The Princess of Wales has given an insight into how her sons are coping following the death of their great-grandmother, the Queen.
Speaking to Australia’s Governor-General, David Hurley, at a reception held for Commonwealth dignitaries on Sunday, Kate Middleton admitted that the young members of the royal family have been greatly affected by their loss.
Recalling his conversation with Prince Williams’ wife, Mr Hurley said she told him Prince George, nine, is “sort of now realising how important his great-grandmother was and what is going on”.
Things were proving quite tricky for youngest son, Prince Louis, four, however, who is asking a lot of questions and struggling to understand.
Some of these questions include whether the family’s traditional summertime visit to Balmoral Castle in Scotland will still be as he remembers them.
“The younger one is now asking questions like, ‘do you think we can still play these games when we go to Balmoral’ and things like that, because she’s not going to be there?” Hurley explained.
The mum-of-three previously told a well-wisher that daughter Princess Charlotte, eight, understood the Queen’s death “less so” than her elder brother.
George and Charlotte, eight, will make a surprise appearance at their great-grandmother’s funeral today, walking behind her coffin into Westminster Abbey.
Due to his age, Prince Louis will not attend.
A source told MailOnline: “As parents they have, of course, thought long and hard about whether their children should accompany them.
“Of course little Louis is too young, but they think George and Charlotte are up to it.”
George and Charlotte will travel by car to the Abbey with Kate and Queen Consort, Camilla, before joining the foot procession as it enters.
The two children are also expected to be in the congregation for the committal service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor this afternoon.
