Prince William’s sweet 6-word about Princess Catherine
William paid tribute to his beloved wife after her successful solo trip to Italy.
Prince William has made a moving six-word tribute to his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, by saying “our family couldn’t cope without her”. William, 43, gushed about the Princess of Wales, 44, during a trip to the Isles of Scilly this week where he said his wife had been “buzzing” about her own solo trip to Italy this month.
The Prince of Wales was visiting the island chain off the southeastern tip of Cornwall following his own trip to Istanbul, Turkey, where he watched his beloved Aston Villa triumph in the Europa Cup Final. Princess Catherine also enjoyed her own foreign trip in May when she toured the Reggio Emilia region of northern Italy to support her campaign for child education.
William discussed Kate’s first official foreign tour in more than three years during an appearance on Heart radio’s breakfast show, which had relocated to the Scilly Isles especially for this visit. amie Theakston and Amanda Holden.
He told presenters Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden that his wife is “edging herself back” into doing more overseas visits following her successful cancer treatment, but cautioned royal trips take their toll, so they have to “make sure she’s OK and rested”.
He added: “She’s an amazing mum and an amazing wife and literally our family couldn’t cope without her, so she’s been absolutely stunning, really has.”
William appeared live on the breakfast show on Friday. It was broadcast from a cafe in St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly where the prince will later visit the Isles of Scilly Hospital to meet staff, patients and open a new facility which has increased medical capacity to the isles.
In a wide-ranging interview, the prince joked about doing the school run, his love of dance music and how he still follows his late grandmother the Queen’s rule for making scones – cream first then jam.
And he joked about receiving an invitation to the highly anticipated summer wedding of Taylor Swift and her American football partner Travis Kelce at first saying “no comment” and laughing.
William, who took his two eldest children to a Swift concert last year and introduced them to the singer backstage, said: “That feels like a showbiz excuse but it’s not. I’m hoping and I’m sure there might be an invitation around, but we’ll see.”
Asked if he is proud of Catherine’s successful visit to Italy, William replied: “So proud, very, very proud. She’s been amazing.
“She’s been through so much in the last couple of years, particularly. She’d been looking forward to the Italian trip a lot, and so I’m really glad it went really well.”
Princess Catherine received a rapturous welcome from the people of the Italian city of Reggio Emilia where she learnt about an innovative approach to teaching young children pioneered in the city.
William added: “She wanted to go and do lots of research, she spends God knows how much time now looking through all the paperwork.
“She’s a proper pro on early years, and so most evenings I’m fighting to get past in the bedroom… all the paperwork that she’s got lined up ready to read.
“I’m so pleased it went well for her, and yeah I think she came back buzzing.”
An aide to the princess last week described the trip as a “huge moment” for Catherine, who has experienced a cancer diagnosis and success treatment since she travelled to America more than three years ago.
The royal couple’s last major lengthy tour together was their controversial trip to the Caribbean in March 2022 to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, before they spent three days in Boston in December 2022 for the prince’s Earthshot Prize ceremony.
When the suggestion was made that Kate wants to do more overseas visits, William told the breakfast show: “Yes, I think so. It’s kind of, just sort of edging herself back into doing more and more of those trips.
“Away trips like that take a lot out of you because you’re on sort of permanent receive and send the whole time, and so we have to balance that, make sure she’s OK and rested, but yeah, she’s in good form.”
William joked with Theakston and Holden about Catherine speaking Italian during her trip saying he did not realise she spoke the language and joked “she must have dusted that off a while ago”.
The prince began his appearance by confessing he was not a morning person and how at this time he would be doing the school run with Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte, but revealed Prince George was boarding at Lambrook, the private school the three children all attend near Ascot in Berkshire.
Louis liked to take jam sandwiches in the car. “He’ll leave jam fingerprints throughout the car which is really helpful,” his father William added.
William helped pick the breakfast show’s playlist and his choices included Taylor Swift, a favourite artist of Charlotte and Louis, and her track Opalite, and Raye’s chart-topping single Where Is My Husband.
