Prince William has shared the touching way Princess Charlotte is taking after her mother, Kate, by developing an important skill, while Prince George and Prince Louis also explore similar interests.

The Prince of Wales, 43, visited a youth organisation in Lambeth, South London, yesterday, while his brother Prince Harry was in Nottingham. 

Spiral Skills has received funding from Prince William’s homelessness initiative, Homewards, to establish a new center for youth at The Oasis Village in Tulse Hill.

During his visit, William toured a music studio and expressed that he ensures his children learn to play instruments, considering music to be ‘essential’.

Prince George, 12, plays guitar, Princess Charlotte, 10, plays piano and Prince Louis, seven, plays drums. 

Charlotte is apparently inspired by her mother, as the Princess of Wales has previously demonstrated her piano talents, with a surprise performance during the 2023 Eurovision finals and a duet at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Eve in 2021.

Recently, the future king declined a chance to play the drums during a visit to a music charity, commenting that his son, Prince Louis, would have taken the opportunity had he been present.

When 16-year-old Django Brooke invited him to try the drums, William chuckled and said: ‘I’m definitely not a drummer. I’m happy to watch you play. If my youngest was here, he’d love to try, because he’s currently practicing, but I’d love to hear you play. But thank you for asking.’

The Prince told the young musicians taking part in a workshop: ‘It’s brilliant you guys have clearly done a lot of practising, well done, that’s not easy doing that in front of everyone – that’s brilliant.

‘You’ve all got amazing rhythm and it sounds fantastic, I wish I started when I was your age.

‘I couldn’t read music so that was my biggest weakness, I started off playing piano, trumpet and the drums and then realised I had to memorise every tune and it just fell away.

‘I make sure my children learn music because I love music and it’s crucial, really important.’

Symphony Studios founder Seth Pinnock said of William: ‘He said he couldn’t play drums well. He said he had learned drums and learned keyboards but couldn’t read it… But his children are learning to play keys, so hopefully his kids will come here one day and learn.’

During the Tusk Conservation Awards last November, William joked he had been ‘spending his entire life’ with his fingers in his ears after Louis decided to pick up the drums. 

Laughing, William said: ‘My youngest is learning the drums that’s why I spend my entire life with my fingers in my ears.’

The youngest Wales child is known for his cheeky and boisterous personality, so news of his new hobby will come as little surprise to royal fans. 

William’s son always appears full of energy – from clambering up a tree in Kate’s cancer recovery video in September, to pulling a series of cheeky expressions during Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. 

George, meanwhile, is known to have been making progress on the guitar since 2020, when Kate said he was ‘starting to learn’. 

Prince Harry is also known to play the guitar, as he was seen playing the instrument during his 2022 docu-series with Meghan.

The Wales children all appear to be following in their mother’s musical footsteps. 

In 2023, Kate delighted the nation with a surprise piano performance at the Eurovision song contest, held that year in Liverpool.  

Looking glamorous in a show-stopping sapphire gown, the video showed the Princess of Wales laughing as she played the piano.

The clip was shared on the Wales’s official Instagram with the caption: ‘#Eurovision surprise. A pleasure to join @kalush.official in a special performance of last year’s winning @eurovision entry.

‘Enjoy the show, Liverpool.’

Kate also played the piano at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Eve in 2021, which marked her first ever public piano performance.

She did a duet with Tom Walker, who sang, as the pair performed ‘For Those Who Can’t Be Here,’ when the world was beginning to come out of the Coronavirus pandemic.

She was taught how to play the instrument in her early years, alongside her siblings James and Pippa and their mother, Carole. 

But piano is not the only instrument that the Princess of Wales dabbles in, as she has played the flute but also sang before.

She played the flute during her school years at St Andrew’s in Pangbourne, Berkshire.

She was a member of St Andrews inaugural Chamber Orchestra and of the senior flute group – amusingly known as the Tootie-Flooties – along with her younger sister, Pippa. 

Friends say she was also deputy head chorister in the chapel choir and was once commended in a BBC carol competition.

Shortly before she left the school, she passed her Associated Board Grade III flute examination with merit and also her Grade V singing. 

Like her father-in-law, Kate also tried her hand at conducting, when she lead the the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, during a visit to Germany in 2017.

Earlier yesterday, William heard from community changemakers at Spiral Skills, who were formerly helped by the charity and are now trained youth workers supporting young people aged 14-25 at risk of exclusion of homelessness. 

The youth organisation was founded in 2015 and works with local schools, youth organisations and authorities to provide early intervention, support, employability skills and access to employment and services for 14 to 25-year-olds, Kensington Palace said.

The Prince visited the organisation at its new space and see how it offers support for those who need it, before attending a workshop with Young Creators UK, a creative agency run and owned by underrepresented young people which receives referrals from Spiral Skills.

He has not yet met with his brother Prince Harry, who is visiting his patronages in London and Nottingham during a rare four-day visit to the UK. 

Harry, who levelled accusations at the King, Queen, William and Kate in his Oprah interview, Netflix documentary and memoir Spare, told the BBC in May that Charles will not speak to him because of his court battle over his security, and he does not know ‘how much longer my father has’.

But he also outlined his hopes for a ‘reconciliation’ with his family, saying: ‘Of course, some members of my family will never forgive me for writing a book. Of course, they will never forgive me for lots of things.’

He added: ‘But you know, I would love reconciliation with my family’ and said there was ‘no point in continuing to fight any more’.

Harry’s level of security changed in 2020 after Megxit.

He was last in the UK in April for a court hearing about his security arrangements, but lost his Court of Appeal challenge in May and said in the TV interview he ‘can’t see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back’.

He failed in his appeal against the dismissal of his High Court claim against the Home Office, over the decision of the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec) that he should receive a different degree of protection when in the UK.