Princess Kate and Prince William could be left frustrated by an awkward Royal Family rule around travel, a royal author claimed.
Prince George looks set to be separated from Prince William when using certain forms of transport, as a royal ban will come into place this year.
George, 11, is Prince William and Princess Kate's eldest child and is second in line to the throne.
Prince William is first in the Royal Family's line of succession, and George's younger sister, Princess Charlotte, is third.
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|Princess Kate and Prince William could be left frustrated by an awkward Royal Family rule around travel, a royal author claimed.
There is a royal rule in place that limits which royals can travel together in the same plane, with William travelling on a different plane from Charles once he turned 12 in 1994.
Currently, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte can all travel together, but that may change when George turns 12 on Tuesday.
Royal commentator Robert Jobson told GB News during a 2024 interview: "The fact that the King has raised it before George was 12, I think, is important.
"When you've had a cancer diagnosis like the King has had and the treatment he's had, he's obviously thinking about his own mortality and the future of the monarchy.
"And that involves Prince George very much so, left, right and centre. So I think that it's quite important."
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|Currently, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte can all travel together, but that may change when George turns 12 on Tuesday.
Jobson added that Princess Kate and Prince William could be "frustrated" with the royal rule that George would have to travel separately from his father and potentially his younger siblings.
He said: "I can understand why there was frustration because if you're going to separately get one child to take a different route, it can be quite awkward if you're going on holidays and things like that.
"I'm not so sure that if you're going on a commercial flight or something like that, it would be so necessary.
"But helicopters do tend to be the focus. Mind you, we've had a few billionaires, haven't we, that have crashed in helicopters who must have thought with their wealth and experienced pilots and wonderful helicopters that they were indestructible, but they weren't.
"So I do think that it's just a question of making sure that the monarchy and the line of succession is safe."
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|If the same method is applied, then Prince George will fly in a separate plane to William, the Princess of Wales and his two younger siblings, Charlotte and Louis.
If the same method is applied, then Prince George will fly in a separate plane to William, the Princess of Wales and his two younger siblings, Charlotte and Louis.
However, it may be decided that William is the one to fly on his own, and George travels with his mother and siblings.
Another option is that William travels with either Charlotte or Louis, or both of them, while George travels with Princess Kate.
The rule is in place to help secure the heirs to the throne and it can be broken with the monarch's permission, but it is discouraged since, in the event of a crash, the future of the monarchy would be immediately unstable.
Three royals have previously died in plane crashes, including Prince Philip's sister, Princess Cecilie in 1937, the late Queen's uncle, Prince George, Duke of Kent in 1942 and her cousin, Prince William of Gloucester in 1972.