Kate Middleton treats Prince William like ‘a fourth child’ and manages his tantrums: author

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his mother, Princess Diana, died when he was 15, which is enormous in itself. Everyone could understand that that was very damaging to him. “But before that, the split between his parents was very public.

All the unpleasantness between his parents was played out on the world stage. Meanwhile, he was looked after by paid staff.”“For much of that time, it created an adult in William who was very needy,” Quinn claimed. “He loved spending time with Kate’s family because, unlike his, they were very warm, very close with each other, very emotionally aware. “When Kate and William first got together, William tended to have tantrums if things didn’t go his way because he was still this emotionally needy child who grew up into an emotionally needy adult.”As far as those alleged temper tantrums, they’re “less so now,” Quinn claimed, thanks to Kate.And it was through the Princess of Wales that William reportedly got to witness the importance of being a hands-on parent.

According to Quinn’s book, Kate “vowed to cut out as many, if not all, the jobs traditionally associated with the nursery.” She wanted her children to have a close connection with their parents despite their royal titles, not paid caregivers.“Despite the disapproval of many of the palace old guard, she has spent what many royal insiders see as a shocking amount of time doing the normal childcare tasks that in the past were farmed out to paid staff,” Quinn wrote.