William tells interviewer Eugene Levy of hopes to do work \u2018my son is proud of\u2019 as well as sparing him press intrusion.<\/p>\n
Prince William has said \u201cchange is on my agenda \u2013 change for the good\u201d when he becomes king.<\/p>\n
In one of his most personal interviews yet, the Prince of Wales set out his approach to the monarchy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to question things more,\u201d he told Eugene Levy at Windsor Castle in an interview for the actor\u2019s Apple TV+ series, The Reluctant Traveler.<\/p>\n
William said: \u201cI want to create a world in which my son is proud of what we do, a world and a job that actually does impact people\u2019s lives for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n
His eldest son, Prince George, who celebrated his 12th birthday in July, will one day succeed him as king.<\/p>\n
His other son, Prince Louis, is seven and his daughter, Princess Charlotte, is 10.<\/p>\n
William said his children did not have mobile phones. And he appeared to suggest that he wanted to ensure they did not face a repeat of \u201cpractices\u201d he and his brother, the Duke of Sussex, had faced when younger \u2013 a possible reference to intrusive press scrutiny that also plagued their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
William said of the \u201cinsatiable\u201d media he experienced growing up: \u201cThey wanted every bit of detail they could absorb, and they were in everything, literally everywhere. They would know things, they\u2019d be everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you let that creep in, the damage it can do to your family life is something that I vowed would never happen to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n
With regard to his change agenda, William said: \u201cI embrace that and I enjoy that change \u2013 I don\u2019t fear it. That\u2019s the bit that excites me, is the idea of being able to bring some change. Not overly radical change, but changes that I think that need to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI think it\u2019s very important that tradition stays, and tradition has a huge part in all of this. But, there\u2019s also points where you look at tradition and go: \u2018Is that still fit for purpose today? Is that still the right thing to do? Are we still doing and having the most impact we could be having?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked by Levy, star of the hit TV series Schitt\u2019s Creek, if he thought about being king, William replied: \u201cIt\u2019s not something I wake up in the morning and think about, because to me, being authentic and being myself and being genuine is what drives me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you can attach whatever labels and kind of roles that come on top of that, but if I\u2019m not true to myself, and I\u2019m not true to what I stand for and believe in \u2013 then it doesn\u2019t really matter who you are, it gets lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cI take my roles and my responsibilities seriously but it\u2019s important, like I said to you earlier, you don\u2019t feel they own you \u2013 you have to own them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William tells interviewer Eugene Levy of hopes to do work \u2018my son is proud of\u2019 as well as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-601041","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115632389573008807","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601041","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=601041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}