Prince William is making efforts to modernise the Royal Family by making sure his staff were not educated at Eton, a book has claimed.
Since King Charles III’s ascent to the throne, some royals have been making marked efforts to modernise The Firm and bring it into the 21st century.
Prince William, the future king, has been one of those leading these efforts.
The family are said to be wanting to keep in touch with ordinary Brits, who are more consumed with the cost of living crisis, than familial melodrama about who lives in which taxpayer-funded home.
As a part of this, The Times reported in an extract from Valentine Low’s updated version of Courtiers that when the future king was hiring his second private secretary, he checked up on his schooling background.
Once this may have been to ensure he went to Eton - like William - or a similarly expensive private school.
But the Prince of Wales wanted to make sure that he had been educated at a comprehensive school.
This move comes out of a desire to change the reportedly largely posh workforce at Kensington Palace and shake things up.
The book made a number of shocking and damning revelations about the royal family.
This included revealing that Kate Middleton helped lead calls to “toughen” the family’s response to Harry and Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview.
During the interview, the couple famously told the American show host that an unnamed member of the Royal Family had asked the couple what their first child's skin colour would be when born.
The claims later prompted Buckingham Palace to release a statement claiming the issues, "particularly that of race", would be addressed privately.
As a part of the family’s response the statement said “some recollections may vary”.
Whilst the exact wording is believed to have come from a courtier, Kate was said to be clear on her desire to keep it included.
An insider was reported as saying: “They [Kate and William] wanted it toughened up a bit. They were both of one mind that we needed something that said that the institution did not accept a lot of what had been said.”
They added: “It was Kate who clearly made the point, ‘History will judge this statement and unless this phrase or a phrase like it is included, everything that they have said will be taken as true.’”
This was evidence of the Princess of Wales’ understated steeliness, they said, and her desire to “play the long game”.
Prince William had been on the same side during the royal meeting, and had urged senior royal aides to tell the world that his brother and sister-in-law’s statement “does not stand”.
It was claimed that he said: "It is really important that you guys come up with the right way of making sure that we are saying that this does not stand."
