New interview with William

[elprup]

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

He has a 2:1 from St Andrews ! Yes , he is bright .

In context, it was a part of the conversation where Eugene Levy asked specifically about what William thinks about his son becoming King. So he was talking about how the role itself could develop and what he might be handing over in the specific role to George.

My parents had a horrific split in my early teens, so I was a little older than William but I share similar battle scars and painful memories. And his parents divorce was media fodder across the world. I can also share his belief in having to do better with your own kids. He strikes me as just as troubled as Harry is but William has got the intelligence to look for a solution instead of just throwing his toys out of the pram. He's faced losing his wife and his father over the last 18 months and I don't believe the word "recovery" has ever been used about Charles. Which makes me think he's having palliative as opposed to curative treatment. I think he comes across as a decent man born into the strangest of existences and is just doing his best to be a good father/husband. I'm OK with him putting that role at the top of the list while he can.

Maybe a CEO would provide an good comparison

I've seen this comparison a few times recently but don't think it holds water.

Most CEO's will have spent their careers climbing the greasy pole either in their own company or in a related business and will have proved their skills and worth along the way.

W has simply dropped into the job by virtue of being born to the right parents. A royal Buggins' turn as it were.

He may have the right skills for it (hard to tell) but even if he didn't he can't be either sacked or moved on yet will continue to draw enormous sums into his personal coffers regardless.

Nothing about which to bite, I'm afraid.

But now in my turn, I will bite. What do you think I was implying?

I'm sure he has some brains, but honestly what University esp St. Andrews is going to mark the future King down, come on.....

William has the highest academic qualifications - he got A,B and C grades at A level and a 2:1 in Geography from St Andrews

Charles got a B and C at A level and a 2:2 in Archaeology & Anthropology from Cambridge

The Queen never attended school and took no formal exams - she was home educated by governesses and tutors

Why “ especially St Andrews”?

Not sure what you mean by "esp St Andrews" - it's one of the top Universities in Scotland and ranked among the top 100 universities in the World.

The British royal family has no great academic tradition. King Charles was the first monarch to attend school and the first to graduate university.

No aspersions cast on St. A's, it's just where W studied.

Sorry but that doesn’t make sense ! Are you saying another university might have failed him ?

HMQ was also tutored by some of the Eton teachers.
One of the things that I heard during the obituaries after she died.

Is this a joke post?

My DCs got higher grades than that at Alevels and Uni .Russell group (but coming from state school,) as did my best friends kids (ditto state school)
You cannot be serious!

Does that make them better people? Harry scraped through his A levels by cheating and did not get to university so he is way thicker than your kids!

By all accounts, Prince Philip was quite bright and also something of an intellectual. His grandmother, Victoria, was major influence on him growing up, and she had a reputation for being very intelligent as well as intellectual.

There is a difference. I think that William is bright but not particularly interested in the life of the mind, so not intellectual. I think the same is true of the late Queen. I think Philip and Charles, for all their differences, are similar in being bright and also having intellectual interests.

I am just questioning a poster who is making out any of them including William are bright!

Obviously not

I think that William is bright but not particularly interested in the life of the mind, so not intellectual

I would say not particularly bright and certainly not interested in the arts, culture, any of it. He loves footie that's about it. What a waste when he has everything at his fingertips. Sad really when there are so many culturally and intellectually wonderful people who would give anything for his opportunities

Why would it be a joke? William’s academic qualifications are the highest - Charles got two A levels at lower grades and the Queen didn’t have any. Saying that William’s qualifications are higher than his father’s or grandmother’s is not the same as saying he is bright.

I find the majority of the replies on this thread refreshing.

Presumably the younger generation who are in and around William's age (give or take ten years) are more critical thinkers than the traditional royalists and are not going to be bow their heads and curtesy to the little boy they watched heading to nursery in little red shoes.

I think the age of unquestioning devotion to the royal family has gone.

His Grandmother? I thought he was more raised by his sisters and mountbatten?
Particularly the sister who was killed. I don't recall his Grandmother getting much of a mention

Long gone here in Wales - hence no investiture for William after what happened the last time 😬
(That was 56 years ago, so questioning the idea of royalty is nothing new.)

Interesting timing that between this interview and the Sky News reporter supposedly shadowing him, the PR machine is in full swing covering all excuses for doing so little, his usual spiel about shaking things up, his school runs etc. They are really ramping up the PR.

What do you mean? - William has the highest A level grades of the royal family what are you disputing?

Of course few royals went to school or University - George V and George VI both joined the navy at the age of 12.

Also to distract from Andrew and Fergie no doubt. Come look over here....see we have good people in the royal family...

@RitaIncognita
Ok sorry I doubted you! I hadnt realsied he was close to his Maternal Grandmother, who was married to a Mountbatten.
And Uncle Dickie - Lord Mountbatten was also his Granny's son.
You also threw me a wee bit with the Victoria name I was thinking surely thats his Great Granny and not alive as the same time as him.

And just to make life complicated when I was looking for a Mountbatten Family tree, they all change names and Dickie is a version of Nicolas, nothing to do with a Richard that I was looking for and it was also the last of a bunch of middle names. 🤯

Guiness must be thrilled with Eugene drinking a pint! You couldn’t pay for that publicty!