Prince Louis BLOW: One thing he won't get this birthday which George and Charlotte had
PRINCE LOUIS will celebrate his second birthday during lockdown. Here's how the royal youngster will miss out on one tradition both his siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte had.
Prince Louis photographed to mark his second birthday
Prince Louis will be two-years-old on Thursday (April 23) but social-distancing measures mean his celebrations will be pared back. Little Louis will have to forgo a second birthday tradition both Prince George, six, and Princess Charlotte, four, enjoyed.
Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, 38, and Prince William, 37, are spending lockdown at Anmer Hall in Norfolk with their three children.
Prince Louis will be the second royal to celebrate a special milestone this week after his great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II marked her 94th birthday on April 21.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge usually spend their children’s birthdays among family and Kate is extremely close to her parents Carole, 65, and Michael Middleton, 70.
However, this year the doting grandparents will be unable to attend little Louis’s birthday as lockdown measures keep them apart.
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A birthday party, however intimate, is off the cards for Prince Louis this year which means his second birthday will be distinctly different from both Prince George and Charlotte’s.
Carole Middleton is skilled at organising children’s parties as she runs her own party supplies business and will no doubt be sad to miss Louis’s big day.
However, Kate and Prince William revealed their children had been keeping in touch with grandparents with regular video calls.
Speaking to the BBC’s Tina Daheley via video link, William said: “We’ve been talking to all the family online."
He added: “And it’s been a really good way of keeping in touch and seeing each other. As you can imagine, the younger generation are a little bit more tech savvy, but only just, I think we're getting there now.
“The family are getting a little bit more used to be able to contact each other and pressing the right buttons and not dropping the computer half way through.”
Kate added: “It’s so true. And I think your father and my parents and our families and things like that have really loved keeping in touch with the children because it’s really hard.
“It gets a bit hectic, I am not going to lie, with a two-year-old.”
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While Louis will have to wait until next year to have a proper party he is still likely to get a homemade birthday cake from mum Kate.
Last year the Duchess revealed she loved staying up late and baking birthday cakes for her children.
Kate told TV chef Mary Berry: “I love making the cake
“It’s become a bit of a tradition that I sort of stay up until midnight with ridiculous amounts of cake mix and icing, I make far too much, but I love it.”
Asked how they were finding lockdown with the little ones, Kate revealed she was keeping them to a strict routine and hadn’t let them know it was the Easter holidays.
Kate told the BBC: “Don’t tell the children, we’ve actually kept it going through the holidays.
“I feel very mean! (laughs). The children have got such stamina I don’t know how.
“Honestly, you get to the end of the day and you write down the list of all the things that you've done in that day.
“So you pitch a tent take the tent down again, cook, bake. You get to the end of the day - they have had a lovely time - but it is amazing how much you can cram into one day that's for sure.”