Breaking News: How Kate Middleton “Manages” Her Husband Prince William’s “Tantrums….Read More

The staff jokes that he’s her “fourth child.”

Prince William and Kate Middleton seem more in love than ever—with the recently elevated PDA to prove it!—but that doesn’t mean their marriage is perfect.

Royal author Tom Quinn recently told Fox News that the couple—married for 14 years next month and the parents of three kids—have issues just like the rest of us, and that “Occasionally, William has little tantrums and irritations if things aren’t done the way he wants them done.”

During these “tantrums,” the Prince of Wales becomes akin to Kate’s fourth child (William and Kate are parents to Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis). “Kate is very good at managing that in the same way that she manages the tantrums of their three children,” Quinn said. “And so there’s a joke among the staff that Kate treats William as the fourth [child] because he occasionally behaves like one.”

Per Cosmopolitan, Quinn dives even deeper into this in his new book Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, quoting a royal staffer as saying, “I don’t know where William would be without Kate—she hasn’t had everything done for her throughout her life, so she calms him down when he gets a bit fractious. She says he sometimes has to be treated as her fourth child!”

While Quinn’s book acknowledged that William’s tantrums are “less so now” as he gets older, both William and his father King Charles are “prone to tantrums” if “things are not done to their liking,” per Page Six. A former aide told Quinn that both men “get irritated very quickly” as they’re used to having tasks done for them—and are therefore “very picky.”

People who have everything done for them from childhood tend to be rather spoiled and prone to bouts of irritation because they have no idea how much work is involved in washing and ironing, polishing and sewing when they have never done any of it themselves,” a source speaking to Quinn said in his book.

Per Cosmopolitan, Quinn dives even deeper into this in his new book Yes Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants, quoting a royal staffer as saying, “I don’t know where William would be without Kate—she hasn’t had everything done for her throughout her life, so she calms him down when he gets a bit fractious. She says he sometimes has to be treated as her fourth child!”

While Quinn’s book acknowledged that William’s tantrums are “less so now” as he gets older, both William and his father King Charles are “prone to tantrums” if “things are not done to their liking,” per Page Six. A former aide told Quinn that both men “get irritated very quickly” as they’re used to having tasks done for them—and are therefore “very picky.”

People who have everything done for them from childhood tend to be rather spoiled and prone to bouts of irritation because they have no idea how much work is involved in washing and ironing, polishing and sewing when they have never done any of it themselves,” a source speaking to Quinn said in his book.