Prince William Biography

In his youth, the heir to the British crown visited the Pancion school in the county of Berkshire, having no advantages over the rest of the students: he lived in a room with four other boys, like everyone else.

When the prince was 14 years old, his parents - then Prince Charles and the now deceased Princess Diana - divorced. He experienced this event heavily, as he was very attached to his mother. Diana raised William and his younger brother Harry as ordinary children. Thanks to their mother, they were the same as other children of their age, toys, such as video games. The choice of the Iton College, where William studied after school, was made to please his mother, although he was contrary to the royal tradition: the brother and father of Diana studied in the result, so William decided to go there.

A car accident, which Diana fell into a year later, was a terrible blow to the young man. To cope with depression, he independently decided to visit the psychoanalyst and finally quarreled with the press, to which he had a sharp hostility before. At the age of 18, the prince graduated from his studies at the Iton College. Over the next year, he trained with the British army in Belize, worked at a dairy farm in England, and also visited the countries of Africa and Latin America.

And then he entered the University of ST Andrews in Scotland. Having studied at the university, Prince William entered the Royal Military Academy, and at the end he joined the Royal Air Force, where he was serving at the moment. Even while studying at the university, the prince met his love and future wife Kate Middleton. In the year they got married.

The wedding ceremony attracted great attention to the public both in the UK and beyond. Millions of people around the world saw a television broadcast of the celebration. In m, the spouses had a son George, two years later - the daughter of Charlotte, and in M ​​- the son of Louis. In May, he became the patron saint of Mrew and the president of the royal hospital of Marsden, his mother previously held the last position.

In July, William and Harry organized a concert in memory of Princess Diana, the funds from which went to charity. In M, William became the patron of the Women in Hedge Funds charity initiatives for the next three years - before the th. Then he replaced Lord Atenboro as the fifth president of the British Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. In March, he and Katherine founded a charity fund, known today as the royal fund of the Prince and the Princess of Wales.

In the year, William made a private donation to the Thin Green Line Foundation, which provides grants to the relatives of the deceased caretakers of nature protection parks. In July, he condemned the murder of the caretaker of the South African park Anton Mzimba and demanded that the responsible sides be punished. In August, William supported the decision to imprison the American, who was imprisoned for the trading of the horns of the rhino and the ivory.

Earlier, at a conference on illegal trade in wild animals in the year, the prince called for more severe punishments and fines for poachers and smugglers. Other heroes.