SCHOOL'S NOT OUT
Kate Middleton ‘guilty’ about the homeschool lie she told Prince George and Princess Charlotte over the Easter holidays
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KATE Middleton has admitted that she and Prince William lied to their three kids and kept homeschooling them through their Easter break.
The Duchess of Cambridge, 38, spoke to about how they have faced “ups and downs” during the coronavirus lockdown “like lots of families”.
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The mum-of-three said she “felt guilty” about lying to Prince George, six, Princess Charlotte, four, and Prince Louis, who is two next week, while most UK kids had two weeks off school.
Kate said: “We don't tell the children we've actually kept going through the holidays. I feel very mean.”
Prince William, 37, described homeschooling as “fun”, but Kate added it was “challenging”, during the call with BBC Breakfast today.
The royal couple also revealed they have been keeping in touch with other members of the family via video calls.
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Kate said: "It gets a bit hectic, I'm not going to lie, with a two-year-old you have to take the phone away.
"It's quite hectic for them all to say the right thing at the right time without pressing the wrong buttons.
“But it's great and it's nice to keep in touch with everybody."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were speaking to the BBC ahead of a new video which highlights pandemic mental health advice on the Every Mind Matters website.
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William revealed his worries for his dad, Prince Charles, after he caught coronavirus, saying: "And actually he was very lucky he had mild symptoms and I got a lot of good reassurance from doctors and friends of mine who said 'listen, the days he's on when we found out about it, he's probably passed the worst of it'.
"And obviously speaking to him made me feel more reassured that he was OK, but again at that age you do worry a bit more."
On his grandparents, The Queen, 93, and Prince Philip, 98, he added: "And obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents - who are the age they're at, we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this."
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William and Kate also announced the launch of a £5million scheme to help UK’s mental health charities during lockdown.
Today, the couple told the nation "we're in this together" in a powerful mental health videon on Instagram.
William and Kate said it's normal to '"feel frustrated, miss loved ones and get anxious" as the world battles the pandemic.
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Speaking to BBC's Tina Daheley about the importance of the initiative, the Duke said: "Frontline workers are used to dealing sadly with very sad situations, death and things like that but I think the scale and the speed of what’s going on in hospitals, bearing in mind also the isolation, a lot of these patients are dying with no family members around them.
"I think for the NHS frontline workers that is very difficult, because they are there right next to the bedsides, looking after and caring for each and every patient in a critical condition.
"I think they take away that pain and that sometimes that fear and loneliness that these patients have to go through, they’re the ones who absorb that and take it home to their families.
"I’ve spoken about the attrition and the daily attrition rate of that happening to somebody is not normal.
"We’re not super human any of us, so to be able to manage those emotions and that feeling is going to take some time after all this is over as well."
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The couple also praised Captain Tom Moore, who has raised more than £18million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sent a video to the World War Two hero, and donated an undisclosed fee to his fundraiser.
Prince William called him a "legend" and said: "It's incredible, it's amazing. What I love also is that he is a 99-year-old war veteran.
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"He's been around a long time, he knows everything and it's wonderful that everyone has been inspired by his story and his determination.
"I think he's a one man fundraising machine - good on him, I hope it keeps going."
Tom laughed after watching the clip and said: "I think it's absolutely amazing, that my super Prince could say something like that."
The man who has touched the heart of the nation completed 100 laps of his garden on a walking frame, then vowed to carry on as donations continued to pour in.
Prince William also hinted at a knighthood for Captain Moore, saying: “The Prime Minister will be looking at ways to recognise Tom and his efforts.”
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