Why Prince William And Kate Middleton Turned Down First Official Role For Son, Prince Louis

While Palace staff were amused at the invitation, Louis’ parents Kate Middleton and Prince William, declined the offer as the young Prince is still some years away from starting work.

Per The Telegraph, the Prince and Princess of Wales’s youngest son loves collecting conkers (seeds from horse chestnut trees), to the point where Kate said “We keep finding conkers in cupboards, in his bed—conkers everywhere.”

Since Prince Louis is not a working royal just yet, a palace spokesperson said,

“We really appreciate the invite but currently Prince Louis is ‘conker-trating’ on his studies.”

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St John Burkett, spokesperson for the World Conker Championships told The Telegraph earlier this week that they had invited Prince Louis to the event as a patron and were ‘excitedly awaiting a response’.

He said:

“Like the many other organisations for which members of the Royal Family are patrons, we have charitable aims and have raised approaching £450,000 to help people living with sight loss.

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We were so heartened to hear that Prince Louis is such a conkers fan and he would be the perfect honorary patron for our organisation. We would be delighted were his parents to accept our offer.”

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He added that Prince Louis would be welcome to attend an event in the future.