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Royal travel: The Cambridges jet off for half term - but why can they not fly together? - Express

Royal travel: The Cambridges jet off for half term - but why can they not fly together? - Express

Royal travel: The Cambridges jet off for half term - but why can they not fly together? - Express
Oct 24, 2021 1 min, 9 secs

One frankly unusual travel rule means often senior members of the Royal Family are not permitted to fly together unless they request permission directly from the Queen in advance.

The royals were seen outside the Windsor Suite, which is reserved for the Royal Family and other high profile celebrities, with Prince George, eight, Princess Charlotte, six and Prince Louis, three.

The reason is because both Prince William and Prince George are currently second and third in line to the throne respectively which means as per royal tradition they must travel separately in the event something tragic happens en route.

This rule also means Prince Charles and Prince William are also forbidden from flying together - and Prince Charles cannot fly with his mother, the Queen.

Prince William was granted special permission from the Queen to bend these rules when his son was nine months old and the family travelled to Australia and New Zealand in 2014.

In addition, the Queen granted permission to the couple in September 2016, when they travelled with Prince George and Princess Charlotte to Canada.

"While there is no official rule on this, and royal heirs have travelled together in the past, it is something that the Queen has the final say on."

But it is likely to be a difficult decision for the Queen given her paternal cousin Prince William of Gloucester died during a plane crash

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