That prince Wilhelmborn June 21, 1982, blow out 40 candles. And he’s so popular we think we know everything about him. But many anecdotes about his life are little known. And they tell the prince better than many novels. For example, he only had seven years when he told Mama Diana he wanted to be a police officer to be her bodyguard. Harry, who was five years old, replied: “You can’t: you have to be king“.
As is well known, Mama Diana’s bond with her children has always been very strong. While Carlo has always been portrayed as an icy father. Today, the heir to the throne and the eldest son are very close, but it wasn’t always like that. Carlo’s troubled marriage to Lady D couldn’t help but leave its mark on his children. Especially since Diana often cried in front of the older one, always by her side. Once, when he was just eight, it was William who handed his mother, who was locked in the bathroom in Highrove after an argument with her husband, the tissues and would not stop sobbing.
It is logical that William could not understand this father for years, from him judged to be too cold and distant. But on the occasion of the prince’s first forty years, Der Spiegel fished out a letter that Carlo wrote after his birth and that tells of a father that was anything but cold: “The arrival of our son was a surprising experience and meant more to me than I could have ever imagined.” Carlo wrote the letter to a cousin, Countess Patricia Mountbatten. “I’m so thankful that I was by Diana’s bedside the whole time because I witnessed the birthing process deeply and then I was rewarded for it Appearance of the little creature that was ours“.
Williams’ birth seems to have brought out Carlo’s more sentimental side. The same cannot be said of Elizabeth II. William was the first British prince born outside of a royal palace. His mother Diana gave birth to him at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. The REgina She saw him just a few days after he was born. And on this occasion, too, he unleashed his proverbial sense of humor. When first meeting William, reports the British edition of Marie Claire, the Queen came up with very different words than one would expect from a new grandmother: “Thank God he doesn’t have his father’s ears!» exclaimed the queen, alluding to Karl’s famous sticking out ears, which always brought teasing and merciless jokes to the prince.
40 years have passed since then. And William is celebrating it at a time when his popularity – thanks in part to “Harry’s betrayal»- exploded. After Elizabeth II many Britons would like to have him on the English throne (in place of his father Charles). Why William and his wife Kate Middleton they form the “perfect officiating couple”, as royal experts explain. There are many reasons for this: The Cambridge pose themselves for humanitarian reasons; “They are able to mix tradition and modernity”; They are always nice and relaxed. And they know how to learn from their mistakes. For example after the last one Travel to the CaribbeanA means flop Shaped by the protests surrounding colonialism, they understood it was time to modernize royal protocol: “They want people You only call by namenot with their titles”revealed the Daily Mail, and intend to abolish bows, the fundamental symbol of formality.
Today, at 40, William is a much-loved king-to-be. But mainly he is a father. According to a Palazzo source, the prince and his wife carefully planned their royal career from the start of their marriage to “leave room for the role of parents”. Because for him and for Kate the little ones George, Charlotte and Ludwig they come first, before the crown.
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