{"id":385558,"date":"2025-08-30T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385558\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:27:21","slug":"princess-anne-prince-williams-relationship-amid-charles-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385558\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne & Prince William’s Relationship Amid Charles’ Cancer Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that Prince William<\/a> will soon be King and things will change when he is, cannot be denied. And that will probably take some getting used to for some of the older royals, like Princess Anne<\/a>, who have been used to doing things one way for so long. The\u00a0Princess Royal<\/a>, widely regarded as the hardest-working royal, is said to be prepared to continue to do her duty. But what about her children?<\/p>\n

Royal expert Richard Palmer, in his report for\u00a0I News<\/a>, cited an insider and claimed that once Prince William<\/a> is King, the number of working royals is predicted to shrink to just five or six. That\u2019s about half of what it is now, and about a third of what it was under Queen Elizabeth. \u201cWilliam won\u2019t have cousins helping him like the Queen [Elizabeth] did. So he\u2019ll have to work smarter,\u201d one source said.<\/p>\n

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Princess Anne is expected to continue working, and both Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie are likewise expected to have prominent roles. That\u2019s the older generation stepping up and continuing with their duties. But according to Palmer, \u201cthere will be no room for their children on the taxpayer-funded payroll.\u201d That contradicts previous reports indicating William would lean on his cousins like Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.<\/p>\n

This comes after The Sunday Times<\/a> recently reported that Princess Anne was \u201cannoyed\u201d that William had not taken on more investiture ceremonies at Windsor Castle. This makes sense considering Princess Anne does the bulk of these ceremonies. And, if the monarchy is going to be slimmed down even further when he\u2019s King, then that will probably continue to be a concern of hers going forward. She\u2019s always been renowned for being hard-working, but she probably would like not to be the only one who is.<\/p>\n

A source close to Princess Anne<\/a> reportedly said, \u201cShe\u2019s still doing most of the investitures [at Windsor] even though William lives there. It annoys her.\u201d<\/p>\n

The numbers don\u2019t lie. In 2024, Princess Anne<\/a>\u00a0outnumbered absolutely every working royal when it came to royal engagements undertaken. She had 473, which was over 100 more than King Charles<\/a>, who came in second place with 372 engagements. A distant third was Prince Edward with 293. Prince William wasn\u2019t even in the top 3.<\/p>\n

However, despite these reported annoyances, William is said to have a very good relationship with his aunt\u2014unlike his relationship with his uncle, Prince Andrew. She is also said to be very supportive of him and his desire to modernize the monarchy. After she returned to work after a recent accident, the Prince and Princess of Wales shared a sweet message for her on social media that read: \u201cSuper trooper! So great to see you back so soon! W & C x\u201d.<\/p>\n

And Princess Anne, who is 75 years old, has no plans to retire anytime soon. She said in an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Press Association, \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a retirement program on this particular life. It really isn\u2019t written in, no. It isn\u2019t really an option, no, I don\u2019t think so.\u201d So it\u2019s safe to say that she\u2019ll continue to support her brother, King Charles, and she\u2019ll be around to support her nephew, Prince William, for as long as she\u2019s able.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fact that Prince William will soon be King and things will change when he is, cannot be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,5118,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-385558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-anne","15":"tag-princess-of-wales","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk-royal-family","19":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}