Thanks to her extensive and impressive work in the field of early years development, the Princess of Wales is in the perfect position to practice what she preaches at home with her own children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
As well as this modern approach, Kate has her own family upbringing to look to which is undoubtedly a source of great strength as both she and Prince William juggle their official duties with raising their young family.
It is these normal family experiences which former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond feels will stand Prince George is good stead for his future as a senior working royal, and subsequently as King.
Speaking exclusively to OK!, Jennie explains why Kate is the perfect person to help her eldest son prepare for the daunting task that lies in his future.
Referring to a busy 18 months which involved celebrations for the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee, her sad death, King Charles' accession and the events surrounding his Coronation, Jennie says: "I think the events of the past year will have focused young George’s mind very clearly on his future.
"He was likely aware of his destiny and he had quite a close relationship with his great-grandmother. He had watched her on official duties and stood with her on the Palace balcony as the crowds cheered her.
"She might gently have told him what lay ahead for him and perhaps explained how, when she was a little girl, she had not expected to become Queen. But George was born in direct succession; his destiny has never been in question.
"Nevertheless, both William and Catherine have been keen from the outset to allow their children to live as normal a childhood as possible. Catherine is in a perfect position to show them what 'normal' life looks like.
"Her family form a secure and happy unit away from Palaces and castles, servants and hierarchy. Even Diana couldn’t easily provide that for William as her own parents were divorced and she had been brought up in a stately home.
"So I think Catherine is key to providing a balanced upbringing for a boy born to be King. She has learned what it means to be royal – the restrictions as well as the privileges. And she is the perfect person to help George understand his destiny and, when the time comes, to embrace life as a working royal."
According to the royal biographer Robert Lacey, Prince George would have only been told the news when he was about seven years old.
The author speculated about Prince George's future in an updated version of his book 'Battle of Brothers'. He wrote: "William has not revealed to the world how and when he broke the big news to his son.
"Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself. But sometime around the boy’s seventh birthday in the summer of 2020 it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince’s life of future royal 'service and duty' would particularly involve."
Robert continued that William and Kate wanted to sit George down at a "controlled moment of their choice" at the age of seven. Their decision was said to link to "William’s unhappiness at the haphazard fashion in which the whole business of his royal destiny had buzzed around his head from the start."
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