Royal Family’s secret weapon helps us forget Andrew, Meghan and Harry | Royal | News
As the Royal Family nears the end of their terrifying 2025 year, “Wow! Thank God it’s over!” There will be a few murmurs saying: As every title and honor is peeled away from the shell of scandal that is now ‘Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’, the sweat will have dried from the Firm’s collective brows.
And there would be a happy “sigh” as both Princess Beatrice and Eugenie sensibly shunned their disgraced father at the Royal Lodge in Windsor to spend a Christmas holiday with the rest of the royal family in Norfolk. The princesses took part in the iconic Christmas Day parade from the private estate at Sandringham to St Mary Magdalene church, led by the King and Queen, with the Prince and Princess of Wales nearby.
But this short walk, surrounded by cheers, thrilled royal watchers and the world’s media, while also giving us a glimmer of hope and joy for 2026 and the prospect of better years ahead for the family.
Walking side by side with an entwined William and Catherine were their beaming children Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 10, and seven-year-old Prince Louis, carrying a teddy bear.
Dapper George looked dapper in his navy blue coat and bright white shirt, a look that matched his cheeky little brother; Charlotte, on the other hand, was grinning with her proud mother in a light beige coat dress.
And William and Catherine have real reason to be proud of their trio, because they are as refreshingly natural on the world stage as they are the monarchy’s bright future.
Years before they become ‘working royalty’ – if indeed they all are – it may seem ridiculous to refer to them as adults.
But their presence strengthens the hope that the embattled Royal Family will find happier years on the distant horizon.
Their innocent excitement at meeting the public, their beaming smiles, and their clear ethic of duty and service contrast so sharply with the Sussexes’ image of desperate cash grabs that has sadly leaked out of America’s bucketloads of money.
Before Christmas, when Prince Harry was joking on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert that Americans had “elected their king” in Trump (giggle, laughter!) – Prince George visited the same homeless shelter where Princess Diana had taken Prince William of a similar age.
The impressive 12-year-old looked unimpressed as she donned ‘The Passage’ charity aprons to place Yorkshire puddings on a tray before baking.
In a video posted on the Prince and Princess of Wales’ YouTube account, George was seen chatting to attendees, decorating a Christmas tree and helping to set the table.
All three young Welshmen look cute, sassy, clever and receive love from their parents.
But above all, the trio seems both very humane and humane in the way they show their individual characters under the judgmental gaze of the public and the press.
True, they should be given space to live out their lives as children and continue their schooling, universities and early careers in privacy. And yes, we shouldn’t assume or impose that all three will aspire to the roles of working royalty.
But they could also be the biblical ‘wave of cleansing’ that, over time, could wash away Andrew and Fergie’s lasting stain and erode the millstone of Jeffrey Epstein’s memory, which still weighs heavily on the Royal Family.
