How to Be A Prince (51 of 65)

How to Be A Prince

Doing Good works has become such an essential part of royal duties today that William can't really avoid it.
He will end up doing a lot more charity work because there aren't that many royals around these days they're spread a bit thin and he's a popular young man.
All the royal family are involved with charities and Williams parents were both strong role models for this kind of work.
l think in this day and age that's what we want from a Prince of Wales, you know l admire Charles now for breaking free from all those shackles of the royal family for all this time and really sticking his neck out on things like GM foods and you know atrocities he sees being put up in the name of architecture.
So l think William will make some controversial choices of where to lay his patronage and l hope he does.

Whatever role William finally decides on just being a Prince is an expensive business.
If he has to wait 30 Years to be King who's going to foot the bill?
Until the last few years it was taken for granted that the civil list would pay for the privileged lifestyles of the entire royal family.
They didn't even have to think about money.
Money for Prince Charles and the older generations of the royal family has been something, if not an irrelevance, certainly part of the theatre of their lives, l mean after all you can't take money very seriously when there's a picture of your mother on the notes and on the coins and you know that your head is going to be there one day.
So you have a very different perception of money to the rest of us.
Prince Charles has his own separate source of income which William will inherit when he becomes heir to the throne.