Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and second eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in the line of succession, behind his father, to the thrones of 16 independent states, while he resides mostly in, and is more directly involved with, the United Kingdom, the oldest of these realms.
He was educated at four schools in the United Kingdom and obtained a degree from the University of St Andrews. He spent parts of a gap year in Chile,Belize, and countries in Africa. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry – serving with his brotherPrince Harry and, two years later, earned his wings by completing pilot training at Royal Air Force College Cranwell.
On 16 November 2010 it was announced by Clarence House, his home near Buckingham Palace, that Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton are to marry. The wedding is to be held at 11am on 29 April 2011 in Westminster Abbey, London.
With less than three weeks to go until Prince William weds Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, AP Television looks at the life of Britain’s future king.
Prince William and Kate Middleton have been on a pre-wedding tour. The couple recently visited the college town where they met to thank the townspeople for keeping their relationship private while the couple prepared for public life.
Ignoring a steady rain, Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton visited northwest England to support youth charities the last trip in their pre-wedding tour of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
When Prince William and Kate Middleton return from their honeymoon they should focus their attentions on charities for children, war veterans and social welfare, a new poll has found.
Almost half of the British public think the royal couple should concentrate their philanthropic efforts on children and young people while one in three think it is important they should offer to help war veterans and the armed forces, according to the survey.
The data, collected by research company nfpSynergy, found 27% of people thought William and Kate should direct their charitable efforts to homelessness and social welfare.
William has already pledged support to a number of charities and Miss Middleton is said to be carefully selecting the charities she will support once she becomes a fully-fledged member of the royal family.
The pair decided to set up a charitable gift fund as an alternative to receiving gifts for their wedding.
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Prince William came from many nationalities of royalty like Britain and Spain and the like. At one time, our family friend’s neighbor is a direct descendant of the King of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte and his name is Herbert Benton “Ben” Connor. Connor has no immediate family.
Prince William is only 28 years old. He has many different nationalities like British, Irish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian and such. It is such an European thing to have a drop of this and a drop of that. Kate Middleton is only 29 years old as well.
For V.E.G.
I am a distant cousin of Herbert Benton Connor through his mother Susie Fontaine Conner whose mother was Susie Fontaine Glassford. I would like to know more about him.
John Glassford,
Herbert Benton Connor was a family friend’s neighbor in Oakland.
By the way, he was a director, Original Sixteen to One Mine, Inc. in Alameda. Also, he was the one time neighbor of former residents, Mike and Carol Anastasios.