“The shouting rows he had with Prince Charles over what he would and would not do for the Crown sent maids, staffers, and at times family members scurrying for cover. Then there was the occasional angry outburst. Or worse, he remained silent, burying his feelings so that he could function both as a pilot and a senior member of the royal family.

“There were times, Kate confided to a trusted friend since childhood, that William came home to Anmer Hall and wept when he told the stories of what he’d seen that day. “For two years, William had secretly been sinking into a deep well of depression as he spent 12-hour days airlifting the victims of heart attacks, strokes, falls, workplace accidents, suicides, and horrific car crashes to hospital emergency rooms. Prince William was impacted by his job as an air ambulance pilot. However, that was far – FAR – from the whole truth and a new book has claimed that William in fact suffered from “deep” depression during this time, with things getting to such an acute stage that Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge held an “intervention” and had even discussed with Prince Harry whether her husband could ever contemplate taking his own life.

Unlike his monarchical forebears, who spent their pre-throne years carousing through the best brothels of Paris (King Edward VII) or indulging in a blitzkrieg of a romance with a married woman (King Edward VIII) or even buggering off to Malta to play hausfrau (the Queen), William, once he hit his 20s went out and actually found gainful employment.įirst he worked as a search and rescue pilot in northern Wales and then later, he took a job as an air ambulance pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance in Norfolk.Īll seemed fine and dandy and looked largely like PR manna from heaven for Buckingham Palace’s mandarins: Here was an heir to the throne dashing about saving lives, every day.

You know, the sort of thing that comes with annoying colleagues and quibbles about entitlements and chipped mugs of Nescafe. In 2015, Prince William gamely posed for some truly historic photos: A future King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland working.

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