Beyond candid! Duchess Kate and Prince William have opened up about their parenthood journey on multiple occasions — and they never hold back.
In honor of royal baby No. 3’s imminent arrival, scroll through to see the duo’s most memorable quotes about raising kids:
William joked about a then 9-month-old George to New Zealand's governor’s residence hosts in April 2014: “I hope that George doesn't keep you up. He has been known to be particularly vocal at 3 a.m. … I swear I heard him doing the haka this morning."
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The Duchess wrote about raising George and Charlotte to be open about their feelings for the Huffington Post UK in February 2016: “We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older. We know there is no shame in a young child struggling with their emotions or suffering from a mental illness.”
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"Having a daughter is a very different dynamic. So I'm learning … [George is] a right little rascal sometimes. He keeps me on my toes, but he's a sweet boy,” William explained on Vietnamese talk show Talk Vietnam in November 2016.
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“It’s been quite a change for me personally. I’m very lucky in the support I have from Catherine, she’s an amazing mother and a fantastic wife,” William added on Talk Vietnam in November 2016. “I’ve struggled at times. The alteration from being a single, independent man to going into marriage and then having children is life-changing.”
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“My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life. That is why William and I want to teach our little children, George and Charlotte, just how important these things are as they grow up,” the mum explained during a visit to Mitchell Brook Primary School in February 2017. “In my view it is just as important as excelling at maths or sport.”
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“Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience,” Kate said during her speech the Best Beginnings charity’s film launch in March 2017. “However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me, who has support at home that most mothers do not."
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The Duchess of Cambridge emphasized how important it is for people to support mothers during her Best Beginnings speech: “Mothers take on an overwhelming responsibility of caring for their families. Their role is vital in providing unconditional love, care, and support at home, particularly in the early years of a child's development. We therefore should do everything we can to support and value their hard work.”
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“It is lonely at times and you do feel quite isolated,” the Duchess revealed at the Global Academy round table discussion in April 2017. “But actually so many other mothers are going through what you are going through, but it’s being brave enough to actually reach out.”
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“Catherine and I are clear that we want both George and Charlotte to grow up feeling able to talk about their emotions and feelings,” William said during an interview with CALMzine in April 2017. “Over the past year we have visited a number of schools together where we have been amazed listening to children talk about some quite difficult subjects in a clear and emotionally articulate way, something most adults would struggle with."
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“Our third child is due in April, I’m getting as much sleep as I can,” William told guests at the Centrepoint Awards at Kensington Palace in February 2018. “Two is fine — I don’t know how I’m going to cope with three. I’m going to be permanently tired.”
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"I've done that with George and Charlotte – making pizza dough. They love it because they can get their hands messy,” Kate revealed, according to Hello! Magazine, in March 2018.
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The duchess said at a September 2019 engagement that she “can’t believe” how fast her eldest son is growing.
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William noted George’s fixation with tractors during a TV documentary in October 2019. “I should have brought George today,” he told a farmer working in the royal family’s Duchy of Cornwall. “He would be absolutely loving this. … He’s obsessed.”
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In a December 2019 BBC special, Kate revealed to Mary Berry that she cooks with her kids. “I really enjoy it,” she told the former Great British Bake Off judge. “Actually, one of the last things we cooked together was your pizza dough. We made pizzas with your pizza dough recipe. … They loved it. Absolutely loved it.”
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Kate also told Berry about her habit of making cakes for her kids’ birthdays. “It’s become a bit of a tradition that I stay up until midnight with ridiculous amounts of cake mix and icing, and I make far too much,” she said. “But I love it.”
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Kate gushed over her first childbirth on a February 2020 episode of the “Happy Mum, Happy Baby” podcast, saying it was “amazing” to hold George in her arms for the first time. “It is extraordinary, as I’ve said,” she raved. “How can the human body do that? It is utterly extraordinary, actually. … And he was very sweet. And I was also sort of relieved that he was a happy, healthy boy.”
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The Berkshire native revealed on the podcast that she and William practiced using a car seat with a doll before George’s public debut outside St. Mary’s Hospital in London in 2013. “We were like, ‘What do we do [with the baby] in a swaddle? How's this supposed to work?’ We'd even tried to practice with … a little doll at home, but you know, it just never works out the way you planned it, so it was quite hard to do that on the world's stage. But no, [William] did a very good job.”
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“Someone did ask me the other day, what would you want your children to remember about their childhood?” Kate added during the podcast. “And I thought that was a really good question, because actually if you really think about that, is it that I’m sitting down trying to do their math and spelling homework over the weekend? Or is it the fact that we’ve gone out and lit a bonfire and sat around trying to cook sausages that hasn’t worked because it’s too wet? That’s what I would want them to remember, those moments with me as a mother, but also the family going to the beach, getting soaking wet, filling our boots full of water, those are what I would want them to remember. Not a stressful household where you’re trying to do everything and not really succeeding at one thing.”
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The duchess told podcast host Giovanna Fletcher that she “absolutely” struggles with feelings of guilt when she has to leave her children. “And anyone who doesn’t as a mother is actually lying!” she said. “Yep, all the time. You know, even this morning … George and Charlotte were like, ‘Mummy, how could you possibly not be dropping us off at school this morning?’”
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