On March 17, 2023, Prince William as the outgoing Colonel of the Irish guards introduced the incoming Honorary Col, the Princess of Wales, saying: “I may be stepping aside, but in Colonel Catherine, you have a committed, focused, and incredibly loyal 11th Colonel.”
Indeed, after spending half of their lives together, William knows better than anyone how “Committed, focused and incredibly loyal” Catherine, his wife of 12 years, is and has been to him and the Monarchy. He, better than anyone, knows all she overcame to earn his love, admiration, and trust. And Trust and Loyalty have always been very key to William. In his 2017 interview with GQ, Alastair Campbell asked him: “Have you ever talked to people other than friends and family about your feelings?”
William replied, “No. I haven’t talked to a specialist or a doctor, but I have friends who can listen well. So family and friends… I talk to people I know and trust.”
It is quite telling that he didn’t even trust talking to a therapist for fear what he said in confidence could be sold to the press or repeated. But it is not surprising when he witnessed his mother being exploited and betrayed by “friends” and the press, which she naively thought she could control.
Childhood Trauma can break or make someone; In William’s case, it shaped and sharpened him. He learned valuable lessons: to guard his private life at all costs and be very shrewd about who he allows around him In an article, D. Larcombe explained how the Prince “maintains a close circle of friends from similar backgrounds, carefully scrutinized before being allowed in” and how William “deliberately plants small, false stories with people he does not yet know to test them”
Prince William realized early on that in his royal world and his position as heir to the throne, when you’re at the top of the pyramid, trust and loyalty are very rare coins, and finding true love is even rarer and more priceless. In the interview with Campbell, he added: “One of my rare strengths is that I can read people; I can usually tell if someone is just being nice to me and if they’re saying things for the wrong reasons. And if William tested his friends, he also tested his loves; and no one was more tested by William than Catherine in the eight years they were together.
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