Pregnant Kate misses Prince George’s 1st day at school
LONDON — Prince George went to school for the first time Thursday, but it was a rite of passage missed by his mother, who is struggling with acute morning sickness in the early stages of her third pregnancy.
The 4-year-old George was accompanied by his father Prince William, on his first day at Thomas’s Battersea. The two future kings walked to the school entrance hand-in-hand before George was greeted by senior teacher Helen Haslem, who introduced him to the other children.
George’s mother Kate, formally known as the Duchess of Cambridge, was home in Kensington Palace. She is once again stricken with hyperemesis gravidarum, the severe nausea and dehydration that affected her first two pregnancies. Kensington Palace said in a statement she was not well enough to take George to school.
At an event Tuesday, William said Kate is fine but acknowledged some strain: “There’s not much sleep going on at the moment.”