It goes without saying that Prince Louis is one of the most endearing little boys, never missing an opportunity to make the world laugh with his funny looks at royal events. Most of his images showing him’misbehaving,’ such as those from his grandfather’s public birthday celebration, where he was shown holding a sneeze, trying not to laugh loudly, or just responding to a terrible scent, amuse the audience.
As the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, his parents ensure that he is handled with care. “Louis is the baby of the family, so William and Kate are gentler with him. “They don’t want to break his little spirit,” a source told OK! Magazine.
“They gently admonish him when he gets out of hand because he’s got to learn,” the source said of George and Charlotte. “William and Kate know the day will come and making faces won’t be ‘cute.’ Hopefully Louis will grow out of it.”
When it comes to parenting, Kate and William do everything they can to give their children a normal childhood, as much as is possible given Prince George’s future as a King.
When it comes to Charlotte and Louis, experts believe they will continue to play royal roles in the future, but Louis will most likely be a ‘private citizen,’ rather than a full-time working royal, similar to his father’s cousins Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, and Zara Tindall, who have frequently participated in larger royal events in recent years but are not considered full-time royals.
“George, Charlotte, and Louis, who had starring roles at the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June [last year], are being raised by their parents with an awareness of their positions and the roles they will one day carry out in support of the monarchy,” royal author and expert Katie Nicholl wrote in her book The New Royals.
Louis currently attends the exclusive Lambrook School, which costs £21,000 a year and offers a variety of activities such as horseback riding and caring for the school’s pigs and poultry.
At Lambrook, if students wish to go on a school excursion, they must raise the funds themselves rather than relying on their parents, which exemplifies a virtue that Kate and William want their children to develop.
“They want George, Charlotte, and Louis to be conscious of their affluent upbringing. “Have an appropriate sense of empathy, charity, and responsibility,” Jennie Bond told OK! Magazine.
However, as much as the people loves Louis, Daniela Elser, a royal specialist, fears this could jeopardize the young Prince’s future.
She used the image of Louis printed on a large flag as an example, which was seen in the audience at Glastonbury, one of the world’s largest music festivals, with approximately 20,000 attendees.
“Put that kid in public, maybe in the vicinity of a military parade or out on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, and the five-year-old will guarantee Fleet Street’s photo editors a cheeky, charming shot,” Elser wrote. “Oh, it’s an adorable image, and you would have to be Cruella de Ville sans Dalmatians not to be thoroughly charmed and delighted by it.
Further, she said she believes that if Louis is continued seen as a funny character, he may easily end up as “another Prince Harry.”
“We owe it to Louis to not make a joke out of him, to not render him a punchline or a cartoonish figure,” Elser explained.
“And if we fail, 30 years from now, it will be him sitting on a couch and pouring out his hurt feelings to Oprah’s hologram.”
William and Kate may reconsider the royal habit of posting images of their children on social media from birth and later.
They should wait until Louis is old enough to determine whether or not to share his images online.
