TWO VERY SPECIAL WOMEN SHAPED UK FUTURE KING

The future king was shaped by two very special women in his life.  First there was his mother Princess Diana, who came from a broken home. 

Her parents were divorced and her mother lost the custody of her children. Diana was only six yeas old and consequently believed her mother didn’t want her.

That planted the seed, to bring her sons up as ‘normal’ as possible and give them all the love, kisses and cuddles she never got. She ignored the royal handbook how to raise children. Surprisingly even Prince Charles was all for it because he was brought up by nannies and didn’t see his parents some times for long period when they had to tour the Commonwealth or were on other overseas trips.

Diana made sure her sons did normal things like going to theme parks, cinemas, and McDonalds and all the time telling them “Boys, there is life outside these palace walls.” It has to be mentioned that till such time the Royal family lived an on a pedestal and apart from parade were never seen amongst the crowd. Princess Diana was way ahead of her time and broken it all down. She used her name and position to influence politician, fought for charities and good courses. She handed it down to her sons and they do an enormous good work in her name now.

She also kept a close relationship with the Queen because she strongly believed she would be a better person, then Charles, to prepare Prince William to become King.

In her famous interview with Panorama in 1995 Diana admitted that she took Prince William and Prince Harry to see homelessness projects, also to see dying aids patients although she told them it was cancer. She added further that she took them to all sort of areas where she was sure any one at that age in the family never been before.

She said: “They have the knowledge – they may never use it, but the seed is there, and I hope it will grow because knowledge is power. I want to have them an understanding of people’s emotions, people’s insecurities, people’s distress and people’s hopes and dreams.

“I would like a monarchy that has more contact with its people.”

But in spite of William learning from his mother of her compassion and empathy he also had to experience his mother’s battle with depression and bulimia. He saw the battles and then the bitter divorce. William and Harry also saw their mother bitter tears.

From the age of 13 he started schooling in Eton and endured the rumours of his mother’s affairs with England rugby captain Will Carling and the Panorama interview. On top of that came the traumatic death of his mother in a Paris car crash. Prince William was 15 and Prince Harry 12. Not only had they to cope with such a tremendous loss but in the public eye. One can’t imagine what if cost them to walk behind their mother’s coffin especially at that age.

Prince William in his grief drew on his mother’s legacy of compassion and it must have been a comfort to know how much the public grieved over his mother’s death. Whatever, her problems were she always touched their hearts and millions loved her for that.

Prince William decided that he would one day continue her work and fulfil her legacy to make her proud of him. William started to visit hospitals secretly as his mother done and comfort a sick child. Held hands with pensioners and in his gap year he was cleaning toilets in Chile.

After the entire dramatic scenes William witnessed he later on wondered if he ever will find true love and a family life. He was very cautious and shy. When he met Kate a commoner studying at the same University William took a long time to commit himself. Also, Kate highly intelligent had to think about to marry into the Royal family and take on a very public role.

Kate in many ways is right the opposite from Diana apart for the warmth and compassion. Diana admitted herself that she did not pass one 0 level and called herself as thick as two planks of wood.

Diana hated sport while Kate loves sports and got involved in many sporty activities in her student’s days.  Kate also gets involved with William’s love for the great outdoor. Diana hated the royals’ hunting, shooting and fishing at Balmorals and Sandringham. 

Diana loved acting silly and had a good giggle with the boys. She could laugh hysterically and uncontrollable about something, the boys admitted.

Kate is more an anchor to William which he needed. He also loves Kate’s family life which he missed out on and goes there to spend time with them, washes up or watches TV. He loves the plain and ordinary life like his mother and so does Kate.

Although Prince Williams was born and destined to be King but he is very much down to earth with which he fulfils his mother’s legacy and she must be smiling down on him. She was also smiling down on them when Prince William and Kate got married as she knew Kate is the perfect girl for him. After all and at the end Princess Diana managed to change the Monarchy and will be making them in a more down-to-earth Royal family to reach their people.