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The BBC wrote an objective article (For Once) about Prince William and how he weathered this year to come back on top. Drawing similarities from 1992, his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II own "Annus Horribilis"; as there were multiple marriage breakdowns within the family and a major fire at Windsor🔥...

136,236 просмотров • 1 год назад •via X (Twitter)

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Фото профиля Royally Wales
Royally Wales1 год назад

🎯🎯 For Prince William family comes first. Wishing his family peace and calm for 2025

Фото профиля Posh Lady 🚜
Posh Lady 🚜1 год назад

Wonderful post! I hope they are somewhere beautiful for New Year. I’m looking forward to 2025 being a bit more boring and normal!!

Фото профиля Canellecitadelle
Canellecitadelle1 год назад

Yes! Boring please. Let 2025 be boring and predictable🤭

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Theroyalfamily.wcgcl 👑🇬🇧1 год назад

Hope 2025 will be a happier year for them 🙏🏻🫶🏻❤️

Фото профиля Canellecitadelle
Canellecitadelle1 год назад

...and for us All. Please Lord, I am so tired🤭😭

Фото профиля Cristi.
Cristi.1 год назад

Girl u write beautifully. They truly had a year and the greatest of all they overcome each storm with grace and kindness, holding on to each other. A lesson for the other brother to learn to b kind and not the "feel sorry for me and my wife" or " woe is me and my wife" lolzzz

Фото профиля Canellecitadelle
Canellecitadelle1 год назад

Yes they show the dignified british way: You show strength in public, you cry in private until you can get back up. And they did that as a couple. I pray the bext year bring peace for the RF and especially calm🤩

Фото профиля The Commentator USA
The Commentator USA1 год назад

🏆 Then there was, 'How do I tell my three children that Mummy is ill?'" Yes he said it. It was very painful for him because he had lost his mother and that pain is still fresh despite what people think. One of the things that helped PW was asking himself that question because he had in fact been through it. He had to summoning up how he felt, the things that were done correctly/incorrectly when he was a child and went through it. A year that clarified many things for the PPo The PPoW handled things the way they did for their children. And you did a great job on the summary. 🥰

Фото профиля Tweety Bird 🐦 🐦
Tweety Bird 🐦 🐦1 год назад

The BBC is finally finally catching up on what the public has known for a long time. Prince Wm is a faithful family man first and foremost. He's a no drama Rock of Gibraltar that others in the family can lean on. A combo of his grandparents really.

Фото профиля Knatten&Jag
Knatten&Jag1 год назад

Stability and routine for the children even while papa is going through imaginable difficult times teaches the little ones that no matter what, life will go on and they have to be resilient. Prayers that 2025 will bring health and happiness for the whole family.

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Canellecitadelle

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In his newly released interview in Brazil with Brazilian TV host Luciano Huck, Prince William answered questions about his family dynamic with Catherine and their 3 children revealing that as parents they spend a lot of time with their children: "Play dates, taxi driver, sports days, matches, playing in the garden when I can,” he said. “School run most days. I mean Catherine and I share it, but she probably does the bulk of it.”😍 Prince William already touched upon the fact that his children do not have phones. However with prince George starting secondary school, he explained: “When George moves on to secondary school, maybe he’ll have one with limited access. “We talk to him and explain why we don’t think it’s right. With full access, children end up seeing things on the internet that they shouldn’t. But with restricted access, I think it’s good for messaging.”👌 Luciano also wanted to discuss how they dealt with the cancer diagnosis as a family and William discussed how Catherine and him told their children everything about Catherine's cancer journey. He said: “Every family goes through difficult times and faces challenges together. How you deal with those moments makes all the difference. We decided to tell our children everything, both the good news and the bad. We explain to them why certain things happen and why they might feel upset.”❤️‍🩹 "Many questions might come up without answers – I think all parents go through that. There’s no rulebook for being a parent, and we chose to talk about everything.”🔥 Very interesting insight into their family dynamic and how their family unit operates as ONE Entity. The fact that they choose "open communication" as their primary vehicle of parenting proves that indeed Prince William and Catherine are raising children who are taught maturity and emotional intelligence early on. As parents we usually feel the need to protect our children by hiding the crude truth from them, especially when dealing with diagnosis such as cancer. But in William and Catherine's case, they chose to deal with it as a family and allow their children to know the truth as difficult as it was and face it together as a family. There is indeed a lot of poise and maturity in the wales' children especially Prince George and Princess Charlotte. They behave like this because they are children raised to understand the world around them as well as their role and their environment👌 One can tell these children are raised with love and surrounded by devoted parents but you can also see that they are raised with a lot of discipline and awareness of the world around them👌 William and Catherine are indeed raising mentally resilient and well-balanced children and their Parenting choices will pay off in the future especially for Prince George who is the next Heir. Being taught to deal with the reality of life, good or bad, early on and learning to face the difficulties in a calm manner and overcome it, is the right way to raise a future King called to lead🔥 On a lighter note, Prince William continue to show the Royal Rota and British Press the new rules of engagements moving forward. He will talk to a canadian actor, to a brazilian Tv host; Prince William will choose to speak to a pizza delivery man or even a uber driver BEFORE he gives any interview to the British press about his private life or Catherine's cancer😂🤣 There is a clear message that he is sending there and I wonder if they realised that when they ruthlessly attacked him and Catherine at their lowest point in 2024 when they needed their space and privacy the most; I wonder if the Rota and British press finally realise the "Ruthless protector" they woke up in William☕️ 📹 Luciano Huck via Tokkianami

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Canellecitadelle

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Canellecitadelle

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Oh the British Press and Royal Rota are fuming at being blindsided by Prince William🤭 Unlike any Heir before him, Prince William bypassed the national BBC, he bypassed the national ITV; He did not even grant this interview to any of the major British reporters or newspapers. The Palace and their sources did not even know his plans thus, there was no leaks to the Daily Mail..😏 William blindsided everyone and went on the most unlikely platform, the TV show of a Canadian actor and comedian, to discuss give his most important interview to date as Prince of Wales and discuss his plans for the Monarchy and Catherine🔥 There are two topics that William never discussed with the press: his future plans for the Monarchy AND his wife Catherine. Yet today, he discussed protecting his beloved wife and their family; as well as his plans for the institution the monarchy❤️ Apple TV got the call. Not “Fleet Street”; and Fleet Street is reeling. Prince William is very intentional and he sent a clear message to the British press, Royal Rota and palace sources that has been harassing him and his wife at every turn: He is the one in control🔥 He can work with them or find another mean. He decides, not them, not courtiers, Him. He will not be dictated by them or take any marching orders from them. He is not afraid to draw the line and make the changes he sees fit, no matter how tough the decisions🤷🏽‍♀️ This unexpected interview is a preview of what is to come. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, who was just invited to the state Banquet 2 weeks ago, knows that unlike the CEO of Netflix, he has hit the jackpot with this episode and all that money is going straight to Apple. William does not need the money, he has plenty. What he needed was the platform and Apple and their crew did an excellent job at NOT LEAKING anything until it was time to promote the show👌🏽 The Netflix CEO got two peanuts for millions of dollars; The Apple CEO got an “in” with the Future King himself and he is keeping all the money; a Tale of Kings and court Jesters..🪭 I love this scene posted by Apple TV. Prince William knew he was about to hurt a lot of feelings in the palace and the British Press and he was so relax about it, taking selfies and enjoying a Guinness; A true mastermind at heart😎 As he reiterated confidently: “I take my roles and my responsibilities seriously but it's important you don't feel they own you. You have to own them”🔥 Spoken like a man born to be King☕️ #PrinceWilliamisAKing 📹Apple TV

Canellecitadelle

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Canellecitadelle

14,927 просмотров • 1 год назад

It was just last year, that Prince William was invited to give an articulated and informed speech at the london climate week, at COP26 in Rio de Janeiro and the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco as President and founder of the Earthshot prize👌🏽 In Rio de Janeiro last year, he also gave another speech as the United for Wildlife summit as President and founder of the United for Wildlife and discussed the work done by UFW in toward that goal. Today, Prince William was invited to speak on the Innovation to Impact panel at the Olympia London Tech Week, as founder and presdident of Homewards UK, to discuss how data and technology help in preventing homelessness, alongside some of the world’s leading tech voices👌🏽 Well then, when William talks about "his work", this is his actual work OUTSIDE of being a royal. This is his professional curriculum, those 3 national and international projects that he runs successfully. And that is why it is very ignorant to compare him to other senior royals such as his Princess Anne and call him "workshy" because he does not do as many royal engagements as her. ALL Princess Anne does as work are royal engagements. However, royal engagements are NOT all William does as work🔥 On top of his royal duties and responsibilities as Heir, on top of his patronages that are common to other working royals, William has a singular professional life as Presiding over these three core initiatives, Earthshot prize, UFW and Homewards UK; He also has his responsibilities as Duke of Cornwall to run the billion pound duchy with all the problems to solve; Put that in perspective and you realise that there is a great deal of work that goes behind running all these successfully, hundreds and hundreds of employees to manage, many meetings to attend, investors to meet, innovations to keep abreast off, and numerous problems arising in all directions..🔥 Yet where Most men in his position would focus on work and neglect the family side, William has found the perfect balance where he built his busy work schedule around his children's schedule, so he can still be a present as a father and do the home school runs with his wife, and take his children on holidays as well. He also make time to enjoy some downtime with his mates and watch an Aston Villa football game.🤗 This does not describe a man who is "lazy" or "workshy". This is rather the protrait of a very disciplined, organised and intelligent man, who knows how to effectively prioritise in life so he can get everything done well and successfully. And that is the credibility that he has on the world stage🔥 #PrinceofWales

Canellecitadelle

38,813 просмотров • 25 дней назад

The man who invented modern fantasy didn't publish his first novel until he was forty-five. By that age, J.R.R. Tolkien had already built a respectable life. He was an Oxford professor, an expert in ancient languages, with a wife and four children and a settled academic career. He was exactly the kind of man who might reasonably have decided that the shape of his life was already fixed. The work he would be remembered for, he had not yet even begun... The story, which Tolkien told himself, is that one summer he was grading examination papers, when he turned a page and found that a student had left it blank. Without quite knowing why, he wrote a single sentence on it: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." He did not know what a hobbit was. He had spent years inventing languages and mythologies as a private passion, and telling stories to his own children, never imagining any of it would reach the world. But that one line began to grow. It became a story, and then a book, and in 1937, at the age of forty-five, Tolkien published The Hobbit. It was a success, and his publisher asked for a sequel. Tolkien warned them it might take some time. It took 17 years... He wrote it in the margins of a demanding full-time job, revising endlessly, doubting it often. When The Lord of the Rings was finally published, in 1954 and 1955, he was in his early sixties. That book, begun as a middle-aged professor's private side project, went on to sell well over a hundred million copies, to invent modern fantasy as we know it, and to reshape the imagination of the entire world. Tolkien already had a full and respectable life behind him. And still, the thing he is remembered for, the thing that outlived him and reached hundreds of millions of people, was something he began at forty-five, at an age when it would have been the easiest thing in the world to tell himself he had already missed his chance. He didn't. It's never as late as it feels.

James Lucas

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An interesting Article by Hannah Furness for the Telegraph giving a bit of background story about today’s last day of events. During his last day in Saudi Arabia , Prince William toured the Sharaan Nature Reserve in the east of the country and was asked to perform the classic royal duty of planting a tree. When offered Gardening gloves to plant the acacia tree, Prince William politely declined saying: “I like to get my hands dirty.”👌🏽☺️ Something that he indeed shares with his wife Catherine who, last July 2025, took part in planting the first of the "Catherine’s Rose" plants, the rose dedicated to her, during a visit to the RHS Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital. When offered golves, she declined as well and happily got her bare hands in the sand to plant the rose❤️ Hannah further reported that “After three stops in different parts of the nature reserve, Prince William had lunch with Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud, the minister for culture, one of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s inner circle, and described as one of the most powerful men in the Kingdom. Apparently, Prince Badr enjoyed his lunch with the Prince of Wales so much so, that he asked that their lunch time be extended. So the Prince of Wales ended up running 40 minutes behind schedule🔥 The schedule had to be further reorganised when Prince Badr decided he wanted to personally accompany Prince William and give him a tour of his “favorite areas” of the old town of AlUla. Hannah writes: “By the time they eventually arrived, the royal schedule had been torn up and redrawn.” “The afternoon in the Old Town was hastily rearranged. Aides and protection officers marched quickly across town, weaving through a rabbit-warren of mud-brick houses with heavy wooden doors and shaded walkways, to find two princes dropped off on the long Incense Road and already happily in conversation.”🤭 This warm hospitality by the Saudi royals is not so surprising when the Ties between the two royal families are almost 100 years old and way more enduring than any political leader could achieve. So the impromptu tour saw both princes walk through the town, visit a library and the marketplace before Prince William rushed to catch up on the schedule and departed for to catch a RAF get home. Well and so, Prince William was tasked with “a charm offensive” of the leaders of Saudi Arabia in order to secure the diplomatic relations and help bring an economic deal worth billions to the UK government to completion🔥 Well, Prince William reportedly spent 3 hours in private talk with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who gave him a private tour of the historical UNESCO World Heritage Site, At-Turaif. And he then spent an extended lunch with Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al Saud – the minister for culture Who gave him a personal tour of AlUla👌🏽 So how successful was he in sealing the deal? The next few months will tell, however, the article reports that: “As Prince William left Saudi Arabia, the governments announced a new partnership to make 2029 the Saudi-UK Year of Culture.” “And there is now a house named after him, The “Prince of Wales House” in AlUla☺️ #PrinceofWales

Canellecitadelle

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Issues of paternity have shaped our society for generations, especially in Zimbabwe. They did not start today. I remember going to a funeral with my father in the 1990s, and as we sat around the fire the men began sharing stories. One of them has stayed with me ever since. A Zimbabwean doctor had married a nurse, and they struggled to have children. As usual, when there is no child, the blame was placed on the woman. She went to see her own doctor, who told her plainly that she was not the problem, and advised her to bring her husband for testing. The husband refused, as many Zimbabwean men tend to do. Their marriage eventually collapsed, with the man insisting he could not be the problem because he had a child with another woman before marrying the nurse. That woman, he said, was also a doctor, and he was raising that child. After the divorce, the nurse remarried another doctor, and she immediately fell pregnant. Because it was a tight medical community, the whole situation became a talking point. The ex-husband had loudly declared that his former wife was barren, yet here she was having one child after another, three in total, with her new husband. Meanwhile, the ex-husband remarried, and again there were no children. One day the ex-husband and his former wife met at a gathering. During a casual conversation, as people who once knew each other, she told him directly that he was raising a child who was not his. She told him that he had no capacity to father a child and that if he finally went for tests, he would discover the truth. She reminded him how he had insulted her and her parents, and how he had refused to listen. The revelation shook him. He went for tests, and it was confirmed that he was the problem. He had spent seventeen years looking after a child who was not his. The moral of the story is simple, and I always stress this when mentoring young people. When in doubt, check. In fact, even without doubt, check. A DNA test at birth saves you from future heartbreak. Many men are raising children who are not theirs. Some women know exactly what they are doing. Others genuinely do not know because their relationships overlapped before they settled down. In those cases, even the woman cannot be sure who the father is. So when you have a child, get a DNA test. If you ask for one and a woman becomes defensive or resistant, that is a major red flag. At that point, the test is no longer optional, it is necessary. That is the reality of life today. As they say, trust is beautiful, but DNA is confirmation. In this life we live, hope is not a strategy when it comes to your children, so test your child and protect your future, as the saying goes. I have DNA stories that I could share for a whole year. If compulsory DNA testing was demanded of all of us today, you will be shocked by what will come out. This brother in the video is now going through denial. He has been told the truth, but he is still in shock, which is why he is asking for silly things from this woman. It is hard for any man to discover that the child he believed was his belongs to another man. That is why DNA testing is a necessity and why it should be compulsory.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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