Biography
Prince William is one of the most popular personalities in the world community and modern European history. Today, the Duke of Cambridge is a member of the British royal family and the first heir to the throne after his father, which he considers a great gift and a heavy curse. Despite this, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II has come to terms with the fact that William is a descendant of royal blood and fulfills his assigned duties in secular society with dignity, which attracts the attention of hundreds of thousands of people.
Instagram and Wikipedia Prince William
Members of the royal dynasty have quite a lot of rules of decency, duties and prohibitions that they, being carriers of royal blood, must accept and fulfill. Such rules include a ban on autographs from family members, flying on an airplane with the whole family, and others.
In addition, all representatives of the ruling dynasty should not behave too openly. Most likely, this is why none of the Cambridge princes have pages on social networks or Instagram. Both the Prince William Wikipedia and various publications write about the life and activities of the royals.
Childhood and youth
The biography of Prince William begins on June 21, 1982 at St. Mary's Hospital in London. The boy was born into the royal family of Prince Charles of Wales and Princess Diana, becoming the first heir to the throne after his father. William Arthur Philip Louis was the first-born of his parents and from the moment of the birth of Prince William gained popularity in society, as he became the only member of the royal family born outside the palace.
Prince William and Princess Diana
Since childhood, Prince William was a restless and inquisitive child, and also loved to play pranks and play around. But the boundless love for his mother forced William to settle down as a teenager and turn from a tomboy into a real prince. Then the boy took up his studies and devoted his free time to books, for which Princess Diana began jokingly calling her son a “thinker.”
A distinctive feature of the education of Prince William and brother Prince Harry was the boarding school in Berkshire, as the mother categorically insisted that the children be taught not in the traditional isolated style, but on an equal basis with other children. Prince William calls his studies at school his happiest days, as there the boy socialized and learned to communicate with people, which in the future allowed the prince to win the love of the British.
At school, the young man lived in the same room with four other students, with whom he studied reading, arithmetic, history and writing in classes. Also, the prince, whose height is 191 cm, became interested in sports and achieved success in football, hockey, marathon running and athletics.
In 1995, after graduating from school, the Duke of Cambridge entered the prestigious Eton College, where he studied art history, geography and biology in depth. The young man was excellent at specialized subjects, so teachers remembered the heir to the royal throne as a diligent and well-mannered student with a sense of modesty and tact. Thanks to his sociability developed in primary school, Prince William quickly made friends, but, however, at Eton, William had to live in a separate room, not because of arrogance, but for security reasons.
Prince William and Prince Charles
The first year of a happy and joyful life at college ended with a terrible shock for Prince William. At the end of August 1996, the parents of the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana filed for divorce. The heir to the royal throne was very upset by the breakdown of his parents' relationship, but acted as the main supporter of his mother in the royal family, as he felt boundless love for her.
The divorce of his parents was not the last misfortune in the royal family - on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana died in a car accident, which plunged Prince William into deep shock. The young man had a hard time bearing the loss of a loved one, so he became uncommunicative, stopped attending classes and completely withdrew into himself.
Prince William at his mother's funeral
At that moment, the prince developed a so-called phobia, which was expressed in hatred of journalists, since the royal heir considers the “paparazzi” to be the main culprits in his mother’s death.
To return to normal life and overcome stress, the Duke of Cambridge had to seek help from psychoanalysts who helped William cope with the grief that befell the young man. After which the prince pulled himself together and continued his studies, trying to fulfill the cherished dreams of his late mother, who wanted her children to be educated people.
Activity
After graduating from Eton, Prince William took a year-long break from his studies and devoted himself to royal affairs. The young man decided to follow in the footsteps of Princess Diana, so he devoted this time to traveling around the world. The Duke of Cambridge visited many third world countries, where he carried out large-scale charity events, just as his mother did. During this time, William managed to collect his thoughts and decide on the direction for his future education.
Prince William in his youth
The choice of the royal heir fell on the prestigious University of St. Andrews, located in Scotland, where the young man applied for admission to the general program. Soon William became a university student at the Faculty of Art History. Studying did not bring much pleasure to Prince William, and the young man even wanted to drop out of the university, but after the third year he decided to change his major to geography, which captivated the heir and allowed him to successfully graduate from the university with a prestigious diploma.
Prince William's further activities consisted of performing socially useful deeds in the public service. The Duke of Cambridge represented Queen Elizabeth II at commemorations in New Zealand marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and also worked in the management of a country estate and in various financial institutions.
Prince William and Queen Elizabeth II
In mid-2006, Prince William entered the Royal Military Academy, which repeated the career of all members of the royal family in the male line. The young man had to serve in the British regiment of the Royal Horse Guards. In 2009, William graduated from Sandhurst with the rank of junior lieutenant and entered the RAF flight school, from which he graduated with the rank of captain.
During the same period, Prince William was awarded the honorary title of barrister, making the Duke the sixth member of the royal family to achieve this prestigious title since the 19th century.
Prince William in the Air Force
But lawyering did not greatly attract the heir to the royal throne, so William decided to devote himself to working in the British rescue service.
The prince was assigned to the Royal Air Force rescue base, whose forces are localized on the Welsh island of Anglesey. As a rescue helicopter pilot, William had to participate in many special operations, including the operation to rescue Russian sailors from the wrecked ship Swanland.
William, Duke of Cambridge
Born on June 21, 1982 at 9 pm, in London, in the Paddington area. William was the first crown prince to be born outside the royal palace - he was born at St. Mary's Hospital in London. He became the object of attention of the paparazzi as soon as he was born: already upon leaving the maternity hospital, Diana and Charles came under the camera lenses of numerous photographers who wanted to be the first to take a photo of the heir.
On August 4, 1982, the prince was baptized by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Buckingham Palace and received the name William Arthur Philip Louis.
From 1990 to 1995, the prince attended Ludgrove School in Berkshire. It was a boarding school, and William did everything the same as the others, living in a room with four other students. At school, he was captain of the hockey and rugby teams, was an avid swimmer, played football and basketball well, and represented the school in cross-country running marathons on several occasions.
After school, William entered the famous Eton College, where he studied geography, biology and art history. The prince was always a diligent student and received good grades both in specialized subjects and in education, in addition, he easily found a common language with his peers. Thanks to his sociability, natural tact and modesty with an absolute lack of arrogance, he quickly acquired friends and acquaintances [ source not specified 39 days
]. In college, he lived in a separate room and used a separate shower for safety reasons.
When William's parents divorced in August 1996, the prince took it hard. He was always closer to his mother than to his father, but Princess Diana communicated a lot with the children even after the divorce. Even after the divorce, she continued to be considered a member of the royal family and lived in Kensington Palace and did a lot of charity work.
The big blow in the prince's life came on August 31, 1997, when his mother, Princess Diana, died in a car accident in Paris. The prince learned about the tragedy only on September 1 from his father, since Prince Charles forbade the children to have a radio in the house. William took part in organizing the funeral. He and his brother, Prince Harry, followed their mother's coffin in a funeral procession all the way to Westminster Abbey, where the funeral took place. After the death of his mother, William visited a psychoanalyst of his own free will. During this period, William's long-standing hostility towards the press escalated to the limit: he blamed the paparazzi for his mother's death.
In July 2000, after graduating from Eton College, the prince, like many students, decided to take a break from his studies for a year. He traveled a lot, visited Chile, visited African countries following his mother (Princess Diana was actively involved in charity work), and even worked on an English dairy farm. After a year, Prince William decided to enter the prestigious University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and soon became a student. The prince celebrated his coming of age (according to British law, it comes at 21) with an African-style party, which he held at Windsor Castle under the supervision of the queen herself.
The Prince's thesis in 2005 was on coral reefs. He graduated from the university with very good results, and in this he surpassed his father, a graduate of Cambridge. For some time after graduating from university, William worked and was engaged in socially useful activities, for example, representing Her Majesty in New Zealand, in the cities of Wellington and Auckland at the celebrations dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
In May 2006, Prince William entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned in December 2006 and joined the Royal Cavalry as a Second Lieutenant. In this regard, his career is no different from the career of his male ancestors, starting with Henry V, since in Great Britain the monarch formally heads the country's armed forces. In 2009, after graduating from the RAF flight school in Cranwell, he was transferred to the Royal Air Force and promoted to the rank of captain (Flight Lieutenant). Currently [ when?
] serves as a rescue helicopter pilot. At the end of November 2011, he participated in the operation to rescue Russian sailors from the sinking ship Swanland.
In May 2006, Prince William succeeded his uncle, the Duke of York, as President of the FA.[4] Being an active athlete, as well as a fan of the Birmingham football club Aston Villa[5], the prince expressed an ardent desire to attract as many children as possible to football[4].
Personal life
Prince William's personal life is more attractive to society than his military successes. Until 2011, the young man was the most eligible bachelor in the whole world, and after it became known about his engagement to Kate Middleton, he attracted the attention of continental Europe.
The Duke of Cambridge met his future wife in 2001 while studying at St. Andrews University. The relationship was quite difficult at first due to the close attention and attacks of journalists.
Prince William and Kate Middleton
The lovers could not withstand such an “attack”, so in 2007 they decided to separate. At the same time, many were sure that the reason for the separation lay elsewhere: Jessica Craig, whom the prince dated before Kate, reappeared in his life. But three years later, the couple, out of mutual love, decided to renew their relationship, after which the news of the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton spread around the world.
The wedding of the heir to the royal throne took place on April 29, 2011 at St. Peter's Church in London, where thousands of people from all over the world gathered to watch the wedding ceremony of the royal couple. According to media reports, the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton cost the municipal treasury almost $175 million and became the most discussed event in Europe.
After the Archbishop declared William and Kate man and wife, Queen Elizabeth II named the young couple the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Their official place of residence was Kensington Palace, which the newlyweds inherited from Princess Diana.
Prince William and Prince George
Two years after the wedding, Kate Middleton gave her husband an heir, who was born on June 22, 2013. The happy parents named their son George, who, like his father, from birth became one of the most popular people on the planet.
In 2014, it became known about the new pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, who gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte, on May 2, 2020. Photos of the young family regularly appear on the covers of leading English and world publications.
After the birth of his children, Prince William decided to leave military service, expressing a desire to devote himself to royal duties and charity. The Duke intends to direct his efforts to the protection and preservation of wildlife, which is on the verge of extinction due to catastrophic climate change.
Prince William's son - Prince George of Cambridge
Prince William's son, Prince George of Cambridge, is the first and long-awaited child in the royal family, born in 2013. Many publications wrote about this event even before the boy was born, and the Prince’s page appeared on Wikipedia, so the newspapers called him the most famous baby in the world.
George was born at St Mary's Hospital and his father was present at the birth of his son. Today you can find many photographs of the royal family with children on the Internet. They are rightfully considered the most famous families in the world, and Prince George will inherit the throne of Great Britain after his grandfather and father.
Scandals
In 2012, the name of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was associated with a scandal associated with the appearance of provocative photographs of the newlyweds on vacation. In photographs that appeared on the covers of French publications Closer and La Provence, Kate Middleton was depicted topless. Prince William took the actions of the paparazzi as a personal insult and filed a lawsuit against the reporters.
At the beginning of 2020, a scandalous video of Prince William’s holiday in Switzerland at the Verbier resort appeared on the YouTube video hosting channel, where the monarch was present without his wife and children in the company of the Australian model Sophie Taylor.
Prince William and Sophie Taylor
However, representatives of the royal house noted that Kate Middleton should not worry about the possible betrayal of the Duke of Cambridge. The monarch saw the top model only during several parties. Fans of the royal family noted the prince's dancing talents, but there were also critics who called William's body movements senile.
Prince William's wife - Kate Middleton
Kate Middleton was born in 1982, her parents founded a large trading company in the UK, which earned millions. Kate, like Prince William, studied at St. Andrews School, where the young people met. At first they were just friends, traveling together and studying the same subjects in college. However, then a romantic relationship began to develop between them, but due to public pressure, the young people went their separate ways after graduating from school. They met again a few years later, Kate appeared at the palace and met Queen Elizabeth. Only after the approval of the Prince's grandmother was the engagement announced.
Today, Prince William's wife, Kate Middleton, is a true example of virtue. No one has long doubted that the royal family made the right choice.
Prince William now
In the middle of the year, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge starred in the documentary film “Diana Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy”, created for the ITV channel. In an interview, Prince William told reporters that he tells Prince George and Princess Charlotte about his grandmother every night.
In 2020, it became known that Kate Middleton was expecting her third child. The wife of the Duke of Cambridge, as in previous pregnancies, did not feel well, so she was forced to cancel current affairs and meetings.
Prince William in 2017
On April 3, 2020, Kate Middleton gave birth to a son in an English clinic. The birth took place at St. Mary's Hospital; obstetricians, according to the media, vacated an entire wing for the arrival of the Duchess of Cambridge. The royal couple's third child was named Louis Arthur Charles, and the boy was given the title "His Royal Highness Louis of Cambridge." At first, the heir to the royal family will live in Kensington Palace with his brother and mother.
On May 19, 2020, Kate and William appeared together for the first time after giving birth at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. William acted as best man, and Kate was again recognized as the most elegant at the celebration. Note that the wives of the princes are on friendly terms.
Height, weight, age. How old is Prince William
There was always a lot of attention around the representatives of the royal dynasty. For many, it still remains a mystery how Great Britain was able to preserve its traditions and foundations in the modern world and society. After all, the members of the Royal Family seem to live in the past. They have many unwritten rules and responsibilities that have been maintained for several centuries. However, the majesty and inner strength of each family member makes many figuratively kneel before representatives of the royal blood. Even news in the media about royalty is not saturated with obscenity and gossip, but is purely informative.
The details of the life of the British Duke are of great interest to the public. Users are looking on the Internet not only for information about him and his wife, they are even interested in Prince William’s height, weight, age, and how old he is. The Duke of Cambridge is 35 years old today, his height is 190 cm and his weight is about 80 kg.
