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Jun 21, 2022 · Prince William, second in line to the throne, is celebrating his 40th birthday. The father-of-three has been in the royal spotlight from the moment he was born. The public's first glimpse of ...
Jun 21, 2022 · The Duke of Cambridge is 40. Prince William’s birthday falls on 21 June, and this year he is marking his four-decade milestone. His 40th birthday comes just days after the Cambridge’s...
- Prince William Is Born
- Preparing to Be A Big Brother
- Royal Family Vacation
- Early Wedding Duties
- Skiing Holiday with Princess Diana
- First Day at Eton
- The Death of Princess Diana
- Later School Days
- Post-Eton Gap Year
- Celebrating The Queen
Prince Charles and the late Princess Dianawelcomed their first child, Prince William, on June 21, 1982. A day later, his mother cradled him as she and her husband left the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital — where William’s children would one day be born.
Shortly before his second birthday, William sported adorable blue dungarees as he posed for this photo with his parents at Kensington Palace in London. At the time, Diana was six months pregnant with her second son, Prince Harry.
William traveled with his parents from a very young age. In April 1985, not long before his third birthday, he and Harry were photographed on board the Royal Yacht Britannia during a trip to Venice, Italy.
At age 6, Prince William was a page boy at the wedding of Camilla Dunne and Rupert Soames in Hereford, England. He sported pink suspenders and seemed a little bemused by the antics of his fellow page boys and flower girls.
William, 8, and Harry, 6, posed with their mother during a skiing holiday in Lech, Austria, on April 9, 1991. This was reportedly William and Harry’s first time skiing.
William, 13, sported a suit and tie as he arrived for his first day at the prestigious Eton College on Sept. 6, 1995. Before Eton, he attended the Ludgrove School, a prep school for boys aged 8 to 13.
William was 15 years old when his mother died in a car accident on Aug. 31, 1997. He and Harry, who was 12 at the time, were photographed at her funeral in London a week later. In a 2021 speech, William opened upabout the “dark days of grief” that followed his mother’s death.
William, seen here at age 18, was a prefect at Eton and was apparently also a member of the Eton Society, also known as “Pop.” Members of that elite society of prefects were encouraged to wear colorful waistcoats of their own design, according to the luxury British gentleman’s retailer New & Lingwood.
The prince took a gap year between finishing Eton and beginning university. He spent part of that year as a volunteer with the adventure charity Raleigh International in Chile, where he used logs to construct walkways.
In June 2003, while still a student at University of St Andrews in Scotland, 20-year-old Prince William posed for a photo that included three generations of the royal family: his grandparents, Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip, and his father, Prince Charles. The photo marked the 50th anniversary of the queen’s coronation.
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Sep 28, 2022 · Prince William poses for a photo with a well-wisher as he and Princess Kate of Wales view floral tributes left by crowds in memory of Queen Elizabeth II, at the royal Sandringham estate in...
Jun 20, 2022 · It has issued three new photographs of Prince William to mark the occasion - but if you were expecting official, formal royal portraits, then think again. The three previously unseen images...
Jun 21, 2022 · Clarence House's account shared photographs of Charles holding newborn William outside the Lindo Wing, the pair on a ski-lift together, on the palace balcony with the royal family and William with his arm around Charles. In a recent article in the Big Issue, the duke talked about what his 40th birthday means to him. Read more:
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