Kate Middleton put her foot down to spare her children from a bloody tradition, according to a forthcoming book. Tom Quinn’s Yes, Ma’am – The Secret Life of Royal Servants reveals that the Princess of Wales insisted on excusing her three children with Prince William from the “blooding” practice,

Any parent who has ever felt inadequate when comparing themselves to Kate Middleton (those socks, that hair) can take comfort, perhaps, in the fact that her kids’ art projects are refreshingly mi. Kate and William posted three examples of their children’s recent scribblings on their official Instagram account to publicize Kate’s ongoing advocacy for early childhood care,

In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry wrote about his own experience of the "blooding" tradition. When he was just 15, Prince Harry was taken hunting in Balmoral by