Prince William reveals: “George thinks I’m cool and Charlotte is fashion obsessed!”
The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, who celebrated his 36th birthday on June 21, has shared the sweetest new anecdotes about his two eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
Attending the official handover of the newly built Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) in Nottinghamshire in the UK on his birthday, the proud dad explained that four-year-old George thinks he has a cool dad, after seeing him at work on the building site.
He joked that his “street cred” skyrocketed after his first-born son saw his dad behind the wheel of a digger during construction of the rebab centre in 2017.
“George was very envious as I got to drive a digger… When completed next year, the DNRC will be a world leading centre for rehabilitation. It will provide pioneering treatments,” Prince William said during his official speech about the new centre, which he will be patron of, and will provide rehabilitation facilities for members of the Armed Forces who have suffered injury or trauma during their service.
Although it was William’s birthday on the day of the event, and royals have permission to be excused from attending official engagements on their special day, the kind-hearted prince broke with tradition to attend the unveiling.
Prince Harry has previously revealed that his nephew has a soft spot for anything with wheels.
“I can always hear the wheels of those plastic tractors that George loves playing,” Harry said.
When it comes to 3-year-old Charlotte, Prince William revealed that she is taking after her stylish mother and is obsessed with fashion.
Attending another event on Tuesday earlier in the week in Liverpool, the Duke was gifted a pink satchel for his daughter, which was embossed with her name – with the design of the bag aptly dubbed ‘Mini-Windsor’.
Thanking the makers of the bag, Keith and Gail Hanshaw of Liverpool Echo, Prince William gushed, “Charlotte will be obsessed with that – I’ll never be able to get it off her.”