KING'S WARNING 'WATCH OUT FOR LOUIS!'

Charles doesn't want William making the same mistakes he did

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There's no doubt the King - aka “Grandpa Wales” - is a doting grandfather to the Prince and Princess of Wales' three children. And his connection to tearaway grandson Prince Louis, who turned seven last week, is one of the things that he's most proud of, with their close bond often captured on camera.

However, a palace insider tells us that Charles, 76, sees so much of a young Prince Harry in Louis that he's had a cautious word to both William and Kate.

“He doesn’t want Louis to feel sidelined and ignored like Harry feels he was,” says our source. “Charles has a special place in his heart for Louis, whose antics remind him dearly of Harry when he was a boy. Having said that, he doesn’t want William and Kate to succumb to Louis’ roguish charms, and he’s keen for them to always keep a close, firm-but-fair eye on him. It’s something Charles fears he failed to do with Harry.”

In his bombshell 2023 memoir Spare, Harry, 40, recounted his tense and often-troubled relationship with his father, whom he affectionately calls Pa. He claims Charles - and occasionally the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip - would jokingly call him “the spare” to his face.