William and his wife, Kate, have taken responsibil-
ity for shoring up the family brand with a highly
successful tour of Pakistan and a recent joint tele-
vision appearance on a Christmas special hosted
by British television personality Mary Berry. “Wil-
liam and Kate along with their adorable children
are the greatest assets the monarchy has right now,”
another palace insider told Newsweek. “There’s no
drama, they’re both charming, and their children
are darling and well behaved. That’s what the pub-
lic wants from the royals—a happy family scenario
that makes people feel good about the future.”
Perhaps that’s why the queen decided it was time
for the couple’s two oldest children, Prince George, 6,
and Princess Charlotte, 4, to make their first public
appearance with the family on the traditional and
much-photographed walk from the family estate
at Sandringham to St. Mary Magdalene Church on
Christmas morning this year. “The queen wanted the
emphasis to be on the next generation of royals this
Christmas and remind people that through it all, the
monarchy will survive,” the insider said.
Lacey believes it will. “I am quite sure that prince
George will become king one day,” he said. “The
‘de-royaling’ of Andrew was a tragedy, but it is a re-
minder of how the survival of a constitutional mon-
archy depends on its respect and compliance with
the values of the society it seeks to represent.”
Ơ Diane Clehane, who has been covering royalty for
more than 20 years, is a best-selling author of five books,
including diana: the secrets of her style and imagin-
ing diana, a novel that envisions what would have hap-
pened if the princess had survived the 1997 crash in Paris.
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