{"id":129755,"date":"2020-12-09T22:21:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/will-and-kates-monarchy-casual-private-and-just-a-bit-bland\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:21:29","slug":"will-and-kates-monarchy-casual-private-and-just-a-bit-bland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/will-and-kates-monarchy-casual-private-and-just-a-bit-bland\/","title":{"rendered":"#Will and Kate’s monarchy: Casual, private and just a bit bland"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Will and Kate’s monarchy: Casual, private and just a bit bland<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The destiny of the elder son of the heir to the throne was set from birth. His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn, Baron Carrickfergus, was born on June 21, 1982. He will be the 42nd monarch in a line that dates back to William the Conqueror in 1066.<\/p>\n

But first, he will be king-in-waiting. That role still officially belongs to his father, Prince Charles, but both have, increasingly, been assuming duties assigned to their titles-to-be. It isn\u2019t a power grab: the Megxit crisis\u2014when Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, decamped to California\u2014\u201cbrought the Queen and her son and grandson very much together and focused their minds on what they would do,\u201d explains royal biographer Penny Junor. \u201cThey are working in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Queen Elizabeth II, 94, already reducing her workload and ensconced in a COVID-19 protective bubble, the two heirs to the throne and their wives, Camilla and Kate, have found themselves the leading players on the royal stage. Prince Charles, 72, has undertaken more quasi-regal duties in recent years, such as laying his mother\u2019s wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday and undertaking headline-making foreign tours\u2014including an official visit to Israel early in 2020, the first by the heir to the British throne. William, 38, has upped his responsibilities this year, launching a major environmental prize, meeting with the Ukrainian president at Buckingham Palace, buoying spirits of front-line workers during the pandemic, and giving the world a taste of how he will make his own mark in the role long held by his father.<\/p>\n

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Also in 2021, as we see more of the \u201cchanging of the guard\u201d in the House of Windsor, we will have an early picture of the future monarchy\u2014more relaxed than it is now, but as private as ever. Given their relative ages, it\u2019s William who will likely make a more significant mark, while Charles\u2019s greatest legacy will be revolutionizing the job he\u2019s had for more than 50 years: Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n

That position has no specific requirements beyond waiting until the sovereign dies. But while previous heirs whiled away the time hunting and collecting stamps, Prince Charles transformed the role by embarking on an ambitious agenda, creating the Prince\u2019s Trust (which has helped more than a million young people access education, training and jobs) and diving into myriad causes such as reviving traditional crafts in Afghanistan. Charles\u2019s vocal promotion of now-popular environmental causes earned him years of \u201cridicule and abuse,\u201d as he recalled in a documentary last year: he was 22 when he first spoke in 1970 about the problem of plastic waste in the oceans; in 1986, at a time when industrialized farming and cheap food dominated, he started switching his own agricultural lands to using organic methods. Six years later, he started a line of organic foods.<\/p>\n

As heir, Charles can voice strong opinions on hot-button topics such as youth unemployment, the environment and even modern architecture. \u201cIf it\u2019s meddling to worry about the inner cities as I did 40 years ago and what was happ<\/a>ening or not happening there\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009if that\u2019s meddling, I\u2019m very proud of it,\u201d he said in 2018. When asked whether he\u2019d continue to voice those opinions when his role is upgraded to politically neutral monarch, he replied: \u201cI\u2019m not that stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, as William begins to play a more prominent role in his family\u2019s firm, he has taken up some of the same causes as his father. In particular, the two princes have a shared love for the natural world, sustainability and the future of the planet. Conservation\u2014especially stopping the illegal wildlife trade from wiping out species\u2014is a major cause for William, who said in a recent documentary, Prince William: A Planet for Us All<\/i>: \u201cI am not willing to look my children in the eye and say that we were the generation that let this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

William also recently announced his newest and potentially most groundbreaking project, the Earthshot Prize. The prince was inspired by the technology<\/a> created by president John F. Kennedy\u2019s mission to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. In a TED Talk about the competition, William explained that mankind needs earthshots that \u201charness that same spirit of human ingenuity and purpose and turn it with laser-sharp focus and urgency on the most pressing challenge we have ever faced\u2014repairing our planet.\u201d Starting in 2021, five $1.7-million prizes will be handed out annually for the next decade for solutions to our environmental problems.<\/p>\n

In addition to sharing an affinity for environmental causes, William and Charles have similar personality traits. They can both be self-deprecating in public and able to laugh at themselves. When celebrating his 70th birthday, Charles quipped that aging is \u201crather like indigestion\u2014many happy returns are not quite the same thing as you get older,\u201d while his balding son once apologized to a hairdresser, saying, \u201cI can\u2019t give you much business.\u201d<\/p>\n

But they are also stubborn men, sometimes overly confident in their abilities and causes; Charles has expressed his bafflement that farmers are slow to switch to organic agriculture, while William has used his charm to bluff his way through royal engagements, rather than reading dry briefing documents. And they didn\u2019t always understand each other\u2019s perspective, or choices. \u201cWilliam found his father a bit eccentric,\u201d says Junor. Still, as the son matured, married and had children, he became more like his father than anyone could have imagined. He even has a similar receding hairline.<\/p>\n

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The Cambridges are intensely private, and glimpses of their children, like these photos taken of a meeting with Sir David Attenborough (left), spark delight in the public when shared (Kensington Palace\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Of course, there are differences between father and son. William is \u201cfar much more cautious\u201d than Charles, Junor says, and \u201ccares more to be in step\u201d with society and its norms. He is of the times, not ahead of them, as Charles has often been. Also, William \u201cis careful not to give away too much of his personality\u201d like the Queen, who is famously reserved, while Charles gave author Jonathan Dimbleby unfettered access to his letters and diaries for a no-holds-barred biography in the midst of his marital troubles in the 1990s. Even the glimpses of royal houses shown on pandemic videos reflect these differences: the backgrounds in Charles and Camilla\u2019s videos showcase overflowing bookcases and desks crowded with knickknacks and family photos, while those of William and Kate usually feature anonymous backgrounds\u2014a closed door here, a white wall there. William\u2019s craving for privacy can also be seen in how he and Charles handled their COVID-19 infections. While Charles made his diagnosis public, his son concealed his own infection, which was so serious that he reportedly \u201cstruggled to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince Charles is expected to slim down the size of the working royal family to its most important members, but beyond this, the senior citizen prince won\u2019t have much time to place his mark on an institution that evolves with slow deliberation. And William will likely expect only subtle changes when his turn comes, \u00e0 la Elizabeth\u2014such as the professionalization of the royal household in the 1980s and \u201990s\u2014rather than revolution behind palace walls.<\/p>\n

This conservative approach extends into William\u2019s private life. Both he and Kate are restrained when working, rarely holding hands or showing other signs of affection publicly. Kate even tamps down fashion talk by often wearing versions of the same style of dresses, coats and casualwear, while William\u2019s outfits can best be labelled bland. Like her husband (and perhaps unlike her mother-in-law, Camilla), Kate tends to choose the more careful route in life. She spent years with William before they were married, making sure his future was one that she wanted as well. As she enters her tenth year as a royal, it\u2019s also obvious that she and William\u2019s mother are completely different people: Diana was an emotionally fragile woman who actively competed with her husband to seize the spotlight and acclaim; Kate has a spine of steel practicality and openly supports her husband and his causes.<\/p>\n

In the most recent YouGov poll of royal popularity, William is at 80 per cent, behind the perennial No. 1, his grandmother. The public\u2019s love for the prince and his family was evident when William and Kate lowered the towering privacy walls they\u2019ve erected around their young children to release photos and videos of them delivering food to quarantined neighbours, applauding health-care workers, and even asking naturalist Sir David Attenborough questions about animals. Those charming images sparked delight around a world craving good news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople take [William] seriously,\u201d says Junor, who has written about both father and son. \u201cHe has earned a great deal of respect in the country\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009[William is] not chasing popularity; he\u2019s his own man, doing things his way,\u201d says the author. \u201cI think he comes across as genuine, committed and caring.\u201d And while Junor points out that these are \u201call qualities that the Prince of Wales has,\u201d William may ultimately be better suited to the job his father has been waiting for his whole life. In an institution built for unity, royals prefer to be more vanilla and less Marmite, Junor explains. That\u2019s the path chosen by the Queen, and the one William is now treading.<\/p>\n\n

This article appears in print in the January 2021 issue of<\/em> Maclean\u2019s magazine with the headline, \u201cTheir (cautious) kingdom come.\u201d Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here<\/a>.<\/em>
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