--- title: Prince Charles Reads Harry Potter to His Grandchildren description: He even does the voices when reading to Prince George and Princess Charlotte canonical: https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-08T22:06:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:52.686Z og:title: Prince Charles Reads Harry Potter to His Grandchildren og:description: He even does the voices when reading to Prince George and Princess Charlotte og:url: https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Charles Reads Harry Potter to His Grandchildren twitter:description: He even does the voices when reading to Prince George and Princess Charlotte twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Prince Charles Has the Sweetest Story Time Tradition with Prince George and Princess Charlotte by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 8, 2018 10:06 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Nov 8, 2018 10:06 PM UTC When Prince Charles is not busy performing his royal duties, he is performing his grandfatherly ones. In the new _BBC One_ documentary _Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70_, which was created to mark the 70th birthday of the Duke of Cornwall, his family spills the tea on the man who will be king. Turns out he is as a very, very good grandfather. In the documentary, Prince William extols his father’s grandparenting skills, “when he’s there, he’s brilliant,” adding that the parents of three children “need him there as much as possible,” [according to _Metro UK_](https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/08/prince-charles-reads-harry-potter-to-george-charlotte-and-louis-with-voices-8116490/?ito=cbshare). (Guess we know where Prince Harry got [his affection for kids](http://time.com/5335800/meghan-markle-prince-harry-ireland-kids/)!) In the documentary, his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, says their “grandchildren adore him, absolutely adore him,” [_Mashable_ reports](https://mashable.com/article/prince-charles-george-charlotte-louis-harry-potter/?utm%5Fcid=hp-h-1#3BxlHmNYmsqN). The Prince reportedly loves spending time with his grandchildren George, Charlotte, and [Louis](http://time.com/5338232/prince-louis-christening-photos/), and will happily “get down on his knees and crawl about with them for hours, you know making funny noises and laughing,” the Duchess says in the documentary. That’s not the only grandfatherly activity, though. He’s also apparently an incredibly talented narrator and has developed a sweet story time ritual with his grandchildren. “He reads _Harry Potter_ and he can do all the different voices and I think children really appreciate that,” Camilla revealed. Perhaps when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s [child is born](http://time.com/5424493/meghan-markle-prince-harry-royal-baby/), grandpa will start the series over from the beginning. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/"},"headline":"Prince Charles Has the Sweetest Story Time Tradition with Prince George and Princess Charlotte","datePublished":"2018-11-08T22:06:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:52.686Z","description":"He even does the voices when reading to Prince George and Princess Charlotte","url":"https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Prince Charles","Prince George","Harry Potter","Princess Charlotte","british royal family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5447728/prince-charles-george-charlotte/","name":"Prince Charles Has the Sweetest Story Time Tradition with Prince George and Princess Charlotte"}}]}] ```