{"id":554700,"date":"2026-08-01T13:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554700\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:06:15","slug":"princess-kate-and-prince-william-have-1-major-worry-about-prince-george-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554700\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Kate and Prince William have 1 major worry about Prince George | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Catherine and Prince William<\/a> have done everything they can to prepare Prince George for his role in the Royal Family. The young prince is destined to hold a major role in his future as he is second in line to the throne. Prince George is the eldest child of Prince William<\/a> and Princess Catherine<\/a> – and he\u2019s just turned thirteen. There\u2019s a huge change upcoming for Prince George who will be starting at Eton in September.<\/p>\n

Royal editor Rebecca English wrote for the Daily Mail: \u201cThere are parental concerns, naturally, that he will be growing up in a digital age. She adds: \u201cThe couple have refused to allow their children to have mobile phones, although admit that will change with their eldest at senior school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince William<\/a> has said that his children do not have phones, but Prince George may need one when he starts Eton.<\/p>\n

Royal commentator Sarah Hewson told Vanity Fair: \u201cOne thing George won’t be getting [for his thirteenth birthday] is an iPhone.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis parents are very hot on phones, and they won’t allow him on social media. They want to protect him from that for as long as they can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince William<\/a> has said it\u2019s not necessarily phones that he has an issue but \u201cthe internet access I have a problem with,\u201d reports Yahoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He adds: \u201cI think children can access too much stuff they don’t need to see online, and so having a phone and text message, the old sort of ‘brick phone’ as they call them, I think that’s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had long been speculated that Eton could be George’s next school, although a few other schools were said to be in the running, including Princess Catherine’s former school, Marlborough College.<\/p>\n

Eton is also just six miles from the family’s home, Forest Lodge, a factor said to have swayed William<\/a> and Catherine’s decision.<\/p>\n

Much like William, who is said to have enjoyed his time at Eton, Harry also attended the school between 1998 and 2003.<\/p>\n

Compared to his brother, Harry is said to have endured a tougher time at the school and openly spoke about his experiences in his memoir, Spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Catherine and Prince William have done everything they can to prepare Prince George for his role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[272484,156,241710,34971,30378,11292,111,139,69,15305,4289,4290,17823,3164],"class_list":["post-554700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-digital-age-concerns","tag-entertainment","tag-eton","tag-eton-college","tag-mobile-phone","tag-mobile-phones","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}