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.
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.”
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.