Prince William's 'dirty' secret weapon for happy marriage to Princess Kate

The Prince and Princess of Wales person been unneurotic for much than 20 years - and present a royal adept has revealed the trait that is 'key' to their blessed marriage

After much than a decennary of marriage, Prince William and Princess Kate couldn't beryllium happier. The mates person weathered a large woody unneurotic - including the heartbreak of Kate's caller crab battle - but determination is 1 happening that keeps their narration firmly connected track, according to an expert.

Christopher Andersen, writer of 'The King', has said it's the couple's playful side that acts arsenic their concealed limb – and it's thing they're passing connected to their 3 children.

He told Fox News Digital: "William erstwhile described Kate's consciousness of humour arsenic 'naughty' and his ain arsenic 'dirty', and claimed that it was 1 of the astir important things that drew them together. They've surely cleaned up their enactment for the children's sake, but they tin inactive marque each different treble implicit laughing."

The writer continued: "William and Kate person besides passed their wacky, slapstick, Monty Python-meets-Benny Hill consciousness of humour connected to the children. And similar each parents of young children, William and Kate find themselves refereeing erstwhile the kids combat implicit the TV remote, oregon erstwhile the inevitable teasing that goes connected betwixt siblings turns into the arsenic inevitable wrestling match."

Another happening the royal mates person successful communal is simply a competitory streak - though it seems Kate takes the crown. During an quality connected The Dog podcast, James Middleton admitted that the aboriginal King had recovered household games nights a spot excessively much.

"The Middletons are rather competitory and they emotion a game, don't they? And past you made mediocre William play, and helium recovered it excessively competitory and really utilized to marque excuses," big Emily Dean noted.

He replied: "It was aft household dinner, we would beryllium sat determination and the cards would travel out, and [he would] possibly spot if Ella needed a locomotion oregon marque an excuse to get down from the table. Racing demon is astir apt the astir fast-paced, competitory 1 that we each play together."

James's beloved canine Ella passed away successful January 2023 and his caller book, Meet Ella: The Dog Who Saved My Life, is focused connected their bond. In James's opinion, Ella was the cleanable "excuse" for Prince William to flight playing cards and the royal really looked guardant to losing truthful helium could spell and "cuddle" her.

"Ella gives [William] a bully excuse to flight the fiercely competitory quality of the Middleton family, which emerges each clip we play our favourite fast-paced paper game, racing demon," James wrote. "William flinches astatine our ruthless determination to triumph astatine each costs. He's delighted to beryllium the archetypal out, and erstwhile nary longer compelled to instrumentality part, helium slinks disconnected to cuddle Ella.

"I deliberation he'd similar to absent himself from the crippled entirely. 'James, does Ella request a walk?’ helium asks earlier we've adjacent started dealing the cards," the Princess of Wales's younger member added. "My sisters and I speech a knowing glance: William, for each the competitory rigour of his subject training, is blessed to beryllium a loser astatine cards."