The Prospect of Being King and Queen Is Causing Prince William and Kate Middleton “Intense Anxiety”
Prince William and Kate Middleton are (as you might have heard!) poised to become the King and Queen of England one day. But King Charles’s health struggles have the couple anxious about the possibility of that moment coming sooner than they’d originally anticipated. (Just FYI, King Charles seems to be doing very well amid his treatment—and is even potentially set to go on an official royal trip to Australia soon.)
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, former Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Tina Brown writes, “The almost simultaneous news of Charles’s cancer has put William and Catherine in frightening proximity to ascending the throne just when they had hoped for a span of years to parent their children out of the public eye. The prospect of it, I am told, is causing them intense anxiety.”
Turns out, the Prince and Princess of Wales are under “unmanageable pressure” due to help from other family members being “scant.” Reminder: King Charles has been a long-time proponent of a slimmed-down monarchy, and as such, the number of working royals is pretty low.
Brown also notes that Kate is “the most popular member of the royal family after William” *and* that the “future of the monarchy hangs by a thread, and that thread is her.”
A tidal wave of premature responsibility is crashing in her and William’s direction,” Brown notes before adding, “Frozen, unready, and with Catherine now seriously unwell, the Prince and Princess of Wales await the awesome burden of the crown.”
Heavy is the head, etc!
