robert Lacey claims the monarch broke from contented and extended her archetypal invitation to an unregistered spouse for the family's accepted Christmas luncheon successful 2006. But Kate, who was 24 astatine the time, is reported to person declined the historical request. In his book, helium writes that Kate "would spell to Sandringham connected Christmas Day lone erstwhile she was engaged".

He explains: "By 2006, the mates had been dating earnestly for the champion portion of 5 years. Yet erstwhile William invited Kate to articulation him that twelvemonth astatine Sandringham for the Royal Family's accepted Christmas lunch, she refused. It was the archetypal clip the Queen had extended specified an invitation to an unregistered 'girlfriend', but Kate had her ain instrumentality connected that interruption with tradition: she would spell to Sandringham connected Christmas Day lone erstwhile she was engaged and had a ringing to beryllium it."

However, contempt present being a fully-fledged royal for astir 12 years, there is simply a large engagement Kate is acceptable to miss adjacent period - William's 3rd yearly Earthshot Prize awards successful Singapore. Many thought Kate would decidedly beryllium travelling to Asia for the yearly lawsuit but the Mirror revealed she would not beryllium attending, with royal sources aboriginal saying she decided to enactment astatine home to enactment Prince George, who has schoolhouse exams that week.

Kensington Palace has refused to remark connected what exams aboriginal king George, 10, volition beryllium taking. However, the preliminary entranceway exams for Eton College, known arsenic ISEBs, hap astatine that clip arsenic the Earthshot Prize during the archetypal week of November. Several different elite backstage schools besides usage the exams.

George has been spotted visiting Eton, which his begetter William and uncle Prince Harry some attended and is wide expected to be the school. He is presently a pupil astatine Lambrook Primary School, on with his younger siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Lambrook, however, lone teaches students until property 13.

The Prince and Princess of Wales were spotted successful June touring the field with their eldest son. It's imaginable that successful 3 years, the young prince volition be the all-boys school, which is located adjacent Windsor Castle, wherever the household present unrecorded aft leaving Kensington Palace.