Princess Lilibet ‘loves’ the same hobby as her royal cousins and Prince Archie’s hilarious school request revealed
Harry and Meghan offered some new insight into how their children are getting on since their return to the UK.
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While the parents still have some things to iron out, it seems that the royal cousins – including Princess Lilibet, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis – have plenty in common.
During their first joint outing since returning to the UK, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited the Community Recording Studio (CRS) in Nottingham, where they spoke with young children who benefit from the facilities.
While speaking there, Meghan revealed that Lilibet ‘loves’ gymnastics – something that Princess Charlotte is known to love and has even influenced her younger brother, Prince Louis, to get in on the action too.
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Visiting the studio, Meghan took part in a confidence-building workshop with the children. She reportedly asked them when they feel most themselves. When someone answered that it was during their favourite hobby, doing gymnastics, Meghan replied, ‘My daughter’s doing gymnastics right now. She loves it.’
Earlier this year, Prince William, Kate and all three of their children enjoyed a family outing at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. It was there that William revealed Princess Charlotte ‘loves gymnastics and ballet’, before the Welsh gymnasts presented her with her very own signed Team Wales leotard.
At this family day out, Kate also shared that Louis has been following his sisters’ footsteps, saying ‘Louis, you’re perfecting your handstand at the moment’.
Louis kept it real with his reply, letting it known that his big sister wasn’t full of praise for his efforts. He replied, ‘But Charlotte says I’m not very good.’
Fortunately, the youngster still has time to perfect his gymnastics, and it seems that Charlotte has maintained her love for the sport for years. At the Commonwealth Games four years earlier, in 2022, Kate first talked about Charlotte picking up the skill.
At the time, Kate joked ‘Charlotte spends most of her time upside-down, doing handstands and cartwheels’.
While Lilibet’s shared love of gymnastics was revealed by Meghan, Harry let slip something Prince Archie isn’t a fan of – and his adorable (and relatable) request.
Harry also spoke with some students and shared that Archie doesn’t like maths – going as far as requesting his parents find him a school in the UK that doesn’t have any maths whatsoever.
Harry reportedly quipped, ‘Most people don’t like math… My son turned around to me and said, ‘Can I go to a school that doesn’t do math?’ I said, ‘That doesn’t exist!’
Alas, not even princes can avoid the school curriculum.
