Kate Middleton Coped with Jet Lag in the Caribbean by Organizing Play Dates for Her Kids at 4 a.m. – Marie Claire

The Cambridges have touched down back home in the U.K. just in time for Mothers Day in Britain, observed today across the pond.

And, while the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are now reunited with kids Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, it seems even when they were in the Caribbean this past week, William and Kates trio were on their mind.

To cope with jet lagthe ever-present enemy of the world travelerKate turned to 4 a.m. WhatsApp conversations inside The Royal Suite at the San Ignacio Hotel in Belize to organize play dates for her kids, according to royal expert Rebecca English of The Daily Mail.

For the Duchess of Cambridge, a mothers duties never end, English wrote. So, when Kates jet lag kicked in during this weeks Caribbean tour, seeing her wide awake in the middle of the night, Im told she has spent the time tap-tap-tapping WhatsApp messages, organizing everything from Georges football matches to Charlottes ballet lessons and little Louis bedtime routine back in the U.K.

English said the Cambridges ensure that their departure and arrival times for royal tours fit around kissing the children goodnight or giving them breakfast, she wrote. Their flight on the official RAF Voyager jet tonight will get them back just in time for a nice Mothers Day brunch tomorrow.

Its the new way to juggle being a working royal and a parent, English said, one that the couple have developed through learning lessons from the past. The Queens own first trip to Jamaica in 1953 was part of a Commonwealth tour that took her away from her own young family for six long months. (Son Prince Charles was born in 1948 and daughter Princess Anne was born in 1950.)

Home life calls even, or perhaps especially, while on tour thousands of miles from home, even though the Cambridges have vowed never to undertake trips lasting much longer than a week while their children are young, English wrote.

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Kate Middleton Coped with Jet Lag in the Caribbean by Organizing Play Dates for Her Kids at 4 a.m. - Marie Claire