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Prince William (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KG KT PC
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Prince William (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KG KT PC

HRH Prince William A. Mountbatten-Windsor KG KT PC formerly Windsor
Born 1980s.
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Biography

Note: In 1960, the Queen and Prince Philip decided that all their direct descendants should bear the name 'Mountbatten-Windsor' [1]
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Prince William (Windsor) Mountbatten-Windsor KG KT PC is a member of the House of Windsor.

Prince William was born in London on 21 June 1982. He is the oldest son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales. [2] He is heir to the thrones of the Commonwealth, after his father. He was baptised on 4 August.

Prince William accompanied his parents on many overseas visits, the first (to Australia) being when he was only 9 months old. [3] However, his mother, Princess Diana, wanted to give William and his brother, Harry, as near 'normal' a childhood as possible, seeing and experiencing things most royal children wouldn't: going to Disneyworld, McDonalds, and shelters for the homeless.

William's parents (Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales) divorced in 1996, when William was 14. His mother was killed in a car accident on 31 August 1997 in Paris, France, and there was a national outpouring of grief. William and Harry walked behind the coffin as part of the funeral procession from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey. [4]

Prince William attended Eton College, even though traditionally male royal children attended Gordonstoun in Scotland. The British press agreed to leave him alone as he grew and studied: "Prince William is not an institution; nor a soap star; nor a football hero. He is a boy: in the next few years, perhaps the most important and sometimes painful part of his life, he will grow up and become a man." Press Complaints Commission.

After he completed his studies, William took a 'gap year' (a year off between school and university), working with the British Army in Belize (Central America), visited Africa (where he taught himself Swahili), and taught in Southern Chile. [5]

Beginning in 2001, Prince William attended the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he studied Art History, later changing to Geography. His dissertation was on the coral reefs of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean. It was at university that he met his future bride, Catherine Middleton.

After university, Prince William studied as an intern in land management, studied banking, and agricultural management. [6] This was to prepare him for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall when his father becomes king. [7]

Prince William in a
Sea King helicopter
(RAF Search and Rescue)

From 2006 he was enrolled in the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and became "Lieutenant Wales", training for the post of troop commander in an armoured reconnaissance unit. It was obvious that he was unlikely to see combat, as he is so close to inheriting the throne, so Prince William trained with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a flight officer. Prince William trained as a helicopter pilot from 2009 and joined the RAF's "Search and Rescue Force".

He has what he calls a "Harry Potter scar", received when a classmate accidentally hit him with a golf club, fracturing his skull. Prince William calls it that "because it glows sometimes and some people notice it—other times they don't notice it at all". [8]

2011 wedding

William married Catherine Middleton on 29 April 2011 in Westminster. The televised wedding took place in Westminster Abbey, London; numbers of watchers ranged from 300 million to two billion. [9]

In 2014, Prince William began a full-time role as a pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA). He donated his entire salary to the EAAA charity. [10] He left the EAAA in 2017 to become a full-time proxy for Queen Elizabeth II, carrying out her royal duties.

His Royal Highness is patron of many charities, including Centrepoint (assistance for the homeless), "The Passage" (homelessness charity), and the Tusk Trust (wildlife conservation). He is also the president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and has led "Heads Together", a campaign to destigmatise opinions on mental health. "Heads Up" is a subsequent campaign using football to achieve this (Prince William has been President of the English Football Association since 2006), and "Shout", a text messaging service for those experiencing mental health issues. The "National Emergencies Trust" helps charities during the coronavirus pandemic.

Prince William, his wife and three children officially reside at Kensington Palace.[11] Prince William and his wife have asked that the press respect their privacy - and that of their children - when they are "off duty". [12]

Sources

  1. ↑ Royal Name Change on royal.uk
  2. ↑ Birth: The London Gazette. 21 June 1982. page 8215
  3. ↑ "The royal couple's 1983 tour of Australia and New Zealand", Flora Carr, Radio Times
  4. ↑ Diana's funeral watched by millions BBC On This Day
  5. ↑ "Rugged Prince Scores PR Triumph", BBC News
  6. ↑ "Prince William begins agriculture course at Cambridge", BBC News 2014
  7. ↑ "Why Prince William is right to go back to school", Victoria Arbiter, CNN
  8. ↑ "Prince William has 'Harry Potter' scar from golf accident", Andrew Pierce, The Telegraph, 2009
  9. ↑ "2 billion tune in to Royal Wedding", AFP, news.com.au
  10. ↑ "Prince William to join East Anglian Air Ambulance", BBC News
  11. ↑ Kensington Palace Royal.uk
  12. ↑ Privacy: princeofwales.gov.uk

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Nathan Kennedy
Why do William and Harry have "No children" checked, when they have children?
posted by Nathan Kennedy
Haywood-41 Ros Haywood
WikiTree's policy on living children is "A profile for a child under 13 may be created, but only by a parent and legal guardian. Other family members on the Trusted List may edit the profile as long as it is supervised and managed by the parent."

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Children_on_WikiTree

posted by Ros Haywood
Nathan Kennedy
That's fine, but that wasn't my question. I wasn't asking why the children don't have profiles, rather, why William and Harry's profiles have the "No children" box checked, when they do have children.

It might be as simple as the children's profiles were deleted, changing the "No more children" box into a "No children" box, and rendering it prospectively incorrect. Seems like this should be fixed.

posted by Nathan Kennedy
Haywood-41 Ros Haywood
If that box is unchecked, all you will see is [children unknown]. Isn't it better not to have anything showing at all? As a side note: may I ask how you are able to see which checkboxes have been checked? since the Edit tab should not be available to you.
posted by Ros Haywood
Nathan Kennedy
Ros; the purpose of that checkbox is to indicate that all of the person's children are linked on WikiTree, meaning no children if none are linked. So I don't think it is better to have that box incorrect.

It's visible in the "descendants" view from ancestors' profiles. True it is not highly visible and is less likely to lead to confusion in these high profile biographies, but I think these high-visibility profiles should be maintained correctly as an example for elsewhere, where an incorrect checkbox could lead to faulty conclusions.

posted by Nathan Kennedy
Fitz-Henry-9 Jo Fitz-Henry
Nathan, the profiles for both Princes William and Harry have no child profiles created rather than the "no children" box ticked as per the Wikitree guidelines which Ros has quoted. If you wish to dispute this further, you can raise this in G2G where the Wikitree Team can see your concerns.

Jo, England Project managed profiles coordinator

posted by Jo Fitz-Henry
Nathan Kennedy
Jo, it looks to me like Ros just made that change to William’s profile in this edit that you thanked her for, in any event it changed since my initial comment and Harry’s profile is still marked “No children.” If that’s not the case then there is a technical glitch in the display but I don’t think so.
posted by Nathan Kennedy
edited by Nathan Kennedy

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