The British royal family is built on centuries of tradition.
But one cherished rite of passage is coming under fire.
And Kate Middleton drew a line in the sand about her kids taking part in this royal family ritual.
Kate Middleton won’t let her kids take part in blooding ritual
Hunting has been a pastime for the British royal family for more than 700 years.
Children of the royal family who kill their first fox or deer take part in a ritual known as “blooding.”
The blood of the animal they killed is smeared over their faces.
Royal author Tom Quinn claimed that Princess Kate Middleton “put her foot down” over Prince William allowing their three children to participate in any blooding rituals.
11-year-old Prince George, eight-year-old Princess Charlotte, and six-year-old Prince Louis won’t take part in this centuries-old tradition on the Princess of Wales’ orders.
“Charles’s daughter-in-law, Catherine, Princess of Wales, has put her foot down and insisted there will be no blooding for her children,” Quinn wrote in the book Yes, Ma’am: The Secret Life of Royal Servants.
King Charles III, Prince William, and Prince Harry all took part in the blooding rituals when they were young.
Hunting has been a longtime tradition in the royal family but the pressure is building on them to ditch the practice.
An act of the British Parliament in 2004 banned using dogs to hunt foxes, deer, rabbits, and other wild animals with a few exceptions.
Quinn wrote in his 2023 book, Gilded Youth, that William was having second thoughts about carrying on the hunting tradition in his family.
“William loves shooting — a love he shares with his father — but he is also conscious that the tide is now moving against what many people now refer to as blood sports (the royals prefer to refer to them as field sports),” Quinn wrote. “But are they suitable for George, Charlotte and Louis?”
Prince Harry described his experience with his blooding ritual
Prince Harry talked about his participation in the ritual in his 2023 tell-all memoir Spare.
The Duke of Sussex went out with his hunting guide, Sandy, as a young man on the property of Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Harry wrote that Sandy pushed him by the neck until his face was pressed into the wound of the deer he shot.
“He placed a hand gently behind my neck, and … pushed my head inside the carcass,” Harry wrote. “I tried to pull away, but Sandy pushed me deeper. I was shocked by his insane strength. And by the infernal smell. My breakfast jumped up from my stomach.”
“After a minute I couldn’t smell anything, because I couldn’t breathe. My nose and mouth were full of blood, guts and a deep, upsetting warmth,” Harry added.
Animal rights activists scolded Harry for including the experience in his book.
But Harry said that he took pride in the fact that he called the deer with a single shot.
“I’d also been good to Nature. Managing their numbers meant saving the deer population as a whole, ensuring they’d have enough food for winter,” Harry stated. “Finally, I’d been good to the community. A big stag in the larder meant plenty of good meat for those living around Balmoral.”
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