Kate’s Easter: Garden games, egg hunts & Sunday roast
With none of us set to leave home this weekend, how will our future king and queen be celebrating?
What a difference a year makes. Last year, Kate and William headed to Windsor Castle’s chapel on Easter Sunday – marking the holiday and helping to celebrate the Queen’s 93rd birthday. Kate, radiant in duck egg blue, curtsied to her grandmother-in-law, before the family group – which included Prince Harry, Princess Anne, and Zara and Mike Tindall – headed off to celebrate the holiday.
This year, the Bank Holiday weekend will be very different.
Kate and William are in isolation at Anmer Hall, their country home next to the Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk.
If you must self-isolate, though, there are certainly worst places than a 10-bedroom mansion, with extensive grounds and Kate has spoken often about her passion for getting children out into the outdoors.
George, six, Charlotte, four, and nearly two-year-old Louis – plus, doubtlessly, the family dog Lupo – will now be relishing their freedom in the spacious gardens.
‘Climbing frames, a climbing wall and swings are a big part of the Cambridge outdoors activity scene, and Kate will do pond-dipping and notetaking to log what they have spotted,’ an insider revealed.
‘Birdwatching with binoculars is another favourite of the kids.’
Anmer is close to the glorious beaches of Holkham and Sandringham, but it is likely that the family, leading the charge to keep morale up during this crisis, will follow official advice, and stay at home.
Having seen their performance on a Christmas cooking show, where they made roulade with Mary Berry, we know that Kate and Wills are not bad in the kitchen.
William is said to be ‘very good at breakfast’ according to his wife – so perhaps he will whip up a full English, before the family indulge in a traditional Sunday roast. Perhaps a prime leg of Norfolk lamb and homegrown vegetables, followed by an egg hunt in the garden.
Easter is a time for family, and while, of course, the Cambridges won’t be able to physically visit any of their relatives they will surely call or video-chat with Kate’s parents Mike and Carole (normally hands-on grandparents), as well as Kate’s siblings, Pippa and James.
Thankfully, Prince Charles is said to be recovering well from the virus, but he will remain at Balmoral with Camilla, who tested negative, while the Queen is isolating at Windsor Castle, with the 98-year-old Duke of Edinburgh.
Sadly, of course, the chances that Uncle Harry, now in LA with Meghan and Archie, will be calling for a Zoom chat seem more unlikely than ever….
‘Birdwatching with binoculars is a favourite hobby of the kids’