Things are stirring up for the Wales family. Prince William and Kate Middleton are breaking from tradition yet again, but for good reason.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are skipping the 2025 Easter Service in order to reconnect with their family, which consists of Prince George 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6. The Mirror and HELLO! reported that they wouldn’t attend the service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. Instead, a source told the outlet that the couple are “choosing to spend time together as a family before the children go back to school.”
“This is a big deal,” a source told Us Weekly. “It’s royal tradition for the family to attend this together. Everyone understood the family not attending last year when Kate was sick but there’s been a lot of raised eyebrows at the palace about William’s decision to skip again this year. It feels like a deliberate move and even a snub.”
Last year, both Kate Middleton and King Charles altered their Easter service attendance as they were battling their own cancer battles. Kate announced she’s in remission from her cancer in January 2025.
The news also comes after Prince William made a questionable decision to hire his mother, Princess Diana’s divorce lawyers. ”William wanted to strike out on his own,” a source tells the Daily Mail, who broke this news. “He did not want to continue using his father’s lawyers. It’s as simple as that. He wants to be his own man.”
While there isn’t trouble in paradise for the next King and Queen of the UK, it marked a difference of ruling between father and son. talk of legal circles” and Buckingham Palace thinks it’s “the latest example of his desire to follow a different path from that of his father.” William’s friend told the Daily Mail, saying “William wants to do things differently from his father, and wants to be seen to do them differently.”
