Mom Kate Middleton teaches: the era of compound children is over

The next time they look at you wrong on the plane because the generally very quiet children are prey to the whim of the century and scream desperately in general blame (“Do something”, they say after a while the looks of everyone, from the stewardess to the most benevolent passengers ), you can remind the intolerant of little prince Louis and his creative baby dance at the great-grandmother’s Jubilee.

Until the weekend of the 70th Louis was the most secluded of the English royalty, the least photographed since the time of Queen Victoria, and more mysterious than his ancestor Henry VIII, of which very few portraits exist. But in a few hours he made a great recovery. For four years he had hardly seen himself, carefully kept away from official events where the greatest and most reliable brothers appear, the flawless George with his wrinkled nose and the perfect Charlotte, increasingly resembling great-grandmother Elizabeth. Even the two of them in the busy four days of their great-grandmother’s birthday have never stopped keeping an eye on their unleashed brother.

At the moment he is the most famous child in the world, but we have already talked about his already cult memes, the real novelty is his mother, who in a few scenes has recovered in humanity years of perfection, of starched shirts, of perfectly designed looks combined for the whole family, the father’s sock the same as his son’s sweater, pastoral and composed photos stroking the trees in Kensington without a hair out of place even when leaving the delivery room. But no, she’s almost one of us, and sometimes she doesn’t know what to do with her son who gets bored, gets agitated, covers her mouth with his hands to silence her and fills her with small slaps, jumps up on the chair to see better, stick out your tongue and let out a long cry of annoyance on the balcony in true style Mom I missed the plane.

So even the children of a future queen can be ungovernable. There are no nannies selected from among a thousand in Switzerland that they keep, there are no secret recipes, it is useless to send them to Eton or Oxford. If it turns bad, they go crazy. Sigh of relief.

Of course, at the age of 4, the Platinum Jubilee Marathon may not be a pizza with friends, but the little one took it straight from the moment he arrived in the carriage.. And the same sailor jacket that his father, much more disciplined than him, wore at the baptism of his little brother Harry (of which Louis is the true heir: his tongue in the arms of mother Diana has remained epic) did not even serve.

Yet between the exhausted and the agitated, the uncontrollable son has transformed Kate Middleton from a figure too regal, fascinating, perennially smiling but a little cold and too close to perfection to have our solidarity, in a mother like all others, taken to handle an out of control child in a public situation without losing the smile.

Who hasn’t happened to? Even Kate, careful to limit the damage of worldwide antics without falling into nervousness, has discreetly called every available relative to help. with eloquent looks, as we would. Great-grandmother Elisabetta was the first, with her impassive air behind her lipstick without even turning her gaze on the millions of subjects between the square and the TV, entertained him discreetly (who knows what she must have told him?). But most of all the grandfather Carlo, who in the moment of maximum crisis, when Louis jumped on his chair to imitate all the animals he saw passing in the parade, was called in a loud voice (so to speak, a nod) from his son William – the least able in this case to stem the son, it must be said – who sent the baby in the arms of his grandfather, who literally plated him with both arms encouraged by Camilla who, however, fearful, kept at a safe distance by merely smiling a little.

A few minutes and the spell was broken, he went back to his mother to roll around in his chair, but it was enough to humanize Carlo too, certainly not the hottest of the Royals as for effusions. Who knows if he will have thought back to that day of the coronation, when at the same age as Louis he sat for hours with a very sad air under the stern gazes of his grandmother and aunt while his mother was crowned and nobody (without even being able to drink a glass of water) , the chronicles of the time recall).

Looking at the photo, his composed melancholy still makes tenderness 70 years later. But Kate didn’t make this mistake and England’s most experienced nannies approved. Even the television Supernanny Jo Frost approved and praised the reaction of the Duchess and her way of being heard by her son (at least for a few seconds) without reproaching him with authority but speaking decisively. She “she needed to be heard, and in public.” It seems to us that Louis has listened to practically nothing, but when he got tired of being unmanageable, probably exhausted, he hugged his mother tightly, in a way the Windsors had never shown him before. Will they bring him back around soon? The conquered British hope so, for sure his parents will be prepared: the era of composed children is over. God Save the Queen.

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