Kate Middleton and Prince William to open part of Kensington Palace for schoolkids to learn about the Royal Family

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WILLS and Kate are to open part of their home for schoolchildren to learn about the Royal Family.

Plans have been submitted to build a two-storey education centre at Kensington Palace.

Part of Kensington Palace will be opened up to schoolchildren who want to learn about the Royal Family

It will be an extension to Grade I-listed Queen Annes Orangery and a new garden will link the 323-year-old building to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridges West London home.

A royal source said: Wills and Kate want to be able to teach younger children about the monarchy, and with this project are trying to give a positive message.”

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have submitted plans to build an education centre at their home
The two-storey education centre would be an extension to Queen Anne’s Orangery

Education is a very important thing and this will be the perfect backdrop for students to learn.

Historic Royal Palaces, an independent charity managing the buildings, said the Orangery Learning Centre would further a history where it happened initiative which teaches how the monarchy has changed and evolved over the past 1,000 years.

But Graham Smith, of anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, claimed the project would be more PR than education and said he feared that anything taught would be sugar-coated when it should be warts and all.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge posing with their children for the Royal Christmas card
William and Kate are ‘trying to give a positive message’ through this project, says a Royal source
The Duke and Duchess’s learning centre would teach kids how the monarchy has changed over the past 1,000 years