WILLIAM AND KATE - Under PRESSURE

Hectic schedules, another house move and the want for another baby-what's going to give? Royal expert Duncan Larcombe on the pair's new challenges

- Duncan Larcombe

Everything seemed to be going so well inside the Cambridge clan.

The family had moved to be closer to the Queen, the kids were finally going to the same school and they had safely escaped the goldfish bowl of Kensington Palace.

In September, when the family moved into Adelaide Cottage, William and Kate still found time to make a home, to paint the bedrooms and unbox the family’s belongings. The new pad in Windsor may have been modest by royal standards, but it meant that George, Charlotte and Louis were no longer playing in their apartment’s paved courtyard.

Instead, the plan was for them to live together as a family and squeeze as much quality life as possible into their increasingly busy schedules. The only real issue – besides their falling out with the Sussexes – was whether or not to start trying for baby number four.

Unlike Meghan and Harry, William and Kate had yet to declare their brood was big enough, and few expected them to deliberately stop at three.