The Year 6 pupil at Lambrook School plays the piano and co-starred with Kate in a special duet on ITV’s Royal Carol: Together for Christmas. She is also very athletic, just like her mother, and has shown interests in soccer, horses, swimming, gymnastics, netball, ballet, and tap.
“Charlotte wanted me to say that she’s really good at scoring goals,” William told the Lionesses, also known as the women’s national football team, who visited her for a training session at St George’s Park in Burton upon Trent in 2022. “She said, ‘Tell them that.’ She’s a rising star of the future.”
Most recently, the prince told The Reluctant Traveler that Charlotte and Louis also loved trying to beat each other on trampolines, quipping: “Apparently there’s an art to that.”
As the only daughter of Duchess Kate and Prince William, there will always be a lot of interest in what Charlotte is up to, and everything from her fashion (the ‘Charlotte effect’ is already generating huge profits for Britain’s retail economy) to her education and extra-curricular activities to the mate she ultimately chooses will be redone once (and then twice, and then thrice).
But the possibilities are endless, especially considering she has modernity on her side. As the first girl in a prestigious family to take over as successor in place of her younger brother, she is free to decide her role as backup successor.
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