Kate Middleton has been absent from royal duties since giving birth in May and there's just so much speculations making rounds as to why. But for one, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have pleaded for some privacy and Kate has since been focusing on taking care of her family at their Norfolk mansion.
Prince William is "increasingly nervous and worried" for wife Kate Middleton and two kids Prince George, 2, and Princess Charlotte, 4 months, claimed royal insiders according to Independent.ie.
The Duke of Cambridge is concerned that "history might repeat itself" as his family is becoming more susceptible to media intrusion, harassment and surveillance by paparazzi photographers in particular, just like what his late mother Princess Diana had experienced. According to Independent.ie, Prince William firmly believes that his mother's death in 1997 was ultimately because of paparazzi photographers following her.
Last month, the Kensington Palace penned a letter to 24 media industry watchdog bodies worldwide and issued a furious warning over "dangerous and distressing" paparazzi methods. The Telegraph said that the letter revealed paparazzi's desperate tactics to capture photographs of the royal children, particularly Prince George.
Some paparazzi's have been found hiding on private fields and woodlands, obscuring themselves in sand dunes just to capture images of the two-year-old Prince George playing with his grandmother Carole Middleton in their Norfolk home.
Kate and William want to provide the children a harassment- and surveillance-free childhood so that they do not to have to "grow up exclusively behind palace gates and in walled gardens" and will be free to play in public and semi-public spaces with others without being photographed.
Meanwhile, Kate Middleton is returning to the spotlight with the confirmation of her official public engagement in London. The Duchess of Cambridge will visit the Anna Freud Centre, a children's mental health charity, on Sept. 17.
