The Wales’ release video showing their young children mucking in at Big Help Out event
The Prince and Princess of Wales have released new behind-the-scenes footage of their young children mucking out to help build a Scout hut, while leading the nation on a volunteer day.
As the long coronation weekend drew to a close, thousands of people flocked across the country greturn to their local community as part of the Big Help Out event, which was created to mark the official coronation of King Charles.
Among those hard at work were Prince William and Kate today helping to renovate the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut in Slough, Berkshire with the help of their three young childrenPrince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.
The video compilation showed the three youths eagerly participating, with the adored Prince Louis helping his father drive a JCB excavator, push a rather large wheelbarrow and shoveling soil.
The radiant Princess of Wales was also caught roasting marshmallows over an open fire, while helping her own children and scouts at the event.
The Prince and Princess of Wales were among thousands of volunteers today as part of the Big Help Out event. Behind-the-scenes footage shows adorable five-year-old Prince Louis getting trapped
The radiant princess, accompanied by her three young children, roasting marshmallows next to the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut in Slough
The royal family of five were seen getting stuck, shoveling soil, painting benches and even driving an excavator, helping to renovate the 3rd Upton Scouts hut in Slough, Berkshire
The two older children were seen painting the park bench, drilling and playing archery, while Prince William drove a digging machine.
Princess Kate was seen instructing her adorable youngest child, Prince Louis, on what to do to lend a helping hand.
She tells Prince Louis, who was seen pushing a wheelbarrow full of dirt back and forth, “go fill it back up and we’ll see you back here.”
The young king captured the hearts of all onlookers when he was seen shovelling sand and painting a foot of a planter, spattering him with paint.
But his efforts were soon rewarded with a marshmallow sandwich and chocolate chip cookies.
When Prince William took over an excavator that dumped a bucket full of dirt on a loot heap, Louis sat on his dad’s lap after watching nine-year-old George try and telling Mum Kate, “I want to go in with him.”
Louis got the chance to take charge and asked ‘What’s this doing?’ as he pulled a lever, but was unphased as the excavator lurched backwards a bit and was encouraged by his father, who said, ‘Go ahead Louis, that’s it’.
Later, the five-year-old prince was tasked with filling a wheelbarrow with construction sand and focused on the job, diligently scooping up the material before driving the wheelbarrow himself.
Following last night’s coronation concert, the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their three children in tow,
The footage showed Prince George deftly using a power drill to build wooden planters
Eight-year-old Princess Charlotte painted a door
Watching over her son, Kate told him to shovel ‘a little more’ and when the wheelbarrow was a quarter full, Louis wheeled him off to help volunteers build a trail and make some runs.
The young royals helped renovate the 3rd Upton Scouts Hut while the grown-ups built a path, dug a new waterway, sanded and repainted a door, screwed together planters and painted a mural as a lasting legacy of their work .
Louis and Charlotte painted the brick base of a planter with masonry paint, and as the young prince dabbled with it, his sister said to him, “You’ve got paint in your hair!” Louis, look at me! Look at me!’
The five-year-old went ahead anyway, and his sister added, “You have to wipe it.”
A volunteer asked Louis: “Would you like to become a painter when you grow up?”
To which Louis replied, “No, a fighter pilot.”
Nearby George got a drill and screwed together wooden planters helped by a volunteer while his father also assembled the boxes and at the end William joked that they should ‘clean up my mess’ but was told that he ‘did well’. function’.
A dashing Louis joined his sister in making handprints on a mural in the Scout building and when asked which prints belonged to him, pointed as he said, “I made one there, there, and there.”
During the day out, Prince George tried his hand at archery while his father, the Prince of Wales, watched him
Prince Louis was seen hard at work, wheeling a wheelbarrow of earth back and forth
Princess Kate was seen instructing her youngest child during their day of volunteering at Berkshire Scout camp
The royal family of five all got stuck as they helped build a new Scout Hut
The three young royals took part in a game of archery that brought out the competitive spirit in the siblings, and the family later got Scout scarves.
Scout member Milena Pereira said of the archery: ‘Charlotte said she had done it at home before, but they were all determined to try.
“They were very nice and respectful, a nice family, so today was a nice surprise, we didn’t know they were coming.”
Before leaving, Louis was treated to a “smore”—a sandwich of marshmallows and chocolate chip cookies—while the younger ones roasted marshmallows over a brazier.
William smiled and said, “You won’t hear a beep from him for about 20 minutes now.”
And the five-year-old staggered around after taking a bite, savoring the moment, and bumped into his sister.
Kensington Palace described the event as Louis’s first royal engagement, although he has attended a number of high-profile royal events, the visit to Slough is believed to have been the Prince’s first time actively interacting with the public.
Matt Hyde, managing director of The Scout Association, told PA news agency: ‘We had an extraordinary day, you could see the Prince and Princess of Wales and their family helping out and having a great time.
‘Prince Louis led the way with the wheelbarrow of sand with which he helped repair a path.
‘They were all painting doors, helping to screw together planters and doing a lot of digging too, which the Prince of Wales enjoyed.