Princess Charlotte Has ‘Grown up So Much’ and Is ‘So Proud’ ​to Be Kate Middleton’s Daughter

Princess Charlotte’s large grin said it all. As Princess Kate to person these unthinkable intends to beryllium successful this family, descended nan stairs wrong London’s All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club to watch nan Wimbledon men’s final connected July 14 — marking her 2nd nationalist quality since revealing successful March that she’s being treated for crab — spectators, including Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts, erupted successful cheers and applause and leapt to their feet. Charlotte took successful nan opinionated ovation from her spot successful nan royal container astatine Centre Court, gazing up astatine her mother adoringly.

“It’s clear Charlotte feels truthful proud to beryllium Kate’s daughter,” a royals root exclusively tells Life & Style. “And she loves doing typical things pinch her mom, for illustration attending Wimbledon. She really seems to understand really fortunate she is to person these unthinkable experiences.”

That’s each acknowledgment to her parents. While nan Prince and Princess of Wales, some 42, are raising Charlotte, 9, and brothers Prince George, 11, and Prince Louis, 6, arsenic heirs to Britain’s throne, they’re besides trying to guarantee that nan kids’ childhoods are arsenic grounded arsenic they are magical. “Charlotte, successful particular, has grown up truthful overmuch complete nan past year,” says nan source. From her interactions pinch family members and nan nationalist to really she carries herself, “you tin really spot conscionable really poised she is,” adds nan source. “She shows a maturity beyond her years. It’s go much evident that she understands her domiciled and what it intends to beryllium successful this family, but she’s besides still capable to beryllium a kid.”

Charlotte Is In Charge

She’s thriving, some astatine schoolhouse — each 3 Wales children be nan $30,000-a-year coed Lambrook School, adjacent their location connected nan Windsor Castle property — and astatine home. “Charlotte rules nan roost pinch her brothers, which has been clear since she was little,” says nan source. (In nan past, Kate has admitted that Charlotte “is nan 1 successful charge.”) While George often seeks retired her opinion, says nan source, she’ll springiness it to Louis unsolicited, arsenic nan nationalist has seen erstwhile she observes him misbehaving astatine royal events. “As nan mediate child, she’s nan glue,” says nan source. “She helps Kate retired by keeping nan boys successful check.”

But Charlotte knows really to fto loose, too. Recently, nan joke-loving kid was spotted dancing her bosom retired astatine Taylor Swift’s June 21 performance successful London. She “had a occurrence to her,” Jason Kelce, 36, gushed connected nan June 26 section of nan “New Heights” podcast he cohosts pinch relative Travis Kelce, 34, aft gathering nan princess pinch George and William backstage. The “adorable” 9-year-old “was asking questions,” Jason recalled, and felt assured capable “to return a lead successful nan conversation.” Travis, meanwhile, dubbed Charlotte a “superstar.”

Charlotte Takes After Her Mom

She has a awesome domiciled model. “While Charlotte looks for illustration Prince William,” notes nan source, “she really is simply a mini Kate.” Like her mother, “she loves nan outdoors, dogs” — they’re devoted to their achromatic spaniel, Orla — arsenic good arsenic “photography and fashion,” says nan source. “She moreover shops for herself!”

And for illustration her mother, Charlotte has a passion for sports. “[Kate] regularly plays rugby successful nan backmost plot pinch nan children — she plays each sports pinch them,” Nigel Gillingham, president of nan Rugby Football Union, of which Kate is patron, revealed successful 2023. He noted that Charlotte, especially, takes aft her “very competitive” mom.

William has described Charlotte arsenic a “budding star” successful shot (at home, she roots for nan Lionesses, England’s women’s shot team), but aft watching a swimming title astatine nan 2022 Commonwealth Games, nan young princess told Tim Lawler, SportsAid’s main executive, “It’s gymnastics that I like.” (Kate past reportedly confirmed that “Charlotte spends astir of her clip upside down, doing handstands and cartwheels.”) And while chatting pinch a fewer female tennis players astatine Wimbledon, Kate proudly shared that Charlotte enjoys nan crippled and was conscionable “practicing yesterday.” The Princess of Wales, an insider antecedently told Life & Style, “sees a batch of herself successful Charlotte, who ne'er sits connected nan sidelines. She ever wants to jump correct in.”

As a baby, Charlotte was “very easy,” William has said. “But each nan fathers say, ‘Just you wait, erstwhile you get to 9, [10] aliases 11, they get crazy.’ I’m looking guardant to it. There will beryllium immoderate drama.”

So far, truthful good. “Maybe it’s because she’s wise beyond her years, but Charlotte loves spending clip pinch her parents,” says nan source. “She’s still astatine nan property wherever she thinks her mom is really cool. Kate plans to bask that for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.”