New interview with William

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Some interesting snippets here. He comes across as very sensible, grounded and decent. I was slightly surprised to hear him mention Harry’s name!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15156825/Prince-William-agenda-reform-monarchy-King.html

Presumably he meant his son when he becomes King?
it’s all PR bullshit anyway.

I imagine this is happening now because C3 is indeed more ill than they are announcing. I imagine he will either step aside or be gone within 12m. I imagine William will talk about 'modernisation' but continue Brand Windsor.

Im sorry to hear about your own health.

However I very much doubt KC will step aside for health reasons. Like his mother he will work to the end.
There might be the odd thing that William will do, if he can't make it but I doubt there will be any formal retirement.

If it was 2040, Charles has been on the throne for a while and Williams kids were adults then maybe KC would retire in some form but absolutely not in the current circumstances

I think its fairly obvious KC has some sort of terminal cancer.

H said his Dad has to be the priority / focus for the next year or words to that effect (and is shitting himself as he realises Big Brother his more of the reins than he thought)

I think you interpreted it just fine, Thedom, but also feel that it's just words and what he'll actually do remains to be seen

I did wonder, though, if his comments about "change" reflected any frustration at the way things are being handled now, given that he's not yet in a position to call all the shots

I’m sorry to say but Williams comments about modernising the Royal family, combined with suddenly Harry being brought back to see Charles, does feel like Charles is sicker than we’ve been told.

Harry was BROUGHT BACK to see Charles? Where was this reported?

Here we go again with the complicated stories and gossiping about people's health.

Maybe we should start with the monarch's own sons' agenda.

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On you go then....

He's really cute with his beard 😃

I think they're great ambassadors for the UK, they definitely took one for the team having to entertain Trump . . .

I don't think he'll step aside, and I don't think he's destined for the longevity of his parents either. And yes, Brand Windsor will continue much the same with some PR adjustments to make loyal subjects believe they're getting great value for money.

I expect 'shaking things up' will translate to 'doing even less work than they do now'. I use the word 'work' in an extremely loose sense.

William has already done this with the Duchy of Cornwall. He employed a CEO to carry on from his dad.

Charles has a reputation for being a workaholic, William doesn’t.

I can see William trying to do things differently when he becomes King. The key point is if he will listen to feedback if the innovations don't prove popular. He has both listened and not listened in the past so it will be interesting to see what happens.

Modernising the monarchy has to be looked at in context of when Charles was talking about this in the late 80s, early 90s. Not to take away from any of them, but the Kents and the Gloucesters were the late Queen’s cousins. All HRHs, living in KP or wherever and getting the sovereign grant/civil list. Only didn’t happen to Charles’ cousins because it was their mother who was royal. Note how Andrew was reportedly unhappy because of those privileges being taken away from his daughters, and how Edward and Sophie purposefully didn’t style their children as HRH and there’s no suggestion Louise is exercising the option. So it has changed, otherwise the York and Edinburgh children would be working royals (or expecting to be) and we’d be directly funding them.

I know this doesn’t directly tackle the wider questions of what they do, are they worth it etc but it has changed in the past 30 or so years and Charles likely had an influence on that. And with the older generation passing and the smaller cohort of HRHs when William accedes, he may well have more options.

William is from a completely different era to Charles (obviously) social media didn't exist when Charles was younger. He must be more in tune with how the world works today and I hope he does listen to feedback and does things differently.

Eugene Levy is Canadian, not American.

Never heard of him but it makes a whole lot more sense that hes Canadian (part of the commonwealth) rather than American.

For anyone who can't watch it The Times T2 magazine has an extensive piece on the programme. Worth a read, if anyone can archive here?

I hope you are not taking the piss out of the people from Hull with that comment.

Hm how? It took media articles for them to reduce or discount what they charge the public services in rent? Or whatever it was...remmeber that? Well why didnt they do that themselves without public pressure or articles being needed?

Why not pay prlper taxes then so the whole country can benefit with the extra money being paid in instead of the people they want to help being hammered again and again? Oh wait.....

Its literally lip service to appease people

His comment about fitting his workload around school hours just goes to show how out of touch he is. Most families have to work long hours. He only works the equivalent of 25 full days per year and gets paid millions. He wants less media intrusions so that means more secrecy around their finances and no Freedom of Information requests. Very sycophantic interviewing with no mention of Andrew and Fergie or the Duchy rogue landlords controversy. It was more like spin from the palace press office. People seem to fall for this manipulation and say things like “oh he seems so normal, just like a real human”. Well he is a real human who is given vast amounts of tax payers’ money for doing not much at all.