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I'll tell you exactly what's going on, that the Walesers have decided that they're going to spend the Easter weekend with their family in Norfolk at Amner Hall
0:10
So they're ducking out, if you like, of the traditional Easter service
0:14
Now, last year, they didn't attend Easter service either because Easter came just after the Princess of Wales was diagnosed with cancer
0:23
But they've had the King's permission, so it's not as if it's a snub or anything like that
0:28
It's all above board. And they have recently returned from France where they had a little skiing holiday
0:35
But they wanted to specifically spend the rest of this Easter holiday because the kids go back to school
0:40
I think it's Tuesday or Wednesday. Yeah. So as you say, it's not a snub
0:44
They've just decided to do their own thing, which I guess happens, doesn't it
0:48
It's a big family. They don't all have to be there at the same time. No, they don't
0:52
And as far as I'm being told is that the Walesers will be having an Easter egg hunt
0:58
in the ground somewhere. So it's all devoted to the children, as it should be with Easter in any case
1:07
We see them back at Windsor at some stage I sure The King will have enough members of his family there and then they be going off to the usual lamb lunch at the castle
1:21
So there'll be enough people there. Is there a sense of giving William a little bit of leeway at this point
1:29
when he's still got young children, but knowing that time is running out for him in the sense
1:36
he is sooner rather than later going to be wearing that crown himself
1:41
Yeah, I think there is a bit of a sense of that as well. But let's not also put aside the fact that William is very much his own man
1:50
You know, for years and years and years, we've always complained about, oh, the monarchy needs to be more modern and everything else
1:55
Well, they are now much more modern, as we have seen on a variety of issues that they deal with
2:01
And, you know, William is very much a family man, along with Catherine
2:05
and they devote as much spare time as they have to their children
2:11
And I think that's quite right. I don't think anybody could possibly criticise them for doing that
2:16
They're still key members of the royal family. Whenever they turn up, they are the principals there who do the job
2:25
But I think you're right, Stephen. He gets a bit more leeway than previous people have had
