Prince William has made a point of taking his children to and from Lambrook School in Berkshire every day since his wife the Princess of Wales fell ill.
The extent to which William, 41, has planned his diary around the children’s school pick up and drop off times is something else.
The hands-on dad has been determined to make his family a priority, now more than ever, and is fitting in royal visits and engagements around the school day.
Last week, he visited the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London, where he spoke about his concern about the rise in anti-Semitism. He spent time with Holocaust survivor Renee Salt, holding her hand as she quietly shared her experiences of living in a Nazi concentration camp.
The week before, William again travelled to London to visit the British Red Cross headquarters, where he spoke to aid workers and heard first-hand about their experience of working to help victims of the conflict in Gaza and the Middle East.
Both of these engagements, like many of William’s other scheduled appearances since his return to work in early February, were timed so that the father-of-three could drop off his children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis at Lambrook school first, before carrying out his royal duties.
Speaking exclusively to HELLO! last month, Majesty magazine’s Editor-in-Chief and royal author Ingrid Seward explained how King Charles gave William his blessing to step back from work for a bit, while Kate recovers post-surgery.
The monarch has allowed his son to be the family man he wants to be.
“Charles always put duty first because that’s what his mother did,” Ingrid said on HELLO!’s A Right Royal Podcast. “And that’s what Diana decided she wouldn’t do. I think Charles has encouraged William to spend more time with the family and also said to William, ‘I don’t want you to take on any royal duties until you absolutely have to’ because you remember we criticised William the work-shy?
“And that was his father very much saying, ‘You don’t have to do this, be with your young family. Enjoy it while you can. You’ve got years and years and years of royal duties to do.'”
