THE GUARDIAN: Royal says ‘it’s probably been the hardest year in my life’ as Catherine and King Charles underwent cancer treatment
Prince William has described the past year as “brutal” and “probably the hardest year in my life” as he dealt with his wife and father having cancer.
In a video interview to mark the end of his week-long visit of Cape Town in South Africa for the Earthshot prize awards ceremony, William was asked about his year. “Honestly, it’s been dreadful,” he said. “It’s probably been the hardest year in my life. Trying to get through everything else and keep everything on track has been really difficult.
“But I’m so proud of my wife, I’m proud of my father, for handling the things that they have done. But from a personal family point of view, it’s been, yeah, it’s been brutal.” » | Tom Ambrose and agency | Friday, November 8, 2024
Showing posts with label Prince William. Show all posts
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Friday, November 08, 2024
Sunday, November 03, 2024
King's ‘Tentacles’ Stretch across the UK Charging People ‘Millions’
Nov 3, 2024 | “Their tentacles stretch just about everywhere across the UK.”
The King and Prince William are earning millions from charging councils and government departments, with some of these charges being “really petty”, says @JCalvertST.
The King and Prince William are earning millions from charging councils and government departments, with some of these charges being “really petty”, says @JCalvertST.
Friday, January 06, 2023
Prince Harry Saw ‘Red Mist’ in William during Brother’s Alleged Attack
THE GUARDIAN: Duke of Sussex recounts altercation with brother, saying ‘he wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to’
Prince Harry has said he saw “the red mist” in his brother, Prince William, when his older sibling allegedly attacked him during a confrontation over the younger duke’s relationship with Meghan Markle.
In a newly released clip from ITV’s forthcoming interview with Harry, the Duke of Sussex said his brother, William, was so frustrated during the 2019 incident he saw “the red mist in him”.
“He wanted me to hit him back, but I chose not to,” he says of his brother, who he earlier claimed in his book had physically attacked him – as was first reported by the Guardian.
The book’s revelations are spread across front pages of almost every national newspaper in the UK and are likely to reduce the possibility of a reconciliation between the Sussexes and the rest of the British royal family. (With video) » | Jamie Grierson | Friday, January 6, 2023
Saturday, July 03, 2021
William and Harry Unveil Princess Diana Statue
Friday, May 21, 2021
Prince William as Personal as the Public Has Ever Seen in Diana Remarks
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Prince William Worried about Harry after TV Interview Discussing Their 'Rift', Source Claims
The Duke is said to be “worried” about his younger brother, who on Sunday night publicly confirmed the siblings are on “different paths” and spending less time together.
A palace source told the BBC of household fears the Sussexes are in a “fragile place”, with Prince William hoping they “are alright” after Prince Harry unexpectedly laid bare details of their private relationship in a television documentary.
Acknowledging a “rift” in conversation with friend and broadcaster Tom Bradby on ITV, Prince Harry admitted "inevitably stuff happens" under the pressure of royal life.
His decision to speak about the brothers’ relationship immediately placed them at the centre of a worldwide conversation, detailed on the front page of five leading British newspapers and headline news on radio and television from the Today programme to Loose Women. » | Hannah Furness, Royal Correspondent | Monday, October 21, 2019
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Prince William Says It's Fine If His Children Come Out as LGBT | 5 News
Sunday, April 28, 2019
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Royal Idiocy! Prince William Wants 'All Royal Ivory Destroyed'
The Duke of Cambridge wants to strip all the ivory from Buckingham Palace and destroy it, The Independent on Sunday can reveal, in a move conservationists hailed as "extremely significant" in the fight against elephant poaching.
Some 1,200 items containing ivory are listed in the royal collection, including a throne from India that incorporates elephant-ivory plaques. The move would seek to encourage other heads of states to give up their ivory stocks and collections.
The revelation comes days after the Duke attended the world's largest ever conference on the illegal wildlife trade, which called for an end to the £12bn trade in animals and their parts, including ivory. At least 45 tons of ivory were seized in 2013, believed to be the biggest annual haul in a quarter of a century. » | Sarah Morrison | Sunday, February 16, 2014
My comment:
What a ridiculous suggestion! What good will destroying all those wonderful objets d'art do? That would be wanton destruction, rather like Salafists wanting to destroy the Sphinx and the Pyramids. I feel sure that the Queen would not warm to this suggestion!
If Prince William really wants to do something positive for elephants, then he can determine not to accept such gifts in future, and not purchase anything made with ivory from now on.
This suggestion is redolent of those women who took their fur coats and burned them. It did not bring back the animals who had to suffer to make them, not did it help to keep anyone warm.
This suggestion is more than silly, it's ridiculous. –© Mark
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Monday, December 03, 2012
The Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, is understood to have found out last month that she was pregnant, and had not intended to go public with the news until she was at least 12 weeks pregnant.
But after being admitted to hospital with a bout of acute morning sickness, the Duke and Duchess decided to make the announcement early to avoid any speculation about her condition.
Royal sources refused to say how many weeks pregnant the Duchess is, but confirmed she has not yet reached the 12-week stage.
The Duchess, 30, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, which means she needs to be given extra fluids and nutrition, and is likely to remain in hospital for several days. » | Monday, December 03, 2012
Monday, June 04, 2012
LE FIGARO: La presse britannique soulève l'hypothèse selon laquelle le prince de Galles devrait céder la place à son fils William, dont la popularité est au plus haut depuis son mariage glamour en 2011.Le prince Charles trépigne. S'il fait bonne figure dans les célébrations des soixante ans de règne de sa mère, le fils aîné d'Elizabeth II est d'ores et déjà l'héritier du trône qui a le plus attendu de l'histoire de la lignée britannique - après avoir détrôné, si l'on peut dire, son aïeul Edouard VII en 2008 [?]. Émouvant lorsqu'il raconte sur la BBC ses souvenirs de sa «mama» s'entraînant à porter la couronne lorsqu'elle lui donnait son bain à Buckingham avant son couronnement (il avait 4 ans), il ronge son frein.
À 86 ans, la reine se porte à merveille et promet à ses sujets de continuer à régner «pour de nombreuses années à venir». Sa propre mère a vécu 101 ans, sa grand-mère 85 ans. Le mot abdication est tabou à la cour d'Elizabeth, qui ne s'y résoudra qu'en cas de grande incapacité physique ou mentale. À l'âge où le commun des mortels se prépare à prendre sa retraite, le prince de Galles, lui, est toujours en formation. Parmi ses 21 prédécesseurs, seulement 14 sont devenus rois. » | Par Florentin Collomp | lundi 04 juin 2012
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
MAIL ONLINE: At the age of 13, Prince William faced the daunting prospect of becoming a new boy in a school that was almost ten times the size of his old one. That was hard enough.
What made his transition to Eton far more of an ordeal was that no one — from masters to pupils — could fail to be unaware of the open warfare that was tearing his parents’ marriage apart.
Unlike his prep school, where the head often pretended the news-papers hadn’t been delivered, multiple sets arrived on the premises daily — and William could simply no longer be shielded.
So it was doubly unfortunate that, almost immediately after his arrival, his mother’s love life was once again making lurid headlines. This time, the man in question was the England rugby captain Will Carling, whom William had met several times with Diana.
For a boy trying to handle his first weeks at a big school, it was excruciatingly hard to bear.
But there was worse to come, as his house master Andrew Gailey soon discovered. While William was still settling in, Gailey learned that the Princess of Wales was recording an interview in secret for the BBC.
Concerned for his pupil, he phoned Diana and told her it was imperative to explain to William, face-to-face, what she was intending to do.
‘Is that really necessary?’ she said. It was, he said — but she refused to come. The next day he phoned again and was even more insistent. Reluctantly, she agreed to go to the school.
In the end, the meeting between mother and son lasted no longer than five minutes. Diana told William that the programme she’d recorded would not contain anything controversial.
It would make him proud of her, she assured him. And before he had a chance to ask any questions, she left. There’s no doubt she anticipated a magnificent triumph. ‘It’s terribly moving,’ she told her private secretary, when he asked what the programme contained.
On November 20, 1995, a large proportion of the nation sat glued to their TV sets in disbelief as Diana gave the performance of her life on Panorama. » | Penny Junor | Friday, May 04, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: William 'deeply upset' by Diana's Panorama interview: The young Duke of Cambridge was left “deeply upset” by the Panorama interview in which his mother lifted the lid on her marriage to the Prince of Wales - after she had assured him it would contain nothing controversial - according to a new biography. » | Saturday, May 05, 2012
Saturday, November 12, 2011
DAILY EXPRESS: THE Duchess of Cambridge was last night fully backing her husband William’s deployment to the Falkland Islands despite sick death threats.
As Argentina accused Britain of acting “aggressively and provocatively” by sending the Prince to the islands, websites in the South American country were inundated with threats to William.
Some vile posts even called for the Duke to be killed in revenge for Argentinian deaths during the Falklands conflict nearly 30 years ago. » | Mark Reynolds | Saturday, November 12, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Prince William and the royal party could have been forgiven for not noticing, but there was a part of Quebec that had no intention of welcoming him and his wife, except with whistles, saucepan lids, vuvuzelas and, incongruously, bagpipes.
The prince – a rare British royal venturing into the heart of francophone, would-be separatist Quebec – received a formal welcome and inspection parade outside the city hall by the bearskin-helmeted members of the locally recruited 22nd regiment, known as "Les Van Doos". The mayor's words of welcome were warm, and even the regimental goat, Baptiste, looked benignly upon him.
So far, all in a day's work. But a few streets away, around 300 demonstrators had a different message. Mostly young, T-shirt clad and some facially studded, but with a scattering of older folk, they had gathered outside an Irish pub to bellow, toot and whistle the message that the monarchy should get out of Canada.
Blue and white fleur-de-lys Quebec flags were waved, as was the green, white and red standard of the failed insurrection of 1837. Their handmade banners told the story: "Parasite go home" said one, "And don't come back" added another. "Pay for your trip" said a third. "William dégage" was the message. Even more bluntly and in English: "Kate go UK yourself". And one for students of Britain's victory over France in the seven years war: "We are still waiting for your excuses for 1755." » | Stephen Bates | Sunday, July 03, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Prince William and Kate Middleton's Royal tour of Canada: Kate given rapturous welcome in Ottawa – The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, found out last night just how much of a global phenomenon she has become as she was given a rapturous welcome at the start of her first working tour as a member of the Royal family, in Canada. » | Gordon Rayner, Ottawa | Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have gone on their honeymoon, 10 days after their Westminster Abbey wedding.Their romantic break was confirmed by St James’s Palace.
On Monday, the couple were seen leaving their Anglesey home with large amounts of luggage[.]
One report claimed that they were heading for the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean.
Prince William and his new bride were expected to go on honeymoon on April 30, the day after their wedding attracted more than a million people to the streets of London. » | Caroline Gammell | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
MAIL ONLINE: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have left for a two-week honeymoon in a secret hideaway in the Indian Ocean.
The newlyweds will stay in an exclusive villa that costs £4,000-a-night and is located on one of the most beautiful and romantic islands in the world.
The Duke and Duchess are believed to have flown out by private jet yesterday before being taken by helicopter from the mainland to the tropical retreat.
William's car was apparently seen leaving Anglesey, north Wales, yesterday accompanied by a police Range Rover piled high with luggage.
A spokesman for St James's Palace said he would not confirm their honeymoon destination, although according to reports, the couple may have headed for the Seychelles. Wish you were heir! Prince William whisks Kate away on a £4,000-a-night tropical honeymoon 'in the Seychelles' » | Rebecca English | Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Saturday, May 07, 2011
PARIS MATCH: Dimanche, le Duc et la Duchesse de Cambridge devraient s'envoler pour une lune de miel qui ressemble fort à un retour aux sources de leur amour.La nouvelle est tombée cet après-midi sur le site du Daily Mirror : le couple princier part demain aux Seychelles en voyage de noces. « Ils ne peuvent plus attendre de prendre du recul et d'évoquer ensemble les semaines incroyables qui viennent de s'écouler » confie au tabloïd un proche des jeunes mariés.
Depuis des semaines Kate et William ont parcouru virtuellement la moitié de la planète, au gré de l'imagination baladeuse de la presse britannique : Kenya, île Moustique, Amérique-du-Sud, Jordanie... Les destinations défilaient aussi vite que les stations du métro londonien. » | David Ramasseul, Parismatch.com | Samedi 07 Mai 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: William and Kate are the new stars of the Royal family – and the public love them for their spontaneity, says Patrick JephsonA week has passed in the new royal era. Prince William is back at his airbase. Kate is in the supermarket. The Queen is at Windsor Castle. The media circus has packed its satellite dishes and left town. The bunting has been recycled. Like a cartwheeling verger, we’ve watched the world turn upside down and then revolve right-way up again. Everything looks as it did before. But everything has changed.
These unremarkable days are actually momentous. Historians of tomorrow may look back on them as the point at which either the British Crown reinvented itself to prosper for another 100 years… or at which it gave one final hurrah before slipping into terminal irrelevance.
A touch melodramatic? Consider the options. On the one hand, with the wedding of the decade triumphantly behind us and the prospect of royal babies growing closer by the day, the monarchy is set fair. But on the other, by any realistic actuarial assessment, the next two candidates for the throne will be grandparents by the time they ascend it. That’s not in itself a bad thing – wisdom being one of the qualities most prized in a king – but in a country inexorably ageing, who could blame today’s teenagers for being disenchanted by a system that will never deliver a head of state for their generation. Continue reading and comment » | Patrick Jephson* | Saturday, May 07, 2011
*Patrick Jephson was equerry and private secretary to HRH the Princess of Wales 1988-96
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