It has been revealed that the royal couple enforce a strict tea time rule – not allowing George, Charlotte and Louis to sit at the dinner table during holidays and official meals.

As members of the royal family, Prince William and Kate Middleton are no strangers to maintaining strict rules. And it has emerged the couple are no different at tea time – indeed, the Prince and Princess of Wales don’t allow their three children to eat with them during official dinners and holidays.

George, 10, Charlotte, eight, and Louis, five, often have to sit separately from their parents at dinnertime, revealed a long-time royal chef. Darren McGrady explained that the youngsters ‘aren’t allowed to sit with the adults until they have learned the art of polite conversation’. Now a YouTube star with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, McGrady spent around 15 years working for Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana and Prince Harry.

“The children always ate in the nursery until they were old enough to conduct themselves properly at the dining table,” he told Harper’s Bazaar. William and Kate are known to take no prisoners when it comes to making sure the kids behave, with an insider recently revealing that they enforce a ‘no shouting’ rule.

The source explained that rather than sending the children to a naughty step, the couple have a ‘chat sofa’. They told The Sun: “Shouting is absolutely ‘off limits’ for the children and any hint of shouting at each other is dealt with by removal.” The naughty child is taken away from the scene of the row or disruption and talked to calmly by either Kate or William. Things are explained and consequences outlined and they never shout at them.”

This comes after it was revealed that Prince William’s eldest son Prince George could be called something completely different when he eventually becomes King. Thanks to an ancient tradition, the young royal could take a different first name when he is crowned monarch.

Bizarrely, he could even even take that of his little brother Prince Louis. The unwritten royal rule could see the future King George pick another name as previous members of the Firm have chosen to be formally sworn in using one of their middle names.