As evidenced by his Coronation earlier this month, King Charles is keen to steer the royal family in a different direction than maybe it has gone in the past—for example, his ceremony was shorter (about half the time of his mother Queen Elizabeth’s three-hour ceremony), smaller (he hosted 2,300 guests at Westminster Abbey, as opposed to her 8,000), and sooner (his took about eight months to plan—half the time it took to plan hers). But that’s not the only aspect in which the King wants to chart a different future. Namely, when it comes to his grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis—the three children of the Prince and Princess of Wales—he wants them to avoid the mistakes he made, give them as normal of a childhood as possible, and allow them to marry who they want to marry, The Mirror reports.
“I think King Charles is very keen that his grandchildren don’t make the mistakes that I think he feels he made, particularly when it came to matters of the heart,” said royal historian Chandrika Kaul, a professor of modern history at the University of St. Andrews (coincidentally, where William and Kate met and fell in love).
