Dinnertime with the kids can be recipe for trouble, admits Wills
He says what’s on menu sometimes sparks tantrums
WITH the Queen as his grandmother and a team of staff on hand, it is hard to imagine most of us have much in common with Prince William.
But the Royal revealed he and wife Kate share the same trials all parents with small children face at dinner time.
In a chat with a Scottish charity that is providing hot and healthy meals for vulnerable families during the coronavirus pandemic, the future king offered some insight into mealtimes.
He said: ‘If parents put something on [the table] children love, dinner time goes very well.
‘But if you put something on the table they don’t want to do, that’s another ball game.’
William – father to Prince
George, six, Princess Charlotte, five, and one-year-old Prince Louis – had hoped to visit Scotland this week in his new role as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to which he was appointed by the Queen.
Now, with lockdown forcing royal engagements to go digital, he spoke with two Scottish charities which have benefited from grants from the National Emergencies Trust (NET).
The PEEK Project (Possibilities for Each and Every Kid), has cooked 123,000 nutritious meals for families in East Glasgow since lockdown began.
The other, called Finding Your Feet, was founded to provide physical and emotional support to amputees.
William, known as the Earl of Strathearn north of the Border, called each charity over Zoom, praised them as ‘inspirations’ and congratulated each group on helping others at an ‘extremely busy’ time. The NET, of which he is patron, has already distributed £32million raised through its Coronavirus Appeal, helping 5,000 charities.
In a separate call to the charity Lifelines Scotland, which helps emergency responders look after their mental health, the prince – himself an air ambulance rescue pilot – spoke to crew members.
They included Steve Penny, 59, wellbeing officer for Scottish Mountain Rescue.
He said: ‘It is clearly a point of interest to him, to make sure understanding, education and support is available to everybody, not merely the emergency services but volunteer services.
‘He is very keen that volunteers are offered the same support.
‘A couple of years I was facing an element of self-stigma, not wanting to take the help that was there. I happened to listen to something he and Harry did on television. That was enough to make me make the first step.
‘I just thought, he still has that inspiration.’
‘Understanding and support’