The Prince of Wales seems to be following in Prince Harry’s footsteps, according to a royal expert, as he announced his plans to modernize the Royal Family swiftly, despite the ongoing feud with his brother.
Earlier this month, Prince William made a candid admission during his visit to South Africa for his Earthshot Prize awards.
He said: “I can only describe what I’m trying to do, and that’s I’m trying to do it differently and I’m trying to do it for my generation. And to give you more an understanding around it, I’m doing it with maybe a smaller R in the royal, if you like, that’s maybe a better way of saying it.”
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Meanwhile, the Duke of Sussex revealed the challenges of life within the Firm in his memoir, Spare.
Katie Nicholl, Vanity Fair’s royal editor, told The Sun: “One person who’s probably sitting there thinking ‘this is what I’ve been saying all along’ is the Duke of Sussex. Let’s be more open, let’s show more empathy, let’s do things a little bit differently. One of the reasons Harry felt he needed to leave was because he didn’t feel he could bend the institution the way he wanted to do things. I think we have seen the royals take a leaf out of his book.”
She further stated: “It’s one thing opening up; it’s one thing seeing the King give a big hug to someone rather than just shake their hand. I think it’s modernizing at some pace, but I think it’s only now had the opportunity to do that because the late Queen’s reign was so lengthy it didn’t have the opportunity to modernize the way it is now. It can’t jump too quickly ahead of the curve, it has to keep up. It had to change. That’s the point.” reports the Express.