Kate Middleton following in Prince Charles' footsteps by reading on CBeebies Bedtime Stories

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Kate Middleton has been announced as the latest in a long list of famous faces to read a book on CBeebies Bedtime Stories.This Sunday, the Duchess of Cambridge will read The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark on the children's channel, becoming the first member of the Royal family to do so.

But the 40 year old is not the first member of the Royal family to read a children's story on television, and is actually following in the footsteps of her father-in-law.

Prince Charles, 73, published his own children's book, The Old Man of Lochnagar – which he wrote to raise main for The Prince's Trust – back in 1980 and, four years later, he took to our screens to read it.

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