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Emma Shacklock

Prince William's 'almighty' telling-off by Queen Elizabeth shows she wasn't afraid to scold her family members

A composite of a picture of Queen Elizabeth in 2017 and Prince William in 2025.

We probably all have at least one memory of being told off by our grandparents and the royals are no different. Prince William had a close bond with his "Granny" Queen Elizabeth, but as the family matriarch she stepped in when scolding was necessary.

One childhood incident "stuck in" the Prince of Wales’s mind so much that he ended up recalling it on Sky News’s Our Queen at Ninety documentary in 2016. He and his cousin Peter Phillips had been chasing Zara around at Balmoral and when things got a little out of hand, the late Queen Elizabeth was the "first" to reprimand her grandsons.

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