Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Prince William was born in St Mary’s Hospital, London, on 21 June 1982. He is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. William was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School and Eton College. He earned a Scottish Master of Arts degree majoring in geography at the University of St Andrews.
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Prince William was born in St Mary’s Hospital, London, on 21 June 1982. He is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. William was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School and Eton College. He earned a Scottish Master of Arts degree majoring in geography at the University of St Andrews. He served as a full-time pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance from July 2015 for two years. In 2011, Prince William was made Duke of Cambridge preceding his marriage to Catherine Middleton. The couple have three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. William holds patronages within 30 organisations, and undertakes projects through The Royal Foundation, revolving around mental health, conservation, and young people. In December 2014, he founded the United for Wildlife initiative, which aims to reduce worldwide illegal wildlife trade. In April 2016, the Cambridges and Prince Harry initiated the mental health awareness campaign \”Heads Together\” to encourage people to open up about their mental health issues. In October 2020, William launched the Earthshot Prize, a £50 million initiative to incentivise environmental solutions over the next decade. His parents divorced in 1996. William accompanied his father, brother, paternal grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and his maternal uncle Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, at his mother’s funeral. William and Harry walked behind the funeral cortège from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey. He was baptised by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on 4 August, the 82nd birthday of his paternal great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
William took a gap year, during which he took part in British Army training exercises in Belize, Chile, and for ten weeks taught children in southern Africa. As part of the programme, he lived with other young children in the town of Raleigh, Tortelel, in southern Chile. He took up water polo and continued to play football, captaining his house team. Known informally as \”Wills\” within the family, William was nicknamed ‘Wombat’ by his mother, who wished him and his younger brother, Harry, to obtain broader life experiences than those usually available to royal children. William is not an soap star; nor a football hero: he is perhaps perhaps the most important and sometimes painful part of his life, he will grow up and become a man and a man of the people. He has a brother, Prince Harry, and a sister, Princess Beatrice. His father, Prince Charles, waited until his sons awoke the following morning to tell them about their mother’s death. William’s grandfather, father, two uncles, and two cousins all attended Gordonstoun, which William’s father and Diana’s father both attended. The decision to place William in Eton went against the family tradition of sending royal children toGordonstoun. The royal family and the tabloid press agreed William would be allowed to study in exchange for free updates about his life.
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