'We took my 11 year old daughter's smartphone away and her friends smuggled in a burner'

As the royal reveals the conversation around 12-year-old Prince George getting a mobile phone was becoming “tense”, mum-of-three Laura Milne tells The Mirror why she too is standing firm

In an interview earlier this month, Prince William, 43, revealed the conversation around 12-year-old Prince George getting a mobile phone was becoming “tense”. Speaking at the Earthshot Prize in Brazil, he said he and Kate were considering allowing a phone “with no internet access”.

Mum of three Laura Milne’s regrets over giving her eldest daughter, Klara, 16, a smartphone at 11 mean she’s determined her 13-year-old twins Sam and Eva will go without.

“I’m going to hold off as long as I can,” says Laura, 54, who works at London’s Institute of Cancer Research. “If the twins want to arrange to see th