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Kate described in March, when George and Charlotte's school closed for the first time, what it was like for her and William to homeschool their children.

\"George gets very upset because he just wants to do all of Charlotte's projects,\" Kate said of her oldest child. \"Making spider sandwiches is far cooler than doing literacy work.\"

\"It's really hard,\" she added, when asked about how the kids were coping with not seeing friends and family members. \"We hadn't done a huge amount of FaceTime and face calls and things like that, but obviously we're doing that a lot more now, and actually it's been really great.\"

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\"We try and check in daily with family members and speak to them about news and things like that, and in some ways I suppose we've got a lot more face time than perhaps we would have done before but it is difficult,\" Kate said. \"It's hard to explain to a 5 and a 6, nearly 7-year-old what's going on.\"

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