Prince William and Kate Middleton are likely to remain in Anmer Hall and resume home schooling for their children after England dived into Lockdown 3.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spent previous periods of confinement at their country house in Norfolk, where they have been staying since Christmas.
Prince George, seven, and Princess Charlotte, five, were due to return to their school, Thomas’ Battersea, on January 6.
However, the latest restrictions on coronavirus across England mean that schools are closed and are not expected to open before the half-time break in mid-February.
The Cambridges are believed to have intended to return to their base in London at Kensington Palace, but now they have no reason to return to the capital, and the law advises against essential travel, Hello! reports.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are likely to remain in Anmer Hall and resume home schooling for their children. Prince George, seven, Prince Louis, two, and Princess Charlotte, five (pictured together in a photo for their 2020 Christmas card)
This means that they are likely to enjoy a discreet family celebration on the Duchess’s 39th birthday on January 9.
William and Kate, both 38, will have to start studying Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte at home again, as they did during the first confinement in March last year.
Previously, they admitted that they found it “challenging” to teach their three children – who, they said, “acquired such resistance”.
The couple even ‘continued’ over the Easter break without telling them, with Kate admitting, ‘I feel really mean. Children have a lot of resistance, I don’t know how.
The Cambridges are believed to have intended to return to their London base at Kensington Palace, but now they have no reason to return to the capital, and the law advises against essential travel. Photographed with their children watching a special pantomime performance at London’s Palladium Theater in December
‘Honestly, you get to the end of the day and you write down a list of all the things you did that day.’
She added: ‘It’s just a little bit of structure, actually. And it’s great, there are so many great tips online and fun activities that you can do with the kids, so it’s not been so heavy. ‘
A source in April said Kate ‘led’ the home education efforts of the two oldest, while organizing playtime for Louis, two, every day, while her husband also ‘rolled up his sleeves’ to help.
They added that the Duke and Duchess found the experience “extremely rewarding”.
In July, William admitted that his patience was tested while studying at home and he struggled to teach math for the second year.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5Live’s That Peter Crouch podcast, which was recorded partly via Zoom and partly at Kensington Palace in March, the heir said: ‘I thought it was really testing, I won’t lie, trying to keep the kids engaged in some kind of work, some interesting months. ‘
He added: ‘I learned through home schooling that my patience is much shorter than I thought, that was probably the biggest revelation for me, and that my wife has superpatience.
“Basically, we are a good team scheduling session, I come with the kids and try to get them to do something and Catherine enters when, frankly, everything goes wrong.
‘I have to admit that I’m a little bit embarrassed about my math knowledge, I can’t do second grade math.’
Prince William revealed that his patience was tested while teaching his children at home in the first confinement, and that he had difficulty teaching math for the second year. He is pictured, on the right, in September 2019 with Princess Charlotte (left), Kate (second on the left) and Prince George (second on the right), while the royal children attended their first day of school of the year
While the Duchess of Cambridge studied mathematics up to level A, William had not pursued the subject since his GCSE at Eton.
Royal expert Victoria Arbiter said the couple saw the blockade as “a rare gift” because royal children are generally “inevitably deprived of the privilege of spending extended time with their parents”.
She commented that the combination of Kate’s focus on early education and Middleton’s’ nurturing presence ‘, together with Prince William’s focus on mental well-being and Windsor traditions, would lead Cambridge children to’ be the best-adjusted generation that royalty has ever known ‘.
Kensington Palace declined to comment on his whereabouts.