{"id":574713,"date":"2026-05-09T12:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:43:10","slug":"princess-of-wales-reveals-why-she-let-george-charlotte-and-louis-stay-up-late-as-william-has-bags-under-his-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574713\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess of Wales reveals why she let George, Charlotte and Louis stay up late as William has ‘bags under his eyes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prince and Princess of Wales hosted a Buckingham Palace garden party on Friday, with Prince William confessing to having “bags under the eyes” following a late night celebrating Aston Villa’s football triumph.<\/p>\n

The heir to the throne had attended Villa Park the previous evening to witness his beloved team demolish Nottingham Forest 4-0, securing their place in the Europa League final in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

Catherine revealed that their three children had been permitted to stay up past bedtime to watch the match at home.<\/p>\n

“They all make so much noise, even Louis,” she laughed. “They wanted to go to the match but we let them stay up and watch it.”<\/p>\n

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Catherine revealed that their three children had been permitted to stay up past bedtime to watch the match at home.<\/p>\n

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Prince William also reconnected with Rhian Mannings, a mental health campaigner whom he had visited at her Cardiff home last year, at the Buckingham Palace party.<\/p>\n

Ms Mannings experienced unimaginable tragedy in 2012 when her youngest child, one-year-old George, died suddenly from an undetected illness, followed by her husband Paul taking his own life just five days later.<\/p>\n

Her relationship with Prince William began in 2017 when they participated in a filmed conversation marking World Mental Health Day.<\/p>\n

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The heir to the throne had attended Villa Park the previous evening to witness his beloved team demolish Nottingham Forest 4-0, securing their place in the Europa League final in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

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Ms Mannings informed the Prince of Wales that “so many people reached out” to her following the broadcast of their recent exchange.<\/p>\n

Prince William offered an apology to her daughter for “invading” the family home, remarking: “It was a surprise for everyone I think.”<\/p>\n

The Princess of Wales spoke enthusiastically about her love of padel during conversations with Lawn Tennis Association representatives.<\/p>\n

“Have you adopted padel? I love padel, it’s such a good game, such a great leveller for those who don’t play tennis,” she asked them.<\/p>\n

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The Prince and Princess of Wales hosted a Buckingham Palace garden party on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Catherine acknowledged that tennis remained her true sporting passion but praised padel’s accessibility across generations, noting she enjoys playing with her parents.<\/p>\n

“It’s so sociable and all generations can play,” she said.<\/p>\n

The Princess of Wales also shared details about the family’s one-year-old puppy Otto, admitting he had “unfortunately” been “chewing quite a lot the other day”.<\/p>\n

“You have to keep them busy,” she explained. “The first thing we do in the morning is check, ‘has anyone taken Otto out?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prince and Princess of Wales hosted a Buckingham Palace garden party on Friday, with Prince William confessing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,121,1181,120,122,119,1852,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-prince-george","tag-prince-louis","tag-prince-william","tag-princess-charlotte","tag-princess-of-wales","tag-royal","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}