Most men have to face up the reality of going bald eventually – even future kings. It’s no secret that Prince William has been facing thinning locks for quite some time. Apparently he isn’t too sensitive about it though, with wife Kate Middleton teasing him about his predicament.
Prince William “had a good sense of humor” about his wife Kate Middleton’s laughing
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King Charles‘ former butler Grant Harrold has written a memoir, and he is spilling plenty of tea. While the latest excerpts aren’t exactly earth-shatteringly juicy, they do provide a nice glimpse into the relationship between William and Kate.
In his new book, the former Buckingham Palace staffer says that he accidentally put his foot in his mouth by mentioning balding. But William and Kate’s reactions offered a glimpse into their playful dynamic.
In a passage from The Royal Butler: My Remarkable Life of Royal Service obtained by US Weekly, Grant writes: “I said that surely the worst thing about aging was losing your hair and going bald. Kate started sniggering and William gave me a look and said, ‘Thanks for that.’ It hadn’t occurred to me that, of course, by then he was starting to lose his hair.” Teasing your partner about a minor insecurity? Kind of relatable.
Grant noted that the prince “always took any comments, intended or otherwise, in good humor.”
The former butler isn’t the only one to have brought up William’s receding hairline. In his autobiography, Spare, Prince Harry got a bit of a dig in at his brother. Recounting seeing his brother at Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021, he wrote: “I looked at Willy, really looked at him, perhaps for the first time since we were little, taking in every detail: his familiar scowl, which had always been the norm in his dealings with me,” adding William’s thinning hair was “alarming” and more “advanced” than his own. Burn.
For his part, William seems to be able to laugh at his unfortunate hairline. Speaking at an event in 2020, he joked: “I don’t know if you guys have heard about the Earthshot Prize, but it’s an initiative I started about two years ago. Now, although it’s been about four years in the making, I had hair when it started…”
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