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PRINCE George and Princess Charlotte aren't allowed to sit with their parents at royal dinners, it's been claimed, and it has nothing to do with how they hold a knife and fork.

The young royals have to sit on the kids' table at official events - according to  - and sometimes it's in a different room to mum and dad.

 Prince George and Princess Charlotte aren't allowed to eat with their parents at royal dinners, it's been claimed
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Prince George and Princess Charlotte aren't allowed to eat with their parents at royal dinners, it's been claimedCredit: Getty - Contributor
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Apparently, Charlotte, 3, and George, 4, are banned from joining their parents until they've mastered the "art of polite conversation".

And it's also been reported that on Christmas Day young princes and princesses have to eat in the nursery looked after by nannies.

Former royal chef Darren McGrady, who cooked seven Christmas dinners during his time working for the Queen and Princess Diana, told that children ate in the nursery "until they were old enough to conduct themselves properly at the dining table".

He added: "So for the Queen there was never a case of putting a high chair at the table with a little baby squealing and throwing food. It was Victorian. The children's place was in the nursery and Nanny would take care of them. It's your modern day Downton Abbey."

 Reports say Charlotte and George must learn the 'art of polite conversation' before they can join official meals
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Reports say Charlotte and George must learn the 'art of polite conversation' before they can join official mealsCredit: Getty - Contributor

It's not just dinnertime chat the pair are swotting up on.

The royals are required to be fluent in at least two languages, with reporting that Charlotte had already started Spanish lessons earlier this year.

Her nanny Maria Teresa Turrion is a Spanish native and it said to speak to the princess in her mother tongue at home.

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