article_snippet: she is, after all, the only mother, and grandmother for George, that Kate and William have.
article_snippet: Prince Charles was only three when George VI died, and Prince Charles never knew Prince Charles paternal grandfather, Prince Philip's dissolute, playboy father Prince Andrew of Greece, who died in 1944.
article_snippet: The Queen Mother stepped into The Queen Mother husband's empty space and became Charles's counsellor and mentor, a vital sounding board in her husband life, until The Queen Mother death in 2002 at the age of 101.
article_snippet: It is a unique and extraordinary situation that three generations of heir to the throne, aged 66, 32 and 20 months, are all living at the same time.
article_snippet: Young : Prince William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with George .
article_snippet: After Princess Anne married Captain Mark Phillips and gave birth to Peter and then Zara, her mother-in-law, Anne Phillips, complained Princess Anne and Princess Anne husband had been 'completely forgotten by Buckingham Palace'.