Prince William has made a rare comment on what his childhood was like with divorced parents, revealing that he’s trying not to parent his own children in the same way.
During the Oct. 3 episode of Eugene Levy’s series The Reluctant Traveler, the Prince of Wales admitted that his desire for his three children—Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and Prince Louis, 7, whom he shares with his wife Kate Middleton—to have a relatively normal home life stemmed from his own childhood experiences.
“I think it’s really important that that atmosphere is created at home,” he said. “You have to have that warmth, that feeling of safety, security, love.”
He explained that he got to experience that atmosphere in his own childhood; however, it didn’t last long.
“My parents got divorced at 8, so t